Talk:Interior lines

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Hi everybody! After a prolonged literature cross-reading session I have a little bit the impression, that the rather variegated terms in the category Line of operation like: Line of effort, Passage of lines, non-linear movement, multilinear Warfare, i will never be able to trace back to a creator. Some, although declared obsolete, are used surprisingly often: (Logical line of operation) and authors have not only presented widely contradictory definitions but also disagree on the number and validity of the defining factors. But maybe i should just have an extra night's rest and see again. All the best Wikirictor 11:22, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your definition of "Interior Lines" incorrectly makes reference to it being a tactical concept. Jomini had defined Interior Lines as an operational concept within the context of strategic movements (see his "1805 Grand Military Opertions" and his "1838 Summary of the Art of War." Jomini identified Interior Lines as one of his Lines of Operations treated as Strategic Lines of Manuver in his Grand Military Operations,and later, makes reference to Interior Lines when addressing Strategic Lines in his Summary of the Art of War. Despite several other authors or historians or Civil War forems, articles, etc. making reference to places like Gettysburg where Meade had used a "tactical" Interior Line on his Fishook Line of Battle. The fact that Meade had a somewhat convex shaped line of battle enabling him to rapidly concentrate forces at any point or points (Longstreet's Memoir) did not suggest that Longstreet, who had studied Jomini himself, was alluding to a concept of Interior Lines as a tactical concept that he know only appies to Lines of Operations found in the Theater of War and Zones of Operations as defined by Jomini. 2601:CA:4180:3DE0:357D:A293:A89B:D1CA (talk) 19:34, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]