the light of his grand plan, might prove decisive in themselves; if they show signs of doing so they will be pressed home and their results exploited to the full. But the probability is that these operations will be conceived as diversions, primarily designed to dissipate the forces with which we could effectively protect the enemy's ultimate objective. Such operations are likely to include:(a) Bombing attacks from the East and South on points vital from either the material or the moral point of view, or from both.