The artillery preparation was considered excellent and the assembly for the attack was so well covered by the bombardment, that the attack was a tactical surprise.
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"We still want to preserve tactical surprise as much as possible, " said General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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This is achieved through the use of tactical surprise, application of overwhelming force at a key point, or other tactics performed immediately before or during the battle.
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By landing at Klandasan, Milford hoped to achieve tactical surprise and anticipated fire support from the United States Navy would help counter the coastal defences of the Japanese.
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The attack of 14 July gained tactical surprise and was " hugely successful ", unlike the disaster north of the Albert Bapaume road on the First day on the Somme.
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By using a small, isolated beach where the Japanese had not anticipated an assault, the force achieved tactical surprise, but the islands proved to be far from unoccupied.
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The attack in the north at El Alamein on the night of 23 October 1942 came, as Winston Churchill reported to parliament, as a " complete tactical surprise ".
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Perhaps the biggest tactical surprise last week was defense lawyer Robert Baker's decision not to question Simpson immediately, or " rehabilitate " him, in trial parlance.
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Achieving tactical surprise, the French cavalry plunged across the ford during the Spanish " siesta ", followed by the infantry of Marshal �douard Mortier's V Corps.
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Having denounced its neutrality pact with Japan on April 5, Soviet forces crossed the border into Japanese-held Manchuria at midnight on August 8, 1945, achieving tactical surprise.
