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What (who) is Ambush - definition

MILITARY TACTICS TO ATTACK THE ENEMY BY SURPRISE
Ambushes; Ambuscade; Sneak attack; Military Surprise
  • US Army idealised linear ambush plan
  • The [[Bắc Lệ ambush]]: French marine infantry deploy beneath the [[Nui Đồng Nai]] cliffs in 1884
  • Zulu attack]] on a [[Boer]] camp in February 1838
  • ambushed and decimated]] by the French and Indians in 1755
  • partisans]] during the [[January Uprising]]
  • Massacre of Elphinstone's army]] during the [[First Anglo-Afghan War]] in 1842

ambush         
¦ noun a surprise attack by people lying in wait in a concealed position.
¦ verb attack from a concealed position.
Origin
ME: from OFr. embusche (n.), embuschier (v.), based on a late L. word meaning 'to place in a wood'; related to bush1.
AMBUSH         
<language> A language for linear programming problems in a materials processing and transportation network. ["AMBUSH - An Advanced Model Builder for Linear Programming", T.R. White et al, National Petroleum Refiners Assoc Comp Conf (Nov 1971)]. (1995-06-19)
ambush         
(ambushes, ambushing, ambushed)
1.
If a group of people ambush their enemies, they attack them after hiding and waiting for them.
The Guatemalan army says rebels ambushed and killed 10 patrolmen.
VERB: V n
2.
An ambush is an attack on someone by people who have been hiding and waiting for them.
A policeman has been shot dead in an ambush.
N-VAR
3.
If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
The gunmen, lying in ambush, opened fire, killing the driver.
PHRASE: PHR after v

Wikipedia

Ambush

An ambush is a long-established military tactic in which a combatant uses an advantage of concealment or the element of surprise to attack unsuspecting enemy combatants from concealed positions, such as among dense underbrush or behind mountaintops. Ambushes have been used consistently throughout history, from ancient to modern warfare. In the 20th century, an ambush might involve thousands of soldiers on a large scale, such as over a choke point such as a mountain pass, or a small irregulars band or insurgent group attacking a regular armed force patrols. Theoretically, a single well-armed and concealed soldier could ambush other troops in a surprise attack. Sometimes an ambush can involve the exclusive or combined use of improvised explosive devices, that allow the attackers to hit enemy convoys or patrols while minimizing the risk of being exposed to return fire.

Examples of use of Ambush
1. Sunday‘s ambush outraged an already frustrated public.
2. Enemy fighters watched invisibly, plotting their ambush.
3. Ambush Meanwhile on Thursday, seven Pakistani troops were killed and 22 wounded in an ambush in the North Waziristan tribal region.
4. "Niyonsaba died in a road traffic accident not an ambush; there are no ambush cases in the area where the Rwandan contingent is operating," Karamba told the press.
5. He said the Taliban had meticulously planned the ambush.