The phrase "advancing columns" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to military movements, data presentation, or any scenario where items or entities are moving forward in a structured manner.
Example: "The advancing columns of troops were a sight to behold as they marched towards the battlefield."
Alternatives: "moving formations" or "progressing lines".
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It is more convinced than ever that even the best-intentioned foreign intervention is bound to bog its armies down in endless wars fighting invisible enemies to help ungrateful locals.Echoes of Afghanistan rang loud earlier this month when French forces swooped on advancing columns of Islamists threatening the Saharan state of Mali.
However, the advancing columns rapidly lost their cohesion; shortly after clearing Borodino, they faced fresh Russian assault columns and retreated back to the village.
The IDF command did not see the forces in the western Negev as sufficient to fully stop an Egyptian invasion, wherever it was headed, and ordered an operation to stop or delay the advancing column.
Yet Manuel's army of 35,000 men was large and unwieldy – according to a letter that Manuel sent to King Henry II of England, the advancing column was ten miles (16 km) long.
Montluc, noting that the disorder of the Italians had forced them to a standstill, suggested that De Tais attack Madruzzo's advancing column of landsknechts instead; this advice was accepted, and the French formation turned left in an attempt to strike the landsknechts in the flank.
The allies also came under increasing attack from heavily armed Iraqi irregulars assigned to harass the allied forces' progress and to attack support troops behind the swiftly advancing forward columns.
They said some residents had tried to stop the advancing armored columns with barricades, many of them built of furniture, iron railings, rocks and cinder blocks, but those barriers stood little chance against the military's might.
Mr. Saakashvili and his advisers also say that even though he has no tactical military experience, he was at one time personally directing important elements of the battle — giving orders over a cellphone and deciding when to move a brigade from western to central Georgia to face the advancing Russian columns.
This forced the Polish mobile artillery in Czyste, until then shelling the advancing Russian columns and their Grand Battery, to fall back.
The following day, the other brigade carried out similar manoeuvres in the direction of Katia and the advancing Ottoman columns, picking up the officers patrols which had been left out during the night to monitor enemy movements.
