Overwatch : noun (military); manoeuvre whereby a well-equipped professional army of 4,000 troops sits on a fortified air-base while, in the city four miles down the road, its allies (which it had previously trained) are engaged in a bitter battle with an assortment of militias which that army had apparently left in charge of the city.
Strategic and tactical considerations underlying overwatch : beats me ... they might as well be sitting in the UK.
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