Quote:The other possibility is the attack en echelon. It's typically where you pin the defender's line with attacks in succession to keep him guessing where the main effort is going to be and a main attack to rupture the line and turn the flanks in. The schwerpunkt is conducted at a weak point in the line, normally the flank.
"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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