How Close is 'Close Combat'?

[William F. Owen]

We are back to that old concept (from where I come from) where you find them, encircle them, flush them, pursue them and then kill them.

Where everyone comes from, or should - FIND, FIX, STRIKE, EXPLOIT. - Core Functions. Explicitly written down by Ferdinand Foch in about 1911, as a guide to campaign planning, but actually applicable at all levels.

IMO, core functions are the most under used and misunderstood conceptual tool for tactics ever to exist.