POSITION
“War is a business of position.”—Napoleon.
By the term Position is signified those relative advantages and disadvantages in location, which appertain to the aggregate posts occupied by the kindred army, as compared with the aggregate posts occupied by the adverse army.
Advantages and disadvantages in Position are of three classes, viz.:
- (a) Those which appertain to the Column of Attack
- (b) Those which appertain to the Column of Support.
- (c) Those which appertain to the Column of Manoeuvre.