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quick and decisive
The word, meaning " lightning war ", in its strategic means is associated with a series of quick and decisive short battles to deliver a knockout blow to an enemy state before it could fully mobilize.
In 19th century Europe, the length of civil wars fell significantly, largely due to the nature of the conflicts as battles for the power center of the state, the strength of centralized governments, and the normally quick and decisive intervention by other states to support the government.
The deep battle doctrine relies upon aviation and armor advances in the hope that maneuver warfare offers quick, efficient, and decisive victory.
" Although he hoped for a quick, decisive battle, Grant was prepared to fight a war of attrition.
" Although he hoped for a quick, decisive battle, Grant was prepared to fight a war of attrition.
In those games, making decisive pushes, quick moves for cover, strategic retreats, and last ditch grabs at the gold are not only important to success, but balanced in such a way that they become enjoyable activities in play.
While Shastri preferred peace with Pakistan, writing to a friend after the Indo-Pakistani War in 1965 that the problems between both countries should be settled amicably, he had previously displayed a knack for taking quick and decisive actions during the war.
The Spanish-American War was a short decisive war marked by quick, overwhelming American victories at sea and on land against Spain.
The United States Ambassador to Laos, Winthrop G. Brown, responded to General Phoumi by stating that the United States supported a restoration of peace “ through quick and decisive action .”
They concluded that the Saigon government and the U. S. presence were so unpopular with the population of the South that a broad-based attack would spark a spontaneous uprising of the population, which, if the offensive was successful, would enable the communists to sweep to a quick, decisive victory.
This was the last and decisive battle that was necessary for a quick end of the war, even though it is speculated that the fortress would have fallen eventually due to starvation.
The Jassy – Kishinev Offensive, launched on 20 August 1944, resulted in a quick and decisive Soviet breakthrough, collapsing the German-Romanian front in the region.
In the early days of the Civil War, Wool's quick and decisive moves secured Fort Monroe, Virginia, for the Union.
A quick decisive victory in Yemen could help him recover leadership of the Arab world.
He had been appointed to this post to quell the Boxer Uprising in the province and to reassure the foreign diplomats in the country who were looking for quick decisive actions against the boxers.
A quick and decisive victory over the Soviet Union was expected by mid-November.
Also, the encirclement and annihilation of the Austrian infantry and the quick and decisive manner in which this battle played out is also often likened to Bewegungskrieg, or more commonly known as Blitzkrieg.
After a quick and decisive campaign, his forces defeated the caudillos that opposed the government.
" Napoleon often attempted to wage decisive, quick campaigns so that he could allow his men to live off the land.
His intention of engaging the British Royal Navy in a quick, decisive battle was not supported by the German admiralty.
" Although he hoped for a quick, decisive battle, Grant was prepared to fight a war of attrition.
Due to his appointment as Georgia ’ s Representative to the UN during the 2008 conflict between Georgia and Russia over South Ossetia, Alasania was the Georgian government ’ s key negotiator with the UN Security Council and voiced the need for quick and decisive UN and international pressure on Russia to end the conflict.
But the meltdown was quick and decisive, with Schumer's ads relentlessly driving the message of D ' Amato's dishonesty and dislikeability.
The bloody battle was decisive and quick.

quick and defeat
) The result, as the game's official rules note, is that it " very often happens that a quick witted player alone may defeat several others.
Ultimately, due to the quick thinking by the families in Goochland, Wise was able to warn forces in Richmond and defeat Dahlgren's raid.
In round fifteen, Hearns seemed to think he had the decision secured, and Benitez seemed to imagine he needed a knockout to win, so Hearns proceeded to use his jab for three more minutes and Benitez tried to avoid defeat by throwing quick combinations onto Hearns ' face to see if he could find the punch that would finally lay down The Hitman for good.
The German defeat and subsequent retreat ended any hopes of a quick victory for Germany in the West.
Returning to the ring in 2001 he scored a quick win over Michael Sprott and then followed this up with a defeat of Otis Tisdale in 2002.
Algerian Muslims rallied to the French side at the start of World War II as they had done in World War I. Nazi Germany's quick defeat of France, however, and the establishment of the collaborationist Vichy regime, to which the colons were generally sympathetic, not only increased the difficulties of the Muslims but also posed an ominous threat to the Jews in Algeria.
The Eighth Army would be expected to hold out against significantly larger Russian forces until it could be reinforced by troops coming from the west after the expected quick defeat of France, in accordance with the Schlieffen Plan, which would guide German forces in the opening phase of a war in which Germany faced both France and Russia.
The fact that Cao Cao's army recovered so quick after the defeat at Red Cliffs was partly due to Xiahou Yuan's timely transport of materials.
The match was followed by a large, but relatively harmless, pitch invasion by the jubilant Scottish fans, who were quick to jokingly declare Scotland the ' World Champions ', as the game was England's first defeat since winning the World Cup.
There is a flipside to this: Computron's main problem is that every problem must be worked out to every conceivable solution ; even with Computron's enhanced computers, this is a time-consuming task, which for example led to his quick defeat by Abominus ( another Decepticon Combiner ) around the time of the Hate Plague.
This forced the player to think tactically and defeat their enemies as quick and efficiently as possible.
Expecting a quick and total defeat ( since their standing army is tiny and equipped with bows and arrows ), the country confidently expects to rebuild itself through the generous largesse that the United States bestows on all its vanquished enemies ( as it did for Germany through the Marshall Plan at the end of World War II ).
Reynolds believed that he would be able to defeat Jackson and clear the mountain for a quick route to Virginia.
If a phalanx failed to do this in a structured manner the opposing phalanx would have an opportunity to breach the line which, many times, would lead to a quick defeat.
However, a quick defeat of the rebels in Ireland was prevented by the outbreak of Civil War in England in mid to late 1642.
Following the start of the Second World War and the quick defeat of Poland in September 1939, the threat of an Axis Powers attack from the Balkans against British positions in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean region became a serious possibility.
This resulted in the rapid defeat of the Foundation fleets, the fall of Terminus to the Mule, the quick fall of the trader-world Haven, and eventually all Independent Traders.
However, Iowa's playoff run would come to a quick end on a Sunday afternoon in the quarterfinals, as sixth-seeded Nashville would score the final 14 points to defeat Iowa, 49-42.
Kiyo's high intelligence and quick decision making makes him an excellent tactician which allowed Zatch to defeat Mamodos much stronger than Zatch.
However, once war broke out, the quick military defeat of the French Army caused much disillusion across Europe.
An old French bastion fort, it was the site of the 17 November 1915 overwhelming and quick defeat of the Haitian rebel force called the Cacos.
Following the defeat of the Schmalkaldic League at Mühlberg, Charles V ’ s forces took and occupied the Lutheran territories in quick succession.

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