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Definition of Diversionary attack
1. Noun. An attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack.
Specialized synonyms: Diversionary Landing
Generic synonyms: Attack, Onrush, Onset, Onslaught
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diversionary Attack
Literary usage of Diversionary attack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bloody Beaches: The Marines at Peleliu by Gordon D. Gayle (1996)
"The attached 3/5 was ordered to make a diversionary attack from the south into
the Horseshoe canyon and its guardian Five Sisters on its west. ..."
2. Life and Services of Gen. U. S. Grant by Henry Coppée (1868)
""Warren was also to make a diversionary attack on the enemy's left, in his front,
in order to keep him engaged in his lines at that point; while Burnside, ..."
3. Black Soldier, White Army: The 24th Infantry Regiment in Korea by William T. Bowers, William M. Hammond, George L. MacGarrigle (1997)
"The 24th would use its 2d Battalion to conduct a diversionary attack on the left
flank designed to broaden the 25th Division's front and to prevent the ..."
4. From Makin to Bougainville: Marine Raiders in the Pacific War by Jon T. Hoffman (1996)
"Thus he would go into battle with little fire support and poor logistics. He then
detailed one of his four battalions to make a diversionary attack along ..."
5. Seven Firefights in Vietnam by John A. Cash (1985)
"Either the enemy was unaware that the old camp, which lay about a kilometer east
of the new camp, was occupied or they did not think a diversionary attack ..."
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