- 1. Strategic Center vs. Adverse Formation in Mass.
- 2. Logistic Center vs. Adverse Formation by Grand Columns.
- 3. Tactical Center vs. Adverse Formation by Wings.
- 4. Logistic Triune vs. Adverse Formation by Corps.
Special Advantage in Mobility consists in the ability of a corps d’armee to traverse greater or equal distances in lesser times than opposing corps.
MILITARY EXAMPLES
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a false movement.”—Napoleon.
In the year (366 B.C.) the King of Sparta, with an army of 30,000 men marched to the aid of the Mantineans against Thebes. Epaminondas took up a post with his army from whence he equally threatened Mantinea and Sparta. Agesilaus incautiously moved too far towards the coast, whereupon Epaminondas, with 70,000 men precipitated himself upon Lacedaemonia, laying waste the country with fire and sword, all but taking by storm the city of Sparta and showing the women of Lacedaemonia the campfire of an enemy for the first time in six hundred years.
Flaminius advancing incautiously to oppose Hannibal, the latter took up a post with his army from whence he equally threatened the city of Rome and the army of the Consul. In the endeavor to rectify his error, the Roman general committed a worse and was destroyed with his entire army.