What does FA stand for?

Flanking Attack

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Military and Government

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Flanking attacks were impossible, as frontline trenches extended across the Continent from the Atlantic to Switzerland.

The Wacko genius of armoured warfare: in the wake of World War I, ...

His troop engaged the enemy, while my troop carried out a flanking attack.

The dad and son fighting Taliban rebels together; EXCLUSIVE

His troop engaged the enemy, while my troopcarried out a flanking attack.

The father and son fighting the Taliban; Comrades in arms: Lee Dobbs ...

Knowing that they can't - at the present - make a frontal assault on public education, the privateers have launched a flanking attack intended to obtain their goal by creeping privatization.

NEA CAVES IN TO CREEPING PRIVATIZATION

The Marines were supposed to conduct a fixing attack in the center while VII Corps mounted a flanking attack to surround and annihilate the Republican Guard.

Principles of jointness. (Out of joint)(Cover Story)

His troop engaged the enemy, while my troop carried out a flanking attack.

The dad and son fighting Taliban rebels together; EXCLUSIVE

If his right, his trustworthy Africans and Spaniards, could break the Roman left, he could wheel inward and, with a flanking attack, totally smash the entire Roman army.

The day the world trembled: The course of civilization was determined ...