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Line of communication

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on horseback and runners to convey and deliver orders and battle updates to and from unit commanders and headquarters. Thus, a unit whose lines of communication were compromised was vulnerable to becoming isolated and destroyed, as the means for requesting reinforcements and resupply is lost. The
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of supplies and reinforcements to units closer to the front lines is therefore an important strategic goal for opposing forces. Some notable examples:
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A line of communication can also refer to a civilian management (corporations lines of communication)
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in World War II, in which the Germans cut off the French and British armies in Belgium (although the
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Route that connects an operating military unit with its supply base
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encircled the city, leading to its eventual surrender in July 1863
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in warfare, lines of communication were also the routes used by
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standard military abbreviation is LOC. There is also SLOC for
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Index

Line of communications
Lines of Communication

Allied forces
invasion of Normandy
Second World War
military unit
supply base
telegraph
radio
dispatch riders
Sea Line of Communication
interdiction
siege of Vicksburg
Ulysses S. Grant
Battle of France
Dunkirk evacuation
German 6th Army
Battle of Stalingrad
Ho Chi Minh trail
Vietnam War
Aerial refueling
Airlift
Army engineering maintenance
Expeditionary maneuver warfare
Integrated logistics support
Logistician
Logistics Officer
Main supply route
Military logistics

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