Enemy line

The approach at Trafalgar was from the windward, but Vice Admiral [Cuthbert] Collingwood did order his division to deploy in line of bearing so that the enemy line would be cut in many places, and engaged from the other side, or both sides.

Once the two fleets had met, it was then likely, if not inevitable, that only some of the attacking fleet would make it through the enemy line.

With this assault they drive back the thin enemy line, pressing forward through the disordered enemy.

The aviation service can, in two hours, go 100 miles back of enemy lines and return, bringing important information.

As we Christians serve our Lord and Master in this world, we are living and working behind enemy lines.

There are, however, other practitioners of magic in the cycle that have no concern for God or for the good; the genealogy of this enemy knowledge is clear, and serves as a memorable cautionary tale. For Merlin himself founds this enemy line by dint of a horrendous pedagogical error: victim of the entirely natural magic of falling in love, Merlin teaches Vivian "tel cose quil ne uaut onques a autrui ensegnier", thus signing his own death warrant.

Within these (fictional) enemy lines—on the model perhaps of the "amity lines" described by Carl Schmitt—there could emerge the following questions: What is an enemy? Does the term "enemy" gather (or disseminate) a multiplicity of enemies (for the senses of "enemy" are just as many as its figures, as Aristotle would perhaps say)?

We battle through life to get to God's promise for us. The devil frustrates our effort in that regard, because he knows that if you manage to cross the Red Sea and battle the enemy behind, after you climb the mountains, you will have made it to the Promised Land. So why would he make it that easy for you? he thinks. But there's no good reason to hand him over the victory by staying behind the enemy line after you've been rescued.