a flanking maneuver is a movement of an armed force around an enemy force's side, or flank, to achieve an advantageous position over it. Flanking is...

a flanking maneuver, or flanking manoeuvre (also called a flank attack), is an attack on the sides of an opposing force. If a flanking maneuver succeeds...

attrition. Charge Decision cycle Defeat in detail Flanking maneuver Historical examples of flanking maneuvers OODA loop Pincer movement Russian military deception...

envelopment, is a military maneuver in which forces simultaneously attack both flanks (sides) of an enemy formation. This classic maneuver has been important...

in a flanking maneuver Flanking, a sound path in architectural acoustics Flanking region, a region of DNA in directionality Rift flank (synonymous of...

types of envelopment: A flanking maneuver or single envelopment consists of one enveloping force attacking one of the enemy's flanks. This is extremely effective...

tried to cross the river and failed five times. Finally at 4 P.M., a flanking maneuver forced Toombs to withdraw. After the further engagement, the remainder...

support as well as confusing the enemy in preparation for annihilation. Flanking maneuver Defeat in detail Interdiction – severing or disrupting lines of communication...

were tasked with covering Wagner's flanks, and failed to do so resulting in a successful Ukrainian flanking maneuver that resulted in a large amount of...

Jackson started the campaign under Lee's orders with a sweeping flanking maneuver that placed his corps into the rear of Union Maj. Gen. John Pope's...

feigned retreat by Mamluk general Baibars, combined with a final flanking maneuver by Qutuz, the Mongol army was forced to retreat toward Bisan, after...

Cobra maneuver / Dynamic deceleration In aerobatics, the cobra maneuver (or just the cobra), also called dynamic deceleration, among other names (see...

a frontal attack over the bridge while other forces made a double flanking maneuver (Mehmet Satirghi Pashha in the east and Hasan Pasha (beylerbey of...

exposed themselves to counter-attack. Seeing this, Washington ordered a flanking maneuver which failed to cut off the British force but, in the face of this...

Frederick Augustus of Württemberg. A frontal attack combined with a flanking maneuver forced the Austrians to retreat. Three future Marshals of France played...

an angle to the main line in an attempt to prevent the Confederate flanking maneuver. Despite heavy losses, the 20th Maine held through two subsequent...

the Confederate flank. After sending Lieutenant Colonel Edward W. Whitacker of his staff to personally direct the flanking maneuver, Custer ordered Wells...

maneuver will take place, while in fact another, or even none, will. Flanking maneuver – Involves attacking the opponent from the side, or rear Guerrilla...

began to employ a new strategy. He swung his entire army in a broad flanking maneuver to the west.[page needed] Finally, on August 31, at Jonesborough,...

October 12, British forces landed at Throgs Neck in order to execute a flanking maneuver that would trap Gen. George Washington, commander-in-chief of the...

preliminary action, the Mahdist force began a flanking maneuver against the Belgians. The Mahdists' right flank, situated along the river parallel to the...

other side of the Imagawa’s main camp, and the Oda forces made a flanking maneuver and attacked the Imagawa army at Dengaku-hazama from the north. However...

Sherman maneuvered against each other, until the Union tactical defeat at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. McPherson then tried a flanking maneuver at the...

regiment in a long night flanking maneuver to set up a blocking position against which he would drive the Sioux. The flanking maneuver was led by Lt. Col....

concluded with another flanking maneuver by Jackson, which Pope engaged at the Battle of Chantilly on September 1. Lee's maneuvering of the Army of Northern...

Brigade holding the defensive line at the Pusan Perimeter. To execute a flanking maneuver, General Douglas MacArthur called on United Nations forces, including...

they suffered 40% casualties but slowed General James Longstreet's flanking maneuver. Sickles himself was wounded by cannon fire at Gettysburg and had...

encircle them through a flanking maneuver led by 1 Kumaon (Para) on the southern side of the Sikhs, and 4 Kumaon on the right flank. Early morning on 7 November...

Napoleon's army would follow; he also received (false) reports of a flanking maneuver through Mons to the southwest. Wellington first received reports of...

Japanese position, Tall suggests a small detachment of men to perform a flanking maneuver on the bunker to capture it. Among the men to volunteer for the mission...