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World War I · Infiltration tactics

Essence

  • Cloud/distort signature and improve mobility to avoid fire yet focus effort to penetrate, shatter, envelop, and mop-up disconnected or isolated debris of adversary system.

Intent

  • Exploit tactical dispersion in a focused way to gain tactical success and expand it into a grand tactical success.

Implication

  • Small units exploiting tactical dispersion in a focused way—rather than large formations abiding by the “Principle of Concentration”—penetrate adversary to generate many non-cooperative (or isolated) centers of gravity as basis to magnify friction, paralyze effort, and bring about adversary collapse.

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