Question on tactics: Assault, assault and assault

[McIvan]

Assault is not a banzai charge. It is simply closing to a range where your fire becomes extremely effective, particularly small arms fire, grenades etc.

"Assault" is an advancing unit putting so much pressure on an enemy unit that it must ultimately either retreat or surrender.

That pressure would nearly always be delivered by brutally effective close range fire rather than rare hand to hand combat.