The phrase "axis of advance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to strategy, movement, or progress, often in military, business, or scientific discussions.
Example: "The team established a clear axis of advance to ensure that all departments were aligned in their efforts to achieve the project goals."
Alternatives: "line of progress" or "path of advancement".
Airborne troops were dropped in the Netherlands to secure key bridges and towns along the Allied axis of advance.
Radio equipped forward liaison officers could call upon the Stukas and direct them to attack enemy positions along the axis of advance.
Initial air reconnaissance indicated large concentrations of Yugoslav troops on the divisional axis of advance, but these troops proved to be withdrawing towards Zagreb.
His men dug an emplacement for the armored jeep and its.50 caliber gun, placing it in enfilade down the road along the German's possible axis of advance.
As the glider regiment took up the push westwards in the face of heavy opposition, the 511th changed their axis of advance and attempted to move into the city from the north.
Elements of the HGZ also saw action along the Novska Okučani axis of advance in the HV's Operation Flash offensive that took place in western Slavonia in early May 1995.
A short time afterwards a flare was fired from the German lines followed by sporadic rifle and machine-gun fire, which was directed somewhere away from the battalion's axis-of-advance.
The second axis of the JNA advance was assigned to the 9th Boka Kotorska VPS.
The 163rd Infantry Brigade supported the main axis of the operation, advancing from Župa Dubrovačka towards Vlaštica.
The method consists on adapting the original algorithm from Chen and Nandhakumar [A simple scheme for motion boundary detection, in: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1994] by using foveal images obtained with a special camera whose optical axis points towards the direction of advance.
The pledge by the two leaders came as the United States acknowledged that the nuclear threat posed by Iran -- another of the three nations listed by the administration as part of the "axis of evil" -- was advancing more swiftly than some experts had thought.
