Completing the totally motorized vanguard force were two score of the old heavy dreadnaughts.

Ling Tong was assigned as the leader of the vanguard force.

A British vanguard force arrived at Åndalsnes on 12 April.

A "vanguard force" of 3,000 to 3,500 U.N. troops is not expected to arrive until later in the week, at the earliest.

Attempting to pierce the enemy's center is usually costly in itself, and also exposes the vanguard force to a destructive counterstroke.

Instead, he directed his vanguard forces to make fast what they had captured and seek no further battle.

The base is destroyed by the Comet Empire's vanguard force as a prelude to invasion.

The American plan is for the Nigerians and other West Africans to act as a vanguard force in the first phase.

The vanguard force will be charged with policing those areas, representing the first tangible sign of Palestinian self-rule since Israeli independence in 1948.

Deciding they had had enough, they turned tail and ran... right into the arms of the vanguard force North had purposely positioned behind them.