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Ambuscade:
Storm the ghosts in ambuscade - Jean Ingelow "Scholar and Carpenter"

Empty upon the earth from unsuspected ambuscade - Rudyard Kipling "The Necessitarian"

An ambuscade of lights - Francis Thompson "New Year's Chimes"

For the ambuscade of drifting isle on lifting seas - Humbert Wolfe "The Silver Cat"

Ambush.

Archery:
Against the obstinate archery of light - Emanuel Morgan "Opus 63"

Armada:
That proud armadas' trampled shards - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"

Nobody needs your damn armada - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

Armada of the sky - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"

Beyond the wrecked armadas - Humbert Wolfe "England"

Armaments:
Accumulating stars and armaments - Pablo Neruda "Do Not Ask Me" transl. by Miguel Algarin

Arsenal.

Banner.

Barracks:
The black hole in the barracks - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 2. A Constable Calls"

Barrage:
The creeping barrage of occupation - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

Rippling through the barrage of bubbles - Emma E. Murray "Drowning Machine"

Barricade.

Bastion.

Battlement.

Belligerent.

Brandish.

Breach.

Bulwark.

Butcher.

Camouflage.

Casualties:
Tally the casualties of war - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"

a war always claims casualties - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"

Cavalcade:
The avenue with its cavalcade of trucks - Rosa Alcala "You Rode a Loop"

That radiant cavalcade - Anna Hempstead Branch “While Loveliness Goes By”

Giant cavalcades of marshalled Doom - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"

In nodding cavalcade advancing - Walter de la Mare "The Unchanging"

Cavalier:
To be so cavalier with their bliss - Kaveh Akbar "What Seems Like Joy"

La Mancha's cavalier reposes - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Chariot.

Citadel.

Convoy:
A convoy of suspended shadows - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Crossfire:
Another halo to shake loose galloping into the crossfire - Kaveh Akbar "I Wouldn't Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance"

Dreadnought:
Sees the dreadnaughts scouring every main - Vachel Lindsay "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"

The foeman's dreadnoughts ride - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"

Old maid or dreadnought - Kiki Petrosino "Doubloon Oath"

This dreadnought wreck cut loose - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Fort.

Fortify.

Fortress.

Galley:
Galleys miss appointments with the tides - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

Those shining galleys of the stars - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

Galleys waiting for the gale - George Santayana "A Hermit of Carmel"

Gilded galley-slaves of Mammon - Robert W. Service "The Rhyme of the Remittance Man"

Garrison:
Strange garrisons of emerald-mailed chameleons - Harold Acton "When Frigates from Long Voyages ..."

And garrisoned with Amazons invincible - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of Seven Cities"

Outposts of the lunar garrison - Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro "Agathè--A Necromaunt in Three Chimeras I" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.1, Jan. 1842]

Militant:
Into this milieu of militant affection - Joy Priest "The Black Outside"

Oriflamme/Oriflame:
Golden oriflames and tents of pearl - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"

Bearing Lucifer's oriflamme - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"

The rose shall be my oriflamme - John Oxenham "The Word that Was Left Unsaid"

Palisade.

Rampart.

Rebel/Rebellion/Rebellious.

Revolt.

Revolution.

Revolutionary.

Ricochet:
Ricocheting towards each other - Ken Chen "Brief Lives: Descartes in Love" [excerpts]

Deflecting the ricochet against that anarchy of dusk - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"

The sun ricocheting off the sea - Jon Pineda "Cinque Terre"

A ricochet from a sea surge - Charles Wright "Outscape"

Shellshock:
Shellshocked at needing anyone - Marilyn Hacker "Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]"

Still too shell shocked to understand - John Trudell "Baby Boom Che"

Stockade:
The stockade and the bastioned gate - Laura Da' "The Honest Tongue"

Strategy/Strategem.

Tactic:
Runs on tactical forgiveness - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"

Van.


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