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Below, we look at the current flashpoints of the roughly 640-mile front line. Kursk Ukraine captured a chunk of the Russian border region of Kursk after a daring cross-border attack in August.
Sitting on two key supply lines that feed Ukraine’s forces throughout Donetsk, the city, once home to 60,000 people, has been pummeled by Russian glide bombs. Only a sixth of the population ...
Rare is it to find a photograph showing a relaxed, almost spirited look at the Vietnam War. After the death of her friend's father, a Vietnam vet, Rennick's friend found the collection of slides ...
In the beginning of the war, large swaths of the Ukrainian defense line on the border with Russia were crossed. The front was engulfed in fast-paced maneuvering by both sides as part of the Kyiv Offensive and related efforts in the Northern Ukraine campaign, [3] until Russian advances stalled, and both sides started to dig in mid-2022. [4]
The De Lattre Line, named after General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, was a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapons installations constructed by the French around the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam.
An official account of the Vietnam War, published in the Secretaries of Defense Historical Series, stated that the interdiction significance of the barrier remained contentious. [3]: 536 At the same time, it reserved harsh words for McNamara's inability to listen to the opponents and called the so-called McNamara Line: [3]: 178
After a year dug in among a heavily fortified front line in order to push back Kyiv’s counteroffensive efforts, the Institute for the Study of War think-tank suggests Russia is now launching ...
The North Vietnamese front line was now just 26 mi (42 km) from downtown Saigon. [33] The victory at Xuân Lộc, which had drawn many South Vietnamese troops away from the Mekong Delta area, [33] opened the way for PAVN to encircle Saigon, and they soon did so, moving 100,000 troops in position around the city by 27 April. With the ARVN having ...