Salients, Re-Entrants and Pockets
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Salients, Re-Entrants and Pockets

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In military terms, a salient is a battlefield feature that projects into enemy territory. Therefore, the salient is surrounded by the enemy on three sides, making the troops occupying the salient vulnerable. The enemy's line facing a salient is referred to as a re-entrant (an angle pointing inwards). A deep salient is vulnerable to being "pinched out" across the base, forming a pocket in which the defenders of the salient become isolated.In their topographic senses, both salient (also known as "spur") and re-entrant (also known as a "gully") are fami...