A second German force was sent into Belgium and the Netherlands to act as a diversion to this main thrust.

The combination of Montgomery being given priority for supplies, and diversion of resources to moving the Communications Zone, resulted in the Third Army running out of gas in Alsace-Lorraine while exploiting German weakness.

In the largest partisan sabotage action of the entire Second World War, the so-called Asipovichy diversion of 30 July 1943 four German trains with supplies and Tiger tanks were destroyed.

The resistance of the German Fourth army, unusually wet weather, the onset of winter and the diversion of British and French resources to Italy, following the Austro-German victory at the Battle of Caporetto, ( 24 October – 19 November ) allowed the Germans to avoid a general withdrawal, which had seemed inevitable to them in October.

Haig wished to exploit the diversion of German forces in Russia for as long as it continued and urged that the maximum amount of manpower and munitions be committed to the battle in Flanders.

He said that there was no German diversion.

When the actual invasion began, the success of Fortitude was that it misled the German High Command into believing the landings were a diversion and of keeping reserves away from the beaches.

The attack did not result in the diversion of any German troops.

German reconnaissance of Scapa during the period of assembly failed to notice the diversion, which was also not sighted on its passage.

SWC Joint Note 12 declared that, leaving aside improbables such as Central Powers internal collapse or Russian revival, neither side could win a decisive victory on the Western Front in 1918, although decisive results could be had against Turkey ( although, at French insistence, no further troops were to be sent ), possibly leading to diversion of German troops and encouragement of pro-Allied elements in Romania and southern Russia.

In addition, a special formation was created from the German minority living in Poland called Selbstschutz, whose members had trained in Germany before the war in diversion and guerilla fighting.

Finally, " A " Company of the Argylls, the Argyll scout platoon and one squadron of the SARs were moved to a point north of the crossing along the canal to provide a diversion and to test German defences in that area.

* February 20-21 ( 0overnight ) – 598 British bombers strike Stuttgart, Germany, suffering the loss of only nine aircraft ( 1. 5 percent of the force ) thanks to the diversion of German night fighters, although five more bombers crash upon returning to England.

At a regular stop, while a fruit cart provided a lucky diversion and other German prisoners covered for him, von Werra slipped over a dry-stone wall into a field.

General Haig instructed Allenby to mount a diversion to pin German forces to their trenches and attract artillery fire away from the main attack.

A gap of one mile ( 1. 6 km ) existed between the Gommecourt diversion and the northern edge of the main attack and preparations were made as obvious as possible in an effort to distract German attention away from the Fourth Army but this only made the task of VII Corps all the more difficult.

German citizens who worked at railways and defense enterprises were qualified as " penetrated agents of the German General Staff and Gestapo ", ready for diversion activity " during the war period " (! NB: the war was considered imminent ).

The German invasion of northern Belgium — where the BEF was located — was a diversion with the main attack being through the poorly-defended Ardennes forest.

Nevertheless, German propaganda and competition with Poland here notwithstanding, Germany's approach departed from the basic ideological tenets of Prometheism ; the German approach essentially constituted, in Charaszkiewicz's words, " an elastic, opportunistic platform for diversion, amenable to exploitation for current German political purposes in any direction.

The German diversion of resources in the Balkans is also considered by some historians to have delayed the launch of the invasion of the Soviet Union by a critical month, which proved disastrous when the German army failed to take Moscow.

Such bombing campaigns were regarded as diversion from the Luftwaffe's main operations ; destruction of the enemy armed forces.

Such bombing campaigns were regarded as diversion from the Luftwaffe's main operations ; destruction of the enemy armed forces.

* May 6 – Thirty Years ' War: While waiting for the Protestant forces of Christian of Brunswick to join them, Mansfeld and Georg Friedrich of Baden-Durlach split up their forces as a diversion for the Imperial army of Tilly.

In September the British launched a Raid on Lorient in an attempt to provide a diversion for the Allied forces in the Netherlands.

" The turning point of the war was the 1968 Tet Offensive, in which communist forces, having staged a diversion at the Battle of Khe Sanh, attacked cities and towns throughout South Vietnam.

Although Rundstedt opposed this diversion of forces, he was its beneficiary as attention was shifted to the southern front.

Batu and Subutai were to lead two armies to attack Hungary itself, while a third under Baidar, Orda Khan and Kadan would attack Poland as a diversion to occupy northern European forces which might come to Hungary's aid.

The purpose of the operation was to create a diversion for a Royal Lao Army offensive and to exert pressure on the occupation forces of the People's Army of Vietnam ( PAVN ).

The attack on Khe Sanh, which began on 21 January, may have been intended to serve two purposes — as a real attempt to seize the position or as a diversion to draw American attention and forces away from the population centers in the lowlands, a deception that was " both plausible and easy to orchestrate.

The campaign had also created a diversion of French forces and sufficient time for William of Orange to invade England.

Barnard had been detoured towards the Common by a police diversion as communication between ground forces and the police helicopter remained sporadic.

General Zachary Taylor, commander of all U. S. forces, decided to attack western Monterrey in a giant " hook " movement while carrying out a small diversion against northeastern Monterrey.

Once the regroup was complete, a counterattack would be launched in conjunction with the earlier diversion forces, driving the enemy out of the Jiangxi Soviet.

The failure of the diversion forces resulted in their loss of contacts with the Jiangxi Soviet, and the communist leadership failed to coordinate its next proper move in a timely fashion, still believing that a temporary retreat near or within the Jiangxi Soviet would allow them to recover and counterattack, eventually driving out the nationalist force.

Although Rimmer ultimately succeeds in destroying the opposing army, his forces are completely wiped out when he uses most of them as a diversion and then has Kryten turn up the heating to melt all the droids.

The Ottoman attack at Çatalca, directed against the powerful Bulgarian First and Third Armies, was initially launched only as a diversion from the Gallipoli-Şarköy operation, pinning down the Bulgarian forces in situ.

:::" After a study it became apparent that such an operation could be executed only by the diversion of considerable air support essential to the success of our forces now engaged in decisive operations elsewhere and would in any case be of such doubtful efficacy that it would not warrant the use of our resources.

Lake volume is now at the mercy of a cascade of forces that include the fact that it is very likely impossible that the prevailing climate pattern of profound drought will or can change to precipitation surcharge in a time frame shorter than that in which the lake level will fall below the dead storage level of the downstream diversion and hydro-power intake tunnels.

Admiral Howe sent a noisy demonstration of Royal Navy ships up the Hudson River early on the morning of September 15, but Washington and his aides determined that it was a diversion and maintained their forces at the north end of the island.

Such bombing campaigns were regarded as diversion from the Luftwaffe's main operations, destruction of the enemy armed forces.

This was apparently a diversion, to allow Sovereign America forces led by Tobias Stromm himself to take over City Hall, for what Stromm calls an " end of the world vigil ".

Illegal theft, export, diversion, transfer, or proliferation of sensitive DoD technology, systems, weapons, and equipment, with particular emphasis upon allegations involving targeted foreign nations, organized international criminal organizations, or potentially hostile entities apt to utilize said items in furtherance of assaults against U. S. military forces.