An armored thrust would be made at al-Qusmaya to preoccupy and isolate its garrison.

Many mingled with civilians caught up in the unexpected armored thrust.

The Egyptian armored thrust suffered heavy losses.

Arab armies would then invade Israel, and cut it in half with an armored thrust through the Negev.

For a mile on either side of the armored thrust, Swedish pikemen and arquebusiers were launching a massive charge.

Another would employ armored thrusts to attack key headquarters or use light infantry to raid government command centers and other key targets.

This small corridor between the 1st and the 104th Division was one of the few places suitable for an armored thrust.

There followed an armored thrust by two Pakistani armored divisions.

Despite a wide armored thrust to envelop the enemy defenses, it took nine days of intense fighting to bring Heilbronn fully under American control.

The result was that the mechanized column's armored thrust was rapidly blunted.