World War I
infiltration tactics
Key
points
Fire at
all levels by artillery, mortars, and machine-guns is exploited to hold adversary
attention and pin him down hence
Fire
together with gas and smoke (as well as fog and mist) represent an immediate
and ominous threat to capture adversary attention, force heads down and
dramatically obscure view, thereby cloak infiltrators movements.
Dispersed
and irregular character of moving swarms (as opposed to well defined
line abreast formations) permit infiltrators to blend against irregular and
changing terrain features as they push forward.
Taken
together, the captured attention, the obscured view, and the indistinct
character of moving dispersed/irregular swarms deny adversary the
opportunity to picture what is taking place.
Result
Infiltration teams appear to suddenly loom-up out of
nowhere to blow thru, around, and behind disoriented
defenders.
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