line of operations
English
Noun
line of operations (plural lines of operations)
- (military) That portion of a theater of war which an army passes over in attaining its object.
- 1846, Henry Halleck, Elements of Military Art and Science
- As a general rule, a line of operations should- be directed upon the centre, or one of the extremities of the enemy's line of defence; unless our forces be infinitely superior in number,
- 1846, Henry Halleck, Elements of Military Art and Science
References
line in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913