Vanguard

In the vanguard (French: avant -garde ) is a small military unit. Another name for vanguard is in the parlance of the cavalry vanguard. Your job is to educate, occupying important positions and winning time advantages over the enemy ( for example, by a vanguard captures an opponent's advance, so that the majority can grab him at the edge).

The Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausewitz leads in his work On War, this: "The effects of such vanguard go so by the mere observation of the resistance across, and this resistance is not only suited to the corps the time to provide what it needs to make ready for battle, but also to bring the enemy measures and intentions to an earlier development, hence the observation to increase significantly. "

Depending on the tactical level, there are a few scouts to entire battalions. Troops marching at the end of a column are called rear.