The term "salient" is derived from military salients. General Hermann Balck used the 11th Panzer Division to counterattack Soviet salients. The following locations are salients in of nations. There were a number of salients, but these were not particularly threatening. Underground galleries link the salients, caponiers and counterscarps to the central portions of the fort. Hence, reverse salients are the backward projections along similar, continuous lines. Salients can be formed in a number of ways. Large salients were perilous for their occupants because they could be assailed from three sides. Indian army had seized salients in the Eastern border from 21 November 1971.