line of operations
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]line of operations (plural lines of operations)
- (military) That portion of a theater of war which an army passes over in attaining its object.
- 1846, Henry Halleck, Elements of Military Art and Science:
- As a general rule, a line of operations should- be directed upon the centre, or one of the extremities of the enemy's line of defence; unless our forces be infinitely superior in number,
References
[edit]“line”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.