holding attack

holding attack

An attack designed to hold the enemy in position, to deceive the enemy as to where the main attack is being made, to prevent the enemy from reinforcing the elements opposing the main attack, and/or to cause the enemy to commit the reserves prematurely at an indecisive location.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
References in periodicals archive ?
The Cold Start Doctrine or a strategy is actually a war fighting scheme that calls on India's conventional forces to perform holding attacks before international intervention or before nuclear retaliation from Pakistan.
Policy of Full Spectrum Deterrence
The doctrine intends to allow India's conventional forces to perform holding attacks to prevent nuclear retaliation from Pakistan in case of a conflict.
Pakistan developed short-range N-weapons to counter India's
Dictionary browser ?
Full browser ?