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A name for a military tactic
Defeat in Detail and/or Turning the flanks
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"Defeat in Detail"
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A "Defeat in Detail" often, but not always uses "turning the flanks" to attack a smaller segment of a larger army and breaking that larger army into smaller segments that are defeated in relative isolation.

"Turning the Flanks"
Nepoleon Maxims
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Simply going around the enemies strong point and hitting them in a weaker point this ofen leads to a "Defeat in Detail" for the Flanked force.
Traditionally Flanks were considered to be only the extreme right or left of a force, but even then their were sappers and tunnelers that could turn a castle or siege lines "flank" by tunneling under it's strongest defenses. In modern times since roughly the American civil war thier has been the possibility of turning your "Vertical flank".
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A name for a military tactic - by Murmur the Fallen - 11-19-2007, 11:45 AM
Defeat in Detail and/or Turning the flanks - by hmelton - 11-19-2007, 06:43 PM
Other possibility - by ordnance11 - 11-20-2007, 02:49 AM
I just remembered it - by Murmur the Fallen - 12-03-2007, 09:06 PM
books - by Rev Dark - 12-03-2007, 09:57 PM
Re: books - by Valles - 12-03-2007, 10:31 PM

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