Warfare

Salient

A bulge in a front line that projects into enemy territory and can be fired on from three sides. The Ypres Salient was the most notorious.

Mentioned in

• Chapter III The War of Movement §7 Galicia, Lemberg and Serbia's Victories
• Chapter IV Deadlock §3 Second Ypres and the First Gas Attack§5 Italy Enters the War: The Isonzo and the Mountains§6 The Eastern Front: Gorlice-Tarnów and the Great Retreat
• Chapter V The Year of Attrition §2 Verdun I: Falkenhayn's Mill
• Chapter VI The Year of Revolutions §4 Arras, Vimy and the Chemin des Dames§8 Cambrai: The Tanks Break Through, and Back
• Chapter VII The Last Gamble Overview§4 Georgette, the Marne, and Why It Failed§5 The Americans Arrive, and the Second Marne§7 The Hundred Days: Breaking the Hindenburg Line