After nineteen years of war, much of Somalia, including the capital, remains an open battlefield.

The Iraqi military is not expected to challenge any invasion in open battlefields.

Following this development, and coupled with the disintegration of the state institutions and the army, the country became an open battlefield.

The Tang army in several cases defeated the Korean forces on open battlefields.

In an open battlefield, the flamethrower was virtually useless because of its short range.

It's not fussed about free, open battlefields or player choice.

The Knights, finding little success in an open battlefield turned into strategic warfare.

Although central government forces defeated the Veracruz rebels on the open battlefield, they did not assault the port city.

The main tactic was the most difficult ever employed on an open battlefield.

Quickly realizing that they could neither prevail nor escape on the open battlefield, they fell back to natural and artificial defenses.