How do you go to battle?

[Weasel]

Well you must have flexibility in the plan too. Using the above example: What if your map edge attack is blocked and stopped cold by over whelming forces, what will you do? Your secondary plan would be something like "forces in contact go on defensive and hold enemy in place while bulk of forces move by lateral means (road) to point 'B' and attack along axis 'Z' to take the original objective and in so doing enveloping and destroying the enemy. Now the third part would be "what if that attack is blocked too?

Think of it as a tree, you have the base of the tree and then two branches (alt plans) and then from there more branches from those branches.

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