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reverse slope

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reverse slope [ri′vərs ¦slōp]
(geology)
A hill descending away from a ridge.


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Positioning howitzer platoons to support operations simultaneously with overlapping coverage optimizes flexibility and minimizes the challenge of firing at targets on the reverse slope of mountains or hills.
If Napoleon's head was stuffed with grand ideas of empire and huge continental armies, all as a means to establish a Europe based on post-revolutionary principles, Wellington's mind was instead full of logistical problems in moving a few thousand men in and out of battle, and setting them in defensive positions on reverse slopes where in relative safety they could blast apart columns of infantry approaching with real revolutionary elan.
Technology is advancing so rapidly that those of us who rely on more traditional ways to protect assets will suddenly find we are on the reverse slope of the power curve.
 
 
 
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