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"Space control encapsulates the mission areas required to contest and control the space domain -- employing kinetic and non-kinetic means to affect adversary capabilities," the statement said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

For decades he was Washington’s most tenacious adversary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

"When the president travels to war zones, there are frequently tactics and techniques used to create doubt in an adversary of which aircraft or which movement that he's going to make," he added.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

The Strait of Hormuz is, by some accounts, named for a Zoroastrian deity destined to emerge victorious after a 9,000-year standoff with an adversary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

But he could not strike out blindly now; death was a different and bigger adversary.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

Every time he does, he has adversaries in Moscow and Tehran smiling at their good luck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

“Deterrence is never static. It’s what our adversaries are doing that drives us to push us forward,” Williams said in an interview.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

A crisis may create opportunities for adversaries elsewhere, increasing pressure on finite inventories of weapons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Created during the Cold War, that system was designed to prevent sensitive technology from reaching adversaries or unauthorized third parties and to give Washington oversight of how U.S. weapons were used abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The opening section of his speech also goes on the attack, fulfilling Ad Herennium’s rather gleeful injunction to use this section to “make our adversaries unpopular.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith