SURROUNDING THEM ! they came from every direction so there was no escaping .
Attacked is the action verb in the sentence, "The enemy attacked the headquarters."
Of course they can.
Yes, they did, but wrongly so according to the huge walls they built around their cities. But they were attacked and their land was taken over.
When the enemy gets a nuke
The Assyrians tortured those that they conquered. They flayed the skin off of those who resisted them, gouged out their enemy's eyes, impaled enemy soldiers, forced people to eat excrement, smashed entire cities to the ground, and were responsible for numerous other atrocities against the peoples that they conquered well-afraid of them.
They brutally attacked the enemy.
One of the more dangerous modern methods of attack, for both parties, is mining. Tunnel(s) are dug towards and under any fortifications where the foundations of these walls can be attacked and hopefully destroyed. Trenches can also be tunneled under and explosives placed to the rear of the enemy front. There are quite elaborate examples of this in the First World War.
Because they could not defeat them single-handedly, and could only weaken them combined, as it turns out. It was a case of 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend.'
chlorine and phosgene which attacked the lungsmustard gas attacked the skin
an enemy of the wildebeest are crocodiles. they are attacked when they cross the rivers.
the Spanish were their enemy's and they attacked them with diseases and killed them unfortuntally.
Some of the numerous things that the Assyrians did (as attested by their own records - because they were proud of these things) included:Forcing enemy soldiers and civilians to eat excrementKilling entire cities of civiliansImpaling people repeatedlyPouring boiling liquids onto peopleRaping women repeatedly, gang-raping womenHacking off limbs and other appendages of captured people, drawing and quartering enemies for sportEnslaving hordes of captured peopleDeporting captured people from their homes and often times splitting up familiesUsing mechanical torture implementsBurning crop fields to starve their enemiesGeneral physical violence - stabbing, punching, etc.Gouging out enemy's eyes, lopping off enemy's noses, and other forms of violent sense-deprivationStealing from civiliansMaking family members watch other family members experiencing any of the above tortures