The victory by the US-led coalition forces in the 1991 Persian Gulf War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, demonstrated that training, tactics and technology can provide overwhelming victories in the field of battle during modern conventional warfare.

The invasion of Southern France had demonstrated that large scale daylight airborne operations were feasible.

According to Hawksley, these demonstrated that the Colonial Office ' influenced the actions of those in South Africa ' who embarked on the Raid, and even that Chamberlain had transferred control of the Pitsani Strip to facilitate an invasion.

* Belfort had demonstrated heroic resistance, under Colonel Pierre Denfert-Rochereau, to the German invasion.

The B-Team demonstrated that it was possible to construct a sharply different view of Soviet motivation from the consensus view of the analysts and one that provided a much closer fit to the Soviets ' observed behavior ( and also provided a much better forecast of subsequent behavior up to and through the invasion of Afghanistan ).

The invasion of Okinawa had demonstrated the value of establishing secure anchorages close at hand, for ships not needed off the landing beaches and for ships damaged by air attack.

Even though Streltsy demonstrated their fighting efficiency on several occasions, such as the siege of Kazan in 1552, the war with Livonia, the Polish-Swedish invasion in the early 17th century and military operations in Poland and Crimea, in the second half of the 17th century Streltsy started to display their backwardness compared to the regular soldier or reiter regiments ( see Regiments of the new type ).

On the following morning three armed natives demonstrated their anger at the ' invasion ' ( Stirling's word ) of their territory with violent gestures, but eventually retired.

Regarding the Osirak attack, Roberts noted that at the time, few legal scholars argued in support of the Israeli attack but notes further that, “ subsequent events demonstrated the perspicacity of the Israelis, and some scholars have re-visited that attack arguing that it was justified under anticipatory self-defense .” Following the U. S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, American forces captured a number of documents detailing conversations that Sadaam Hussein had with his inner sanctum.

He owned over 18, 000 coins and medals, and was also an archaeologist, amateur artist, historian ( he demonstrated that Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain set out not from Calais but from St Omer ), Egyptologist, botanist, zoologist ( studying chameleons, crocodiles, the elephant and the alzaron, a sort of Nubian gazelle with a bull-like head, now disappeared ), physiologist, geographer ( put on the project of linking Aix to Marseilles ), and ecologist.

Charles VIII's invasion of Italy in 1494 demonstrated the potency of siege artillery ; but in this region by the early years of the 16th century there were beginning to emerge fortifications which had been designed specifically to resist artillery bombardment.

As Corbett demonstrated, this means that the conditions for the ideal limited war exist only in maritime warfare and can only be exploited by the preponderant naval power: “ Limited war is only permanently possible to island Powers or between Powers which are separated by sea, and then only when the Power desiring limited war is able to command the sea to such a degree as to be able not only to isolate the distant object, but also to render impossible the invasion of his home territory .”

The Iraq invasion is often used as one of the key incidents that provoked major states to rethink their own security and resort to soft balancing against the unipole since it proved not simply a strategy aimed at stopping proliferation of nuclear weapons by rogue states but rather a challenge to the norm of territorial integrity – an aggressive U. S. intervention into a region outside of its own that demonstrated the U. S. commitment to taking any necessary actions to assure that their superiority and primacy is not challenged by anyone.

Powell argued that the existence of separate nuclear weapons for France and Britain demonstrated that they believed that the United States would not risk a nuclear war over Western Europe, and that therefore they were " victims to their own reasoning " as neither France nor Britain would themselves use nuclear weapons in the event of an invasion because the consequences of nuclear war would be too horrific.

Coulter asserted that Canada's non-participation in the 2003 invasion of Iraq demonstrated that Canada's " loyal friendship " with the United States was weaker than in the past.

He survived the Soviet leadership's transition from Khrushchev to Brezhnev in 1964, and in 1968 again demonstrated his loyalty to the Soviet Union by taking a formal part in the invasion of Czechoslovakia ; that is, he sent a limited number of troops for attendance but not for actually taking part in the bringing down of the Prague Spring.

The clear and consistent use of infiltrated fifth column forces to sabotage, undermine, and prepare a target country for take over was demonstrated in the German invasions of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, and Denmark in Europe, and Japan's invasion of Manchuria, China, Korea, and French Indochina in Asia.

In the great mixed invasion of 406, the Alemanni appear to have crossed the Rhine river a final time, conquering and then settling what is today Alsace and a large part of the Swiss Plateau.

After the huge Spiderdemon that masterminded the invasion is destroyed in the final mission, a hidden doorway back to Earth opens for the hero, who has " proven too tough to be contained ".

Following the Allied invasion of Normandy ( June 1944 ), the German army was pushed back on all fronts until the final collapse in May 1945.

John hoped to exploit this advantage by invading himself late in 1213, but baronial discontent again delayed his invasion plans until early 1214, in what would prove to be his final Continental campaign.

In May 1934, a final peace agreement was signed, resulting in the return of Leticia to Colombia, a formal apology from Peru for the 1932 invasion, demilitarization of the area around Leticia, free navigation on the Amazon and Putumayo Rivers, and a pledge of non-aggression.

The Battle of Lake Champlain, also known as the Battle of Plattsburgh, fought on September 11, 1814, ended the final British invasion of the northern states during the War of 1812.

Ultimately Kievan Rus ' disintegrated, with the final blow being the Mongol invasion of 1237 – 40, that resulted in the destruction of Kiev and the death of about half the population of Rus '.

* Nicomedia in northwestern Asia Minor ( modern Izmit in Turkey ), a base for defence against invasion from the Balkans and Persia's Sassanids was the capital of Diocletian, the eastern ( and most senior ) Augustus ; in the final reorganisation by Constantine the Great, in 318, the equivalent of his domain, facing the most redoubtable foreign enemy, Sassanid Persia, became the pretorian prefecture Oriens ' the East ', the core of later Byzantium.

* 1286 – Kublai Khan plots a final Mongol invasion of Japan, but aborts the plan due to a lack of necessary resources.

* Kublai Khan plots a final Mongol invasion of Japan, but aborts the plan due to a lack of necessary resources.

The First War of Scottish Independence can be loosely divided into four phases: the initial English invasion and success in 1296 ; the campaigns led by William Wallace, Andrew de Moray and various Scottish Guardians from 1297 until John Comyn negotiated for the general Scottish submission in February 1304 ; the renewed campaigns led by Robert the Bruce following his killing of The Red Comyn in Dumfries in 1306 to his and the Scottish victory at Bannockburn in 1314 ; and a final phase of Scottish diplomatic initiatives and military campaigns in Scotland, Ireland and Northern England from 1314 until the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton in 1328.

From this point the Bactrians tend to disappear from the historical record, a disappearance made final by the Arab invasion of the 8th century AD.

Most observers expected Chiang's government to eventually fall in response to a Communist invasion of Taiwan, and the United States initially showed no interest in supporting Chiang's government in its final stand.

The Master sought to correct that impression, first, by discussing the Roman invasion, and then by commenting on his final coming to render universal judgment.

The final military dictator, Manuel Noriega, had been belligerent toward the USA culminating in the killing of a US Marine Lieutenant and US invasion ordered by President, George H. W. Bush.

He sends her out as the final resort to report on the invasion of an alien race called the Morolians ( モロ星人-Moro Seijin ).

The third and final phase started on June 6, 1944 with the invasion of Normandy on the D-Day of Operation Overlord, when an Allied force consisting of American British and Canadian Army Groups ( with units from many other nations ), successfully gained a beach head in Normandy in northern France.

Nearchus had a place in Alexander ’ s final plans, as he was to be the admiral of the Arabian invasion fleet ; but the plans were cut short by the king ’ s death.

In 1277 Edward I launched a final invasion of the remaining native Welsh strongholds in North Wales, intending to establish his rule over the region on a permanent basis.

Recalled to England to help defend against a threatened invasion by the French, de Gray then travelled to Rome to secure a papal pardon after the final settlement of John and Innocent's dispute over the bishop's abortive elevation to Canterbury.

One of de Gray's final acts as justiciar was to take a force of Irish knights to England to help repel a threatened invasion by the French king, Philip Augustus.

A final golf party near the Belgian coast occurred in May, 1940, shortly before the Nazi invasion of Belgium.

In 479 BC Plataea was the site of the final battle that repelled the second Persian invasion of Greece.

The Battle of Plattsburgh, also known as the Battle of Lake Champlain, ended the final invasion of the northern states during the War of 1812.