[Travis McGee]

Didn’t they drum into our heads to assault through an ambush?

[skeeter]

From a JM Berger interview with Blogcritics:

Bernard Goldberg has brought up the subject and I will here too. Is there a liberal bias in the media?

The "liberal bias" of the media is the greatest achievement of conservative politics. It's a lie so successful that the media has begun censoring itself in order to "refute" it. This leads to situations like the New York Times allowing itself to be manipulated into propagating outright lies about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction which politically favor a conservative president's agenda, while a Democratic president can be dragged into impeachment for sexual misdemeanors with an intern. If there is any bias in the media, it's a conservative bias because cowardly journalists now feel the need to constantly re-examine and revisit simple facts when those facts displease conservatives. Liberals get no such consideration.

'Nuff said, I think.

Read more: http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/an-interview-with-journalist-jm-berger/page-2/#ixzz1rxswAp14

[The Shrew]

Didn’t they drum into our heads to assault through an ambush?

I thought it was if you're attack was going well it WAS an ambush! Besides assaulting is all tankers know HOW to do.

[familyop]

"Didn’t they drum into our heads to assault through an ambush?"

A near ambush, yes. For far ambush: lift, shift, flank, or something else that would work given scenario, terrain, etc.

[familyop]

Near ambush: run through as fast as possible while firing.