flanking maneuver

This was no flanking maneuver, not on only one side.

Those troops will only come in to oppose you when they fear your flanking maneuver.

He swung his entire army in a broad flanking maneuver to the west.

They were up to something, a flanking maneuver, maybe.

They moved in four parallel lines, prepared to make flanking maneuvers of their own.

The flanking maneuver is a basic military tactic, with several variations.

He asked his staff to plan a flanking maneuver that would push the Japanese off the mountains more quickly.

Or it could just be a ruse, while they prepared a flanking maneuver.

If you can't take him by a frontal assault, there's always a flanking maneuver.

Jackson and his entire corps were sent on an aggressive flanking maneuver to the right of the Union lines.

The second failure was that he apparently never considered ordering a flanking maneuver against the French right.

You could call it a 'flanking maneuver,' if you wanted.

Both geographical features prevented any flanking maneuver by the Natives.

At some point as they had been running, this man had separated from the others in a flanking maneuver.

Slowly, first one, then another of the aliens began to turn out in a flanking maneuver, crawling for the most part, heads down.

He proposed to lead 1200 men in a flanking maneuver while the main body under Lyon struck from the north.

The Elves sent scouts east and west to check for flanking maneuvers but found none.

Have them chase that patrol south and make it look like we're a flanking maneuver to cut off the garrison's road.

It may engage in direct attacks, or flanking maneuvers on enemy forces, and positions.

Some authorities have tried flanking maneuvers to frustrate online casinos.

He rejected the possibility of the flanking maneuver.

I thought we were going to push straight through you until you sprang that flanking maneuver on us.

Vergara was a flanking maneuver on the far left of the Peruvian defenses.

However, Tokugawa charged forward, rather than swinging around, and avoided the flanking maneuver.

A local flanking maneuver over the mountain slopes south of the barrier finally brought the mats the victory.