adversaries

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They are harder to withdraw, more visible to allies and adversaries, and more directly tied to the defense of specific terrain.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Protecting democracies required "hard power", he said, while "theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications" would see the US lose ground to its adversaries.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

“You don’t want localities or states getting into the business of designating their enemies or their political adversaries or the people they disagree with as terrorists. That’s just not a good thing,” Sinnar said.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2026

If the U.S. keeps buying the same expensive weapons, adversaries will just challenge it with more targets, he said, and “eventually you’re going to run out.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Their authors often were adversaries of the Indians they wrote about, usually did not speak the necessary languages, and almost always had an agenda other than empathetic description of indigenous folkways.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann