But it will certainly try to achieve tactical surprise, as military commanders say.

Anyway, their only real chance lay in achieving complete surprise.

It was as if no one in the house had heard the shouting or the clash of arms outside, for we achieved complete surprise.

Launched as scheduled on 17 May the strikes achieved complete surprise.

The frigate presented the same problem - how to achieve surprise.

There had been no declaration of war, and they achieved surprise.

Despite the heavy security of the place, they had achieved almost complete surprise.

During the first phase of the operation the Germans achieved surprise.

With the help of dense snowfall, the attack achieved nearly total surprise.

I'm rather pleased that we appear to have achieved tactical surprise.