Citations:zero line

English citations of zero line

the front line, the border where opposing forces meet and fight

• 2018 December 24, Happymon Jacob, Line on Fire: Ceasefire Violations and India–Pakistan Escalation Dynamics, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

  A major escalation in August 2013 began with five Indian soldiers, four from the 21 Bihar Regiment and one from the [...] wearing army uniform, according to senior Indian Army officials, it was an ambush laid near the zero line by a BAT […]

in particular, the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, in a military context

• 2011 February 22, Elizabeth Gould, Paul Fitzgerald, Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire, City Lights Books, →ISBN, page 26:

  the breakup and seizure of Afghanistan and on November 21, 1878, sent a hastily assembled army of 35,000 British soldiers across the Zero line at three locations, seizing the Khyber pass, Kandahar and Jalalabad.

• 2010 April 12, Seth G. Jones, In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 310:

  ... escalating tensions along the border—often referred to as the “zero line” by U.S. military and CIA forces. During a June 10 firefight, U.S. forces killed about a dozen Pakistani Frontier Corps soldiers who were targeting them.

• 2010 11, Royce Flippin, Best American Political Writing 2009 (Large Print 16pt), ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 410:

  The firefight was taking place right on the border itself, known in military jargon as the “zero line.” Afghanistan was on one side, and the remote Pakistani region known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, or FATA, […]

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• 1972, Soviet Military Thought, page 173:

  Pursuit is conducted in march or approach-march formation (or in combat formation). [...] in determining the coordinates of the point where the launcher is located, and the bearing angles of the zero line and the control line.

• 2016 September 2, Philip Jobson, Royal Artillery: Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations: Historical and Modern, The History Press, →ISBN:

  A personal identification number made up from the first 2 letters of a soldiers surname and the last 4 digits of his/her army number. ... The guns were oriented relative to the zero line, which could be different for every battery.