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However, in some situations, especially when deep behind enemy lines, the actual attack will be carried out by a platoon, a company-sized unit will be deployed to support the attack group, setting up and maintaining a forward patrol harbour from which the attacking force will deploy, and to which they will retire after the attack.
Strategies based on maneuver have the inherent danger of the attacking force overextending its supply lines, and can be defeated by a determined foe who is willing and able to sacrifice territory for time in which to regroup and rearm, as the Soviets did on the Eastern Front ( as opposed to, for example, the Dutch who had no territory to sacrifice ).
After island-hopping across the Aegean, including successfully attacking Naxos, the Persian task force arrived off Euboea in mid summer.
American policy was to threaten Japan, to force it out of China, and to prevent its attacking the Soviet Union.
Thus, the third phase of the war ( roughly August 1920 – July 1921 ) involved the IRA taking on a greatly expanded British force, moving away from attacking well defended barracks and instead using ambush tactics.
To destroy the enemy air force by bombing its bases and aircraft factories, and defeating enemy air forces attacking German targets. 2.
The Crusader force enjoyed early success against Shirkuh's troops, but the terrain was too steep and sandy for their horses, and commander Hugh of Caesarea was captured while attacking Saladin's unit.
Military usage includes attacking enemy surface ships or submarines, aircraft carrier protection, blockade running, ballistic missile submarines as part of a nuclear strike force, reconnaissance, conventional land attack ( for example using a cruise missile ), and covert insertion of special forces.
These early examples were useful only for attacking large targets like cities or ports, but their relative invulnerability and low cost provided both sides with a credible force in an era of stiffening air defenses.
Another aspect is to see the setter as an attacking force, albeit a weakened force, because when the setter is in the front court they are able to ' tip ' or ' dump ', so when the ball is close to the net on the second touch, the setter may opt to hit the ball over with one hand.
Testing concluded that the mine was effective out to approximately, being capable of hitting 10 % of the attacking force.
The assault on the Iraqi positions on the Al Faw peninsula consisted of a DPV mounted SEAL force at the refinery and port with a larger force of US Marines from the 5th Regimental Combat Team of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force attacking Iraqi positions farther north in the Rumaila oil fields.
In addition, armed French civilians were to create a guerilla forcethe so-called Francs-tireurs — for the purpose of attacking German support lines.
He suggested, from the safety of Berwick upon Tweed, that the Scots could be vanquished by a modest English force attacking from north and south in a pincer movement.
Combined with the Union force facing Fredericksburg, Hooker planned a double envelopment, attacking Lee from both his front and rear.
The following year a smaller force led by Charles Knowles made raids upon the Venezuelan coast, attacking La Guaira in February 1743 and Puerto Cabello in April, though neither operation was particularly successful.
It can be whirled around, using its hardened handles for blunt force as well as wrapping its chain around an attacking weapon to immobilise or disarm the opponent.
Starting on 30 July 1809, a British armed force of 39, 000 men landed on Walcheren, the Walcheren Campaign, with a view to assisting the Austrians in their war against Napoleon, and attacking the French fleet moored at Flushing ( Vlissingen ).
The majority of the attacking Zulu force swept around to attack the north wall, while a few took cover and were either pinned by continuing British fire or retreated to the terraces of Oscarberg.
Black Hawk responded by attacking the militia force, soundly thrashing them at the Battle of Stillman's Run.
Currently Chinese military doctrine is in a flux, but recently some PLA generals have emphasized that they are trying to build a force capable of attacking the enemy's structural system.
It is revealed that the attacking force is using trees cut down during the previous night to disguise and protect themselves in their advance on the castle.
When executed properly, one can strike an opponent with great force, combining his attacking momentum and one's forward movement.

attacking and assembled
He was noted for his eloquent performance in a meeting with Scott in which he swayed the opinions of the general officers assembled to change their planned tactics for attacking the fortress of Chapultepec.
The assembled Sinister Six went off on a rampage, stealing advanced weapons and technology from several sources, including raiding an alien dimension for advanced weaponry and attacking a facility specializing in cybernetics.
Wizard later assembled Hydro-Man, Titania, and Klaw as the Frightful Four when attacking the Four Freedoms Plaza following Sandman's reform.
By 1998 Evans had successfully assembled a talented nucleus of players, who were particularly impressive going forward and in their attacking football, where Evans had been credited with creating arguably the nation's most exciting and aesthetically pleasing team of the 1990s.

attacking and southern
The Chinese, North Vietnamese and North Koreans, on the other hand, feel that, militarily, Russia is strong enough to support them in the `` just wars of liberation '' they would like to embark on before long: with China attacking Formosa and the North Koreans and North Vietnamese liberating the southern half of their respective countries.
Now ready to enter Canaan, the Israelites abandoned the idea of attacking the Canaanites head-on in Hebron, a city in the southern part of Canaan.
The Union strategy, of a comprehensive effort to bring about a speedy victory for the Union, designed by President Lincoln and Grant, consisted of combined military Union offensives, attacking the Confederacy's armies, railroads, and economic infrastructure, to keep the Confederate armies from mobilizing reinforcements within southern interior lines.
Sun Quan did agree to Zhou Yu's plans to consider attacking Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu ( who controlled the modern southern Shaanxi ) to try to take over their territories, but after Zhou Yu died in 210, the plans were abandoned.
This cumbersome arrangement contributed to his slowness in attacking and crossing what is now called " Burnside's Bridge " on the southern flank of the Union line.
After attacking the PLO, as well as Syrian, leftist and Muslim Lebanese forces, Israel occupied southern Lebanon and eventually surrounded the PLO and elements of the Syrian army.
King and other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff favored blockading Japanese forces in the Philippines and attacking Formosa ( Taiwan ) to give the Americans and Australians control of the sea routes between Japan and southern Asia.
Brownlee himself toured southern Alberta attacking Aberhart's policies as vague and unconstitutional.
Wangdue Phodrang dzong, for instance, is set upon a spur overlooking the confluence of the Puna Chhu and Tang Chhu rivers thus blocking any attacks by southern invaders who attempted to use a river route to bypass the trackless slopes of the middle Himalayas in attacking central Bhutan.
Once the Axis forces had been defeated in Tunisia, the Allied strategic bomber force commenced attacking the principal airfields of Sardinia, Sicily and southern Italy, industrial targets in southern Italy and the ports of Naples, Messina, Palermo and Cagliari ( in Sardinia ).
Fearing the possibility that the peasants might rebel and press into areas surrounding the capital city of Chengdu while he was attacking Wei in the north, Zhuge Liang decided to pacify the southern tribes first.
Taliban reinforcements moved into mountainous region in southern Afghanistan where U. S. and Afghan forces have been attacking hideouts in a battle over the past week.
United States forces became involved by attacking a Creek party in present-day southern Alabama at the Battle of Burnt Corn.
The P-51 escorts were able to establish an environment of air superiority, enabling the bombers to roam widely across southern and eastern Europe, attacking targets at Brux in Czechoslovakia, Budapest, Komárom, Győr and Pétfürdő in Hungary, Belgrade and other cities in Yugoslavia and Trieste in north-eastern Italy.
Instead of attacking strong Greek fortifications on the Yugoslav-Greek border, the Germans could break through the weak southern Yugoslav defences, and then outflank the elite Greek forces defending the Metaxas Line.
* August 2 – As one of the components of Operation Hurry, the first of many operations in which Allied aircraft carriers fly off Royal Air Force fighters for service at Malta, twelve Fairey Swordfish from the British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal make the first night raid on Italian soil in the early morning hours, attacking Cagliari in southern Sardinia.
Due to the Bascom Affair, Chief Cochise and Mangas Coloradas were attacking American settlements all across southern New Mexico Territory.
His situation was dire, as German forces were close to surrounding his units: the German 8th Army had secured the southern bank of the Bzura river, and the German 4th Army had secured the northern bank of Vistula, from Włocławek to Wyszogród, and its elements were attacking the rear of the Armies Pomorze and Poznań from the direction of Inowrocław and crossing the Vistula river near Płock.
While the bulk of Army Group Centre was being forced, by the advance of the 1st Ukrainian Front, to withdraw along its lines of communication to the south-west towards Czechoslovakia, the southern flank of 4th Panzer Army had some local successes counter attacking north against the 1st Ukrainian Front, Hitler gave orders which showed that his grasp of military reality had gone.
Another attack was attempted on August 30, with Rommel's armoured forces attacking the southern flank.
The division was assigned to the LXXX Corps of the German Seventh Army which formed the southern shoulder of the German armies attacking in the Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge.
The southern states argued that the northern states had violated the compact by undermining and attacking the institution of slavery and the slaveholders ' property rights in their slaves.
After returning to the Ardiaean Kingdom, Demetrius continued operations during the following winter, attacking and seizing Roman allied cities and communities in southern Illyria.

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