WordNet
n. an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack [syn: diversion]
Usage examples of "diversionary attack".
Suddenly the diversionary attack turned quite real as the meres howleda long, curdling wolfpack soundand ran forward.
I anticipate a diversionary attack on vector 085 by the Class C Yavac Scouts.
The diversionary attack on Welton, the phony SSS men, the murder of the Ranger, the impossibility of getting past a whole squad of security robots--it all had to fit together, somehow.
There'll be a diversionary attack by those rowdies across the way at first light.
Our enemy always uses a diversionary attack to cover his main move.
Always this opponent moved behind a feint, a diversionary attack or a false trail.
These called for a Navy attack under Admiral Nimitz on both the Santa Cruz and Solomon Islands, while MacArthur launched a diversionary attack on the East Indies.
Which was to say, of course, that MacArthur and Ghormley both disagreed with Admiral Ernest Kings proposed plans for immediate action: These called for a Navy attack under Admiral Nimitz on both the Santa Cruz and Solomon Islands, while MacArthur launched a diversionary attack on the East Indies.
The Sabers reached the bow of the frigate, and he immediately angled across the nose, both to confuse the enemy weapon crews and to set the squadron up for their diversionary attack run.
Breaking away from the diversionary attack at the north end of the encampment, she had been searching through the chaos for Jake.