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	Battle of the Somme (1916) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One purpose of the battle was to draw German forces away from the battle of Verdun; however, by its end the losses on the Somme had exceeded those at Verdun.
		In one significant respect, the Battle of the Somme was a major strategic success for the British as on 12 July, in response to the Somme fighting and the situation in the east, Falkenhayn called off the German offensive at Verdun.
		The attack, known as the battle of Bazentin Ridge, was aimed at capturing the German second defensive position which ran along the crest of the ridge from Pozières, on the Albert–Bapaume road, southeast towards the villages of Guillemont and Ginchy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme (6617 words)

	Battle of attrition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A battle of attrition is a military engagement in which neither side has any tactical advantage, so that the only result of the fighting is the loss of men and materiel on both sides.
		Battles of attrition can be very lengthy, and test both sides' ability and willingness to make good their losses.
		Static battles in World War II, including the first phases of the Battle of Stalingrad.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_attrition (152 words)

	Battle of attrition: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Battles of attrition last a long time and test both sides' ability and willingness to make good their losses.
		The battle of stalingrad was a major turning point in world war ii, and is considered the bloodiest battle in human history and arguably one of the greatest come-backs...
		The battle of normandy was fought in 1944 between the german forces occupying western europe and the invading american, british, and canadian forces....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/battle_of_attrition.htm (910 words)

	Attrition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Attrition warfare, the military strategy of wearing down the enemy by continual losses in personnel and materiel
		Battle of attrition, a military engagement in which neither side has any tactical advantage
		War of attrition (game), a model of aggression in game theory, formulated by John Maynard Smith
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Attrition (152 words)

	The Hindu Business Line : The battle of attrition between labour and the BPO industry
		Attrition is very much in the air, it seems, because US Airways has said that it is hoping to reduce its employee count through attrition, according to a recent report on http://msnbc.msn.com.
		Employee or labour turnover is "the number of employees leaving over a period of time as a percentage of average number of employees of the period of time," says www.businessbureau-uk.co.uk and discusses the different formulae for computation of the measure.
		Such as, that the cost of attrition to a company is 70 per cent of an employee's annual salary, or 27 per cent of the company's operating expenses; and that `50-60 per cent of the attrition is because of bad hiring alone'.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /2005/10/05/stories/2005100500271100.htm (1356 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The Third Battle of Ypres, 1917
		The Third Battle of Ypres was opened by Sir Hubert Gough’s Fifth Army, with 1 Corps of Sir Herbert Plumer’s Second Army joining on its right and a corps of the French First Amy led by Anthoine to its left: a total of twelve divisions.
		This was followed by the Battle of Polygon Wood on 26 September and the Battle of Broodseinde on 4 October.
		Haig himself argued that when regarded as a battle of attrition, the German forces could less afford the loss of men than the Allies, who by this time were being supplemented by the entry into the war of the U.S. This view is shared by a number of German contemporaries.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/ypres3.htm (1470 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The Battle of the Somme, 1916
		Comprising the main Allied attack on the Western Front during 1916, the Battle of the Somme is famous chiefly on account of the loss of 58,000 British troops (one third of them killed) on the first day of the battle, 1 July 1916, which to this day remains a one-day record.
		The French Commander in Chief, Joffre, conceived the idea as a battle of attrition, the aim being to drain the German forces of reserves, although territorial gain was a secondary aim.
		Meanwhile the British attack was renewed in north-east, the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, by the Fourth Army on 15 September.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/somme.htm (1956 words)

	Battle of attrition: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A battle of attrition is a military engagement in which neither side has any tactical (tactical: tactics is the collective name for methods of winning a small-scale conflict, performing...
		[follow hyperlink for more...]) and the Battle of Normandy (Battle of Normandy: the battle of normandy was fought in 1944 between the german forces occupying western...
		War of attrition (War of attrition: the war of attrition was a limited war fought between egypt and israel from 1968...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/battle_of_attrition (279 words)

	MilitaryHistoryOnline.com - Okinawa
		The Battle of Okinawa is distinguished among battles, yet often unrecognized when referring to the great battles of the Second World War.
		Approximately 150,000 Okinawans, about a third of the population, perished.(1) At the battle's end, somewhere between a third and half of all surviving civilians were wounded.(2) No battle during the Second World War, except Stalingrad, had as massive a loss of civilian life.
		The Battle of Okinawa lost its place in history because the history that was being made in 1945 was itself so monumental.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/okinawa/default.aspx (1715 words)

	Attrition warfare - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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		Attrition warfare is a strategic concept that to win a war, one's enemy must be worn down to the point of collapse by continuous losses in personnel and materiel.
		In the sense that attrition warfare represents an attempt to grind down an opponent through superior numbers, it represents the opposite of the usual principles of war, where one attempts to achieve decisive victories through maneuver, concentration of force, surprise, and so forth.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Attrition_warfare (396 words)

	The Story of the Battle of Sekigahara
		When dawn broke on the morning of the 21st the preoccupation of most soldiers was to dry their sodden clothes after a driving rain encountered during troop movements the night before.
		A battle of attrition developed as, throughout the rest of the morning, more commanders ordered their men into the fray along the wavering battle front.
		Ishida was caught three days after the battle on Mount Ibuki, and executed with other captured leaders of the Western army on the riverbed at Kyoto a few days later.
	hkuhist2.hku.hk /nakasendo/sekibatl.htm (1295 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Special Report \| 1998 \| 10/98 \| World War I \| Passchendaele: Drowning in mud
		Passchendaele (officially the third battle of Ypres) is outstanding among the battles of World War I not only for its cost, but also for the conditions in which those casualties were incurred.
		The overture, on 7 June 1917 was the battle of Messines.
		What was supposed to be a thrusting breakthrough became a battle of attrition.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1998/10/98/world_war_i/203397.stm (385 words)

	A Death at the Battle of the Somme, 1916
		A Death at the Battle of the Somme, 1916
		The Battle of the Somme was one of the costliest of the First World War.
		At Verdun, near the middle of this line, French and German troops were bogged down in a battle of attrition.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /somme.htm (867 words)

	Images of Kursk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A highly illustrated account of the greatest tank battle in history.
		The majority of the photographs have been sourced from Russian archives and are previously unpublished.
		The images convey the true scale, intensity and horror of the fighting at Kursk, where over three million soldiers and over 5000 tanks engaged in a savage battle of attrition.
	www.brownreference.com /books/pages/imagesofkursk.html (83 words)

	Trucks Made the Difference at Verdun
		But the battle also featured a logistics innovation: the first extensive use of motor vehicles for military supply and transportation.
		At the end of the Battle of Verdun, the French emerged victorious, though at a huge cost in human lives and materiel.
		This goal of attrition in the offense was distinctly different from the classic German offensive objective of rapidly destroying the enemy force.
	www.almc.army.mil /alog/issues/SepOct03/Trucks_difference_Verdun.htm (1775 words)

	ASA: Attrition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Even though more effort is being directed to retaining customers these days, average attrition rates run from 15% - 25% annually, depending on product type.
		Given that the size of the customer base is relatively stable, fewer large banks with more branches are fighting fiercely over the same sized market place.
		Attrition is a complex multi-faceted problem, but taking the right actions can significantly reduce the problem.
	www.asacorp.com /solutions/bankattrition.jsp?&tc=true (198 words)

	battle of Verdun
		Verdun, battle of, the longest and one of the bloodiest engagements of
		A British offensive on the Somme relieved the pressure on Verdun in July, 1916, and by December the French had recovered most of the ground lost.
		The intention of the Germans had been a battle of attrition in which they hoped to bleed the French army white.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0850683.html (252 words)

	The Perilous Fight . Doolittle Raid & Midway \| PBS
		Having bragged that their islands were impregnable, the Japanese High Command felt humiliated.
		Admiral Yamamoto quickly developed plans for a major naval battle that he thought would secure an ultimate Japanese victory in the war.
		But by then, as a result of the battle of attrition, the Japanese had been effectively defeated.
	www.pbs.org /perilousfight/battlefield/doolittle_raid_midway (373 words)

	Battle of attrition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A battle of attrition is a military engagement in which neither side has any tactical advantage, so that the only result of the fighting is the loss of men and material on both sides.
		in World War II, including the first phases of the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Normandy.
		This page was last modified 16:38, 24 Apr 2005.
	www.brownsville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Battle_of_attrition (185 words)

	Torre wins battle of attrition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		ATLANTA (AP) -- In a battle of attrition, Bobby Cox decided to push Joe Torre to the limit with an intentional walk.
		It was the exclamation point in a battle of strategy that Torre won at every turn.
		And because he did, the Yankees evened the series at 2-2.
	www.canoe.ca /96WorldSeries/oct23_tor.html (421 words)

	Ganguly vs Waugh - battle of attrition - Sify.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ganguly vs Waugh - battle of attrition - Sify.com
		As time runs out, and cricket followers and statisticians alike keep looking for the time, when he will call it a day, while he (Waugh) lives for the day, when he can come back to India and avenge that defeat and conquer that last frontier - a series win against India in India.
		For the present, both Waugh and Ganguly are mentally preparing for their `Battle of Attrition` coming up in Australia this year end.
	sify.com /news/sports/fullstory.php?id=13200290 (772 words)

	Lieto and Holloway "gut" out wins at Subaru Ironman Canada - IRONMAN.com
		On a day that appeared to provide excellent race conditions, Subaru Ironman Canada became a battle of attrition, which was won by Chris Lieto and Karen Holloway.
		became a battle of attrition, which was won by Chris Lieto and Karen Holloway.
		If the men’s race was matter of who would fade the least, the women’s race was truly a battle of attrition, a battle that was won by a very gutsy Karen Holloway.
	vnews.ironmanlive.com /vnews/canada/1125295133 (948 words)

	Forbes.com: FEATURE-Argentina faces legal battle of attrition over debt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Oct 3 (Reuters) - The seizure of the president's jet and confiscation of navy vessels are among possible scenarios if Argentina's debt restructuring turns into a messy legal battle between the government and its creditors.
		Furious over the Argentine government's recent offer to pay only 25 cents for every dollar on $94 billion in debt it defaulted on last year, some creditors are bypassing the negotiating table and going straight to courtrooms in the United States and Europe to try to get their money back.
		A drawn-out legal battle would admittedly cut both ways though, since bondholders would be unable to collect money in the interim.
	www.forbes.com /home_europe/newswire/2003/10/03/rtr1099052.html (832 words)

	A Battle of Attrition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The dawn of the New Year is upon me and I am changing jobs in the first week January after a seven year stint with the University of Houston and once again testing the waters of corporate America.
		This blog was set up to document my sheer frustration with getting my degree hence the name and tag line “A Battle of Attrition – 3 steps forward 2 steps back, takes a long time to get you there but you still arrive.”.
		I have the degree now so there is no more forelorn battle and in a vague attempt to turn over a new leaf I’m going to have a positive title and tag line, well not positive but at least not painfully pessimistic :-).
	kittypaw.org /stephen (3022 words)

	Find in a Library: Attrition : forecasting battle casualties and equipment losses in modern war
		Attrition : forecasting battle casualties and equipment losses in modern war
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/df94e44cbfcb68c7a19afeb4da09e526.html (61 words)

	Battle of the Bulge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Battle of the Bulge from PBS American Experience
		Battle of the Bulge on the Web from Tim Spalding
		The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge by Hugh M. Cole, Publication 7-8 from CMH
	history.acusd.edu /gen/WW2Timeline/Bulge.html (147 words)

	Quote of the day: 'Battle of attrition' in 'move to super platforms' \| News.blog \| CNET News.com
		Quote of the day: 'Battle of attrition' in 'move to super platforms'
		In a story about big software companies moving back to offering customers a soup-to-nuts "stack" of software products, an analyst explains that consolidation and standardization have led to products from large "super platform" providers that are as good as "best of breed" products from more specialized companies.
		"We're getting into this battle of attrition as all (the vendors) try to move to super platforms," Burton Group analyst Peter O'Kelly said.
	news.com.com /2061-11729_3-6062771.html (300 words)

	A Family Ritual: As Serena Williams Wins Battle of Attrition - The Nigerian Village Square
		A Family Ritual: As Serena Williams Wins Battle of Attrition - The Nigerian Village Square
		A Rejoinder to Hakeem Babalola's "Another CNN Interview: Are They Fooling Nigerian President?"
		A Family Ritual: As Serena Williams Wins Battle of Attrition
	www.nigeriavillagesquare.com /board/showthread.php?t=1878 (1046 words)

	DOD cyberwarriors in a war of attrition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The paper appeared in the 2005 Information Assurance Proceedings publication produced for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society’s Systems, Man and Cybernetics IA Workshop held in June at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, but was announced at the Army IT Conference in Las Vegas earlier that month.
		“Unfortunately, attrition is a reasonable characterization of our defensive computer network strategy today, with one major caveat,” he said.
		Hunt went on to say, “It’s probably only a slight exaggeration to say we are fighting an attrition battle where we are the only ones being attrited.”
	www.fcw.com /article89526-07-11-05-Web (302 words)

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