Battalion and Backlash were the only ones to escape a failed mission during the Gulf War, thinking the others had died (in fact they had been captured).

The player is thus spared repeated trips to a given location in order to trigger a failed mission again - an often criticized aspect of the Grand Theft Auto series.

Had Newman known that his failed mission was the cause for Saddam's decision to crush the resistance, he would have been sick.

In The Resistance, a failed mission gives definite information that at least one of the players who went on the mission is an Imperial Spy.

Its broken back suggests a failed mission; its tip, ending in a rough basin of copper sulfate, seems destined for decay.

The disgrace of his failed missions was far behind him.

Mr. Vance resigned as Secretary of State after the failed American military mission in 1980 to free Americans held hostage by Iran's revolutionary government.

This wasn't going to be a failed mission.

Somalia's history as a graveyard for failed American missions has made few in Washington eager to put Americans at risk there.

But he knows his effort is likely to be a failed mission of mercy.