diversionary attack
Noun
Meaning
an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack
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Adkin (2001). p. 37. Battle main Wellington at Waterloo, by Robert Alexander Hillingford The Battle of Waterloo commenced with a diversionary attack on Hougoumont by a division of French soldiers.
By nightfall, Rundstedt, Rommel and Speidel continued to believe that the Normandy landing might have been a diversionary attack, as the Allied deception measures still pointed towards Calais.
Iran's plan was for three assaults: a diversionary attack near Basra, the main offensive, and another diversionary attack using Iranian armor in the north to have Iraqi heavy armor diverted away from Basra.
Étienne had died on 24 October 1942 from chest wounds received while leading his men in a diversionary attack on Qaret el Himeimat, at the beginning of the Second Battle of El Alamein ; he had never seen his daughter.
Karbala Operations Operation Karbala-4 main On 25 December 1986, Iran launched Operation Karbala-4 (Karbala referring to Hussein ibn Ali 's Battle of Karbala ). citation According to General Ra'ad al-Hamdani, this was a diversionary attack.
Nevertheless, the Neapolitan campaign had been undertaken in the face of opposition from the Maritime Powers, who instead had favoured a diversionary attack on southern France.