21, 1916, in Ian Ousby's words "the most massive" concentration of force "yet gathered in a war that had already proved a deadlock of concentrated force".
That strategy, intended to prevent civilian casualties, set the stage for the street fighting in Nasiriya, where a large concentration of forces loyal to Mr. Hussein had come together.
So as to eliminate that wasteful use of manpower, he advocated for a concentration of force against an enemy.
"This is not a matter of some sort of concentration of forces, but of the strengthening of border controls of the Russian Federation," Vladimir Putin's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
Epaminondas' tactical innovations of oblique order and concentration of forces against the enemy's command brought about the Theban Boeotian victory.
Having gained security in the west, Germany would then shift its troops to the east and destroy the Russian menace with a similar concentration of forces.
Helmand is Afghanistan's largest province and even the current 12,000-13,000 tronps on the ground do not represent a high concentration of forces.
America is likely to have up to 250,000 troops in the region eventually; but hostilities may start before some of them arrive, partly to avoid creating a huge concentration of forces that might become an easy target.
Pressured in their traditional strongholds in the south and east by NATO's growing concentration of forces there, the insurgents have become more active in areas once relatively quiet, like Badakhshan Province.
Barring a brief period in 1942 43, when U-boats operated successfully in so-called wolf packs, submarines have always been solo performers, relying for successful attack on concealment and surprise rather than concentration of force.
