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Definition of Firebases
1. firebase [n] - See also: firebase
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firebases
Literary usage of Firebases
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Firepower in Limited War by Robert H. Scales, Jr. (1990)
"After Tet, however, firebases became the object of a carefully directed, systematic
program of attack. Giap's objective was to maintain the initiative by ..."
2. Air Power and the Ground War in Vietnam: Ideas and Actions by Donald J. Mrozek (1988)
"Firepower and firebases What air power allowed General Westmoreland to think
possible in the ground war was exemplified by the defense of the firebase at ..."
3. Military Ethics: Reflections on Principles: Profession of Arms, Mil. Leader edited by Malham M. Wakin (1987)
"We had our "cities" our towns, firebases, and outposts. We were civilization,
urban power, men, might, fortitude, power, and directness: all self-contained ..."
4. Genocide in Iraq: The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds by George Black (1993)
"Like the civilian population of the surrounding villages, they learned to live
with constant artillery shelling from a half-dozen government firebases ..."
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