# Offensive action

" The Viet Cong's best-known action was the Tet Offensive, a massive assault on more than 100 South Vietnamese urban centers in 1968, including an attack on the US embassy in Saigon.

In 1917, he saw action at Passchendaele and Cambrai, and in 1918 participated in resistance to the Ludendorff Offensive and the following allied counter-offensive.

This action occurred during the U. S .- led portion of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France, which was part of a broader Allied offensive masterminded by Marshal Ferdinand Foch to breach the Hindenburg line and make the opposing German forces surrender.

The 1st Light Horse saw action at the Chessboard on 7 August while the 3rd Light Horse Brigade fought at the Nek during the August Offensive.

He returned to France in 1918, and was killed in action on 25 March during the Spring Offensive ; his body was never recovered.

Painter was a part of the Battery D the 115th Artillery Battalion and saw action at the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and hauled ammunition and artillery supplies including field guns.

He saw action in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

He discovers that a subversive action group, using the acronym THOR ( Tactical Helicopter Offensive Response, the " proposed use of military helicopters to quell disorder "), is intending instead to use Blue Thunder to carry out an evil mission of their own, one that involves the secret elimination of political undesirables.

He was a 27-year-old corporal, and in action on 8 August 1918 at Demuin, France, on the opening day of the Battle of Amiens, the first day of the Hundred Days Offensive.

During World War I, Hoge received the Distinguished Service Cross personally from General John J. Pershing for heroic action under fire as a battalion commander in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

It fought in the Autumn Offensive, seeing their first action during the Battles of Gaza.

Following a period out of the line providing the guard force for General Headquarters at Montreuil, they joined the 28th Brigade of the 9th ( Scottish ) Division and were in action again at Ledegem and beyond in the advances of the Hundred Days Offensive during which Thomas Ricketts became the youngest soldier of the war to win the Victoria Cross.

They first went into action in March 1918, and proved very useful to cover the flight of the infantry divisions recoiling from the German onslaught during the Spring Offensive.

The Corps ' first serious action was in the Somme Offensive of 1916, on the first day of which it carried out a disastrous diversionary attack at Gommecourt, in which 46th Division suffered 2455 casualties, and 56th Division 4313, for no permanent gain.

Offensive, mass, and maneuver principles for the western commander all place a sense of personal responsibility and authority to ensure these principles are followed by appropriate action.

Offensive action is the most effective and decisive way to attain a clearly defined common objective.

Offensive operations are the means by which a military force seizes and holds the initiative while maintaining freedom of action and achieving decisive results.

12 Nov 68, age 21 ), Fredric B. Davis ( Class of 1965, wounded in action during the 1968 Tet Offensive he died on 14 Jan 73 after being in a coma for several years, age 25 ), Alvin " John " Wesolowski ( member of the Class of 1965 though he transferred to Homestead High School prior to graduation, K. I. A.

The Army's final action in Europe was the East Prussian Offensive of 1945.

Called into action against the Germans during the Kerensky Offensive, they were assigned to the 525th Kiuruk-Darinski Regiment and occupied an abandoned trench near Smorgon.

Instinctively, Banda Bahadur adopted the vital principles of war-Surprise Flexibility, Offensive action and Concentration of Force at a point to gain local superiority.

Ravenstein entered the First World War as a battalion adjutant officer and saw considerable action on the Western Front, participating in the battles of Verdun, the Somme, and the Champagne Offensive.

* 1918 – World War I: The Battle of the Lys – the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted ; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.

* Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty ( SORT or Moscow Treaty )— signed 2002, into force 2003: A very loose treaty that is often criticized by arms control advocates for its ambiguity and lack of depth, Russia and the United States agreed to reduce their " strategic nuclear warheads " ( a term that remain undefined in the treaty ) to between 1, 700 and 2, 200 by 2012.

* May 9 – WWI: The Nivelle Offensive is abandoned.

* February 24 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted ; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.

" ( 2 months later the Tet Offensive by the Viet Cong makes it appear, to those watching news reports, that progress is not being made.

The Indonesian attack, later known in Indonesia as Serangan Oemoem ( new spelling: Serangan Umum ' 1 March General Offensive '), is commemorated by a large monument in Yogyakarta.

His unit is shipped out to Europe and participates in an attack during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

Offensive strategy is fairly straight forward, revolving around hitting the ball to let the batter reach base safely and to advance the base runners towards home plate to score runs.

He served as the Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach for the LSU Tigers football team from 2000 – 2006 and is currently the head coach of the Florida State Seminoles football team.

Possession of this spray by persons other than Gardaí is an offense under the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act, as the spray is legally classed as a firearm.

In the state of Tasmania, possession of pepper spray by unauthorized persons is illegal, under an amendment of the Police Offences Act 1935, being classified as an, " Offensive weapon ".

* Joshua Kurlantzick, Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World ( Yale University Press, 2007 ).

In Vietnamese, the offensive is called Cuộc Tổng tiến công và nổi dậy (" General Offensive and Uprising "), or Tết Mậu Thân ( Tet, year of the monkey ).

:# Offensive Counterespionage is the set of techniques that, at a minimum, neutralizes discovered FIS personnel and arrests them or, in the case of diplomats, expels them by declaring them persona non grata.

Offensive counterespionage is the most powerful tool for finding penetrators and neutralizing them, but it is not the only tool.

* In the MMORPG Guild Wars the Necromancer class is capable of summoning Undead creatures, the Ritualist class is capable of summoning spirits, both Offensive and Defensive and the Ranger class is capable of summoning spirits which affect an area's players ( both hostile and allied ) around them.

The big September / October Allied breakthroughs ( north, centre and south ) across the length of the Hindenburg Line-including the Battle of the Argonne Forest-are now lumped together as part of what is generally remembered as the Grand Offensive ( also known as the Hundred Days Offensive ) by the Allies on the Western front.

The Grand Offensive, including British, French and Belgian advances in the north along with the French-American advances around the Argonne forest, is in turn credited for leading directly to the Armistice on November 11.