When the rains end, Hari Mau will fall upon the enemy, a general advance by all our troops after a flanking action by the mercenaries.
For the next few days they came under attack from Vichy French aircraft and artillery before being committed to a flanking action on 15 June.
There was thus no option for a flanking action, as there had been at the Tebaga Gap nor to stretch the battlefield and thus disperse the defenders, as at El Alamein and subsequent battles.
But officials say the 35,000-man British force could improve the Army's striking power for a possible penetration of Iraqi lines following a bombing campaign or could be used for a flanking action in the west.
A major ground attack would likely begin with Army units, which are still taking up positions in northern in Saudi Arabia, conducting a flanking action from the West, the first step in a campaign of rapid-maneuver warfare.
Keya sprang into action almost as quickly, ordering half her company southward in a flanking action and sending the other half through the hedge to support Vala and Burlen.
He threw out an arm to point out the jeep that was rapidly taking up a flanking action to their left.
Depending on what happens later today, I may need you to ride to Tempre with three companies for a flanking action.
The extension of this defensive line in the west is a relatively new development intended to thwart any flanking action by the Iraqis.
That's not what Beowulf, excuse me, Weyland, would call a flanking action.