vanguard (leading units of an army) / forward (player nearest to the opposing soccer team), lineman (playing position in football), or similar positions in tennis, volleyball, and other sports

command, direction

to command, to direct

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

war (conflict involving organized use of arms)

to wage war

avant-garde art

avant-garde