1-This is exactly what I mean by concealed movement. The bold highlights show that the attack was successful because the Marine attacking movements were concealed! If the artillery did not suppress (conceal the marines movement) the attack might not have succeeded.
2-The Artillery suppression is what I mean by the Main effort(as opposed to combined arms) in this case, everything else hinged on that succeeding, supporting attacks that followed were more in line with the deployments of the commanders reserves. Which Wyly has a lecture on in the book also, which was also deleted when newer editions were written. When ever Arms are combined they have to be synchronized in order to avoid friendly fire incidents, that synchronization is alot like the concept of establishing or switching the main effort to me. Why can't artillery be a main effort and then switch to an air strike main effort and then switch to an infantry main effort?
3-Wyly says during his lecture in the book that whenever they(the AWS class) use the term objective it will mean a geographic reference point.... But he does have a couple of lines were he talks about a "Mobile" enemy being the objective, but even then he talks about referring to it as a "enemy mortar position"
We are just going to have to find Colonel Wyly and wake him up and ask him.
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