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...were therefore committed to a frontal advance in an extremely mountainous country which gave every advantage to the defense. All rivers flow at right angles to our advance and violent rains often turn these rivers in a few hours into raging torrents, thus sweeping away all military bridges . . and sometimes leaving part of the assaulting force committed to attack on the far side and beyond reach of immediate support...
...victory outflanked Zhlobin, which he could not take by frontal assault. This week it also placed his army only 20 miles from a major enemy base at Bobruisk. Some 90 miles beyond Bobruisk, on the historic Smolensk road on which Napoleon lost his army, lay Minsk...
Tarawa had shown the high price of frontal assault. This time the Army troops landed first on Kwajalein's flank, on the islet of Gea (which they mistook in the dark for Ninni). They dragged their artillery through the water with them. Then they crossed to Ninni, Ennylabegan and Enubuj...
...Nettuno's beaches last week, the Allied Command tested the alternative to frontal assault. It worked. The Allies had found a short cut to Rome; they had also outflanked the enemy, massed to meet them in the south...
Italy. The Allies shattered the German line in Italy, fought their way through the mountains to easier but still difficult roads to Rome. If Allied commanders planned flanking attack by sea, rather than a frontal drive on the Holy City, the secret was well kept...