Put differently, the U.S. air campaign succeeded in blunting ISIS’ drive toward Kurdish and Shia territory by using a strategy called “hammer and anvil.” The strategy put ISIS in a catch-22: It could ...

Any good military man knows that when attacking an enemy, the "hammer and anvil" is a great battlefield maneuver. It's one in which the enemy is backed up against the "anvil" with essentially no ...

“We are caught between the hammer and the anvil,” said Ahmad al-Shafii, 69, a farmer whose cousin Hassan al-Shafii was killed by a shell on May 7 while working in his watermelon patch.

And now, the Vulcan's hammer & anvil that he used to make weapons and armor for all the gods as part of Ancient Roman myth, will be featured on a new trophy - the Hammer & Anvil Trophy - that will ...

Then, approach the Altar and examine it and the Anvil Hammer is all yours. "One of the treasures of the ruined forges. A tremendous hammer that incorporates as its head the red-hot anvil of the forge.