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Definition of Firefights
1. firefight [n] - See also: firefight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firefights
Literary usage of Firefights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scenes from an Unfinished War: Low-Intensity Conflict in Korea, 1966-1969 by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"... Appendix 4 Significant US-KPA firefights, November 1966—December 1969 2 Nov
66 US 2d Infantry Division patrol (1-23 Infantry) ambushed south of DMZ. ..."
2. Surviving Twilight: A Soldier's Chronicle of Daily Life in Iraq by Shane A. Bernskoetter (2005)
"Death, killing, bombs and firefights had all been introduced to me today. ...
After repeated firefights originating from the market area just across the ..."
3. Dollars and Sense of Command and Control by Raymond C. Bjorklund (1995)
"With the possible exception of one-on-one firefights or wholesale nuclear exchanges
of the scope of Armageddon, the outcome of wargames—that is, ..."
4. Entangled Allies: U.S. Policy Toward Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus by Monteagle Stearns (1992)
"... benefits to be derived from NATO-sponsored negotiations of this kind would be
the opportunity they provided to reduce the occurrence of flash firefights ..."
5. Airlift Doctrine by Charles Edward Miller (1988)
"... Seven firefights in Vietnam (Washington. DC: Office of the Chief of Military
History, United States Army. 1970). 71. Bowers, Tactical Airlift. 209-15. ..."
6. The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa by Joseph H. Alexander (1996)
"The convoluted topography of ridges, draws, and escarpments served to compartment
the battlefield into scores of small firefights, while the general absence ..."
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