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Principles

• Identification of objectives
• Concentration of effort
• Exploiting prevailing weather
• Exploiting night
• Maintenance of reserve forces
• Economy of force
• Force protection
  • Force dispersal
  • Military Camouflage
  • Deception
    • Perfidy
    • False flag
  • Electronic countermeasures
    • Electronic counter-counter-measures
    • Radio silence
• Fortification
  • Fieldworks (entrenchments)
    • Over Head Protection (OHP)
    • Revetting
    • Sangars
    • Shellscrapes/Foxholes
  • Strongpoints
• Use and improvement of terrain
  • High ground
  • Protection
  • Natural barriers - e.g. rivers
  • Obstacles and barriers - man made
    • Wire
    • Anti Vehicle Ditches
    • Anti Vehicle "Berms" (knife edges)
• Multiple Axis of Movement
• Reconnaissance
• Fire Attacks

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Small Unit Tactics and Drills

• Infantry Minor Tactics
  • Fire and movement or "pepperpotting"
  • Basic Drill
  • Contact Drill
  • Immediate Ambush Drill
  • Counter Ambush Drill
• Hull-down (in armoured warfare)
• Shoot-and-scoot
• Fire and Movement
  • Four Fs
  • Overwatch
    • Bounding Overwatch
  • Center Peel
• Patrolling
  • Reconnaissance Patrol
  • Fighting Patrol
  • Standing Patrol (OP/LP)
• Ambush
  • Linear Ambush
  • 'L' Ambush
  • Area Ambush
• Guerrilla

Infantry Minor Tactics or IMTs are the very basic tactics that are employed at the squad, section or platoon level. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Infantry Minor Tactics. ... Infantry Minor Tactics or IMTs are the very basic tactics that are employed at the squad, section or platoon level. ... A tank in hull-down, turret-down, and hidden positions behind a crest of ground. ... It has been suggested that Mechanized warfare be merged into this article or section. ... The term shoot and scoot refers to an artillery tactic of firing at a target and then immediately moving away from the location where the shots were fired. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Infantry Minor Tactics. ... The Four Fs is a military term used in the United States military, especially during World War II. Designed to be easy to remember, the Four Fs are as follows: Find - Locate the enemy Fix - Pin them down with suppressing fire Flank - Send soldiers to the enemys sides... Bounding overwatch, also known as leapfrogging or simply bounding, is the military tactic of alternating movement of coordinated units to allow, if necessary, suppressive fire in support of offensive forward movement or defensive disengagement. ... Center Peel, or simply Peel for short, is a type of retreat practiced by modern-day infantry. ... Patrolling is a military tactic. ... An ambush is a long established military tactic in which an ambushing force uses concealment to attack an enemy that passes its position. ... Guerilla may refer to Guerrilla warfare. ...

Offensive tactics

• Ambush
• Skirmish
• Rapid dominance
  • Blitzkrieg
  • Carpet bombing
  • Human wave attack
  • Shock and Awe
• Planned attack
  • Use of Supporting Fire
  • Indirect Fire Support
  • Flying wedge (used by Alexander the Great)
  • the "refuse" (cavalry formation)
  • Frontal assault
  • Penetration or infiltration
  • Pincer movement
  • Flanking maneuver
  • Attrition warfare
• Interdiction - Severing or disrupting lines of communication and supply
  • Air interdiction
• Control MSR (Main supply routes)
• Envelopment tactics
  • Circumvallation
  • Finnish motti tactics
  • Siege
  • Vertical envelopment
    • Airborne Forces
    • Air Mobile Forces
• Rapid deployment
  • Capturing key points
  • Airborne operations
  • Air Mobile operations
  • Amphibious operations
  • Motorized operations
  • Tank desant
  • Mechanized operations
  • Armored operations
  • Raiding
• Preemptive Strike
• Disrupting Communications
  • Electronic countermeasures
  • Radar Jamming
  • Radio Jamming
• Divide and Conquer

An ambush is a long established military tactic in which an ambushing force uses concealment to attack an enemy that passes its position. ... See also the town of Battle, East Sussex, England Generally, a battle is an instance of combat between two or more parties wherein each group will seek to defeat the others. ... Insert non-formatted text here This article is about the military term. ... The phrase carpet bombing refers to the use of large numbers of unguided gravity bombs, often with a high proportion of incendiary bombs, to attempt the complete destruction of a target region, either to destroy personnel and materiel, or as a means to demoralize the enemy (see terror bombing). ... This article is about the military tactic. ... Shock and awe, technically known as rapid dominance, is a military doctrine based on the use of overwhelming decisive force, dominant battlefield awareness, dominant maneuvers, and spectacular displays of power to paralyze an adversarys perception of the battlefield and destroy its will to fight. ... Fire Support is a military term referring to long-range firepower provided to a front-line unit. ... Fire Support is a military term referring to long-range firepower provided to a front-line unit. ... A flying wedge is a charging technique in which troops are arrayed to form a wedge or V shape. ... The military tactic of frontal assault is a direct, hostile movement of forces towards enemy forces in a large number, in an attempt to overwhelm the enemy. ... In warfare, infiltration tactics involve small, lightly-equipped infantry forces attacking enemy rear areas while bypassing enemy front-line strongpoints, isolating them for attack by follow-on friendly troops with heavier weapons. ... A pincer movement whereby the blue force doubly envelops the red force. ... “Flanking” redirects here. ... This article is about the military strategy. ... Air interdiction is the use of aircraft to attack tactical ground targets that are not in close proximity to friendly ground forces. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with contravallation. ... In military terms, a salient is a battlefield feature that projects into enemy territory. ... A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition, often accompanied by an assault. ... Aerial warfare is the use of military aircraft and other flying machines in warfare, including military airlift of cargo to further the national interests as was demonstrated in the Berlin Airlift. ... This article is about a military strategy involving land troops dispatched from naval ships. ... Soviet tank desant drill, on a BT-7 Model 1935 Tank desant is a military combined arms tactic, where infantry soldiers would ride into an attack on tanks. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Armoured warfare in modern warfare is understood to be the use of armoured fighting vehicles as a central component of the methods of war. ... A raid is a brief attack, normally performed by a small military force of commandos, or by irregulars. ... Preemptive war (or preemptive attack) is waged in an attempt to repel or defeat an imminent offensive or invasion, or to gain a strategic advantage in an impending (usually unavoidable) war. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Radar jamming is the intentional emission of radio frequency signals to interfere with the operation of a radar by saturating its receiver with false information. ... Radio jamming is the transmission of radio signals that disrupt communications that decrease the signal to noise ratio. ... In politics and sociology, divide and rule (also known as divide and conquer) is a strategy of gaining and maintaining power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into chunks that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy. ...

Defensive tactics

• Basic Principles
  • Defence in depth
  • Mutual Support (e.g by crossfire)
  • All round defence
• Fighting withdrawal
  • Reserved demolitions
  • Scorched earth
  • Booby traps
  • Center Peel
    • Minefields
  • Trench warfare
• Counter attack
  • Counter battery fire
  • QRF (quick-reaction force)
• Delaying Defence
  • Break contact
• Deep defence
• Hedgehog defence

Defence in depth is a military strategy sometimes also called elastic defence. ... A crossfire (also known as interlocking fire) is a military term for the siting of weapons (often automatic weapons such as machine guns) so that their arcs of fire overlap, yay. ... All round defence is a defensive posture, usually adopted in times of confusion by all military units from squad up. ... A scorched earth policy is a military tactic which involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while advancing through or withdrawing from an area. ... This article is about an antipersonnel trap designed for use against humans. ... Center Peel, or simply Peel for short, is a type of retreat practiced by modern-day infantry. ... “Minefield” redirects here. ... Trench warfare is a form of war in which both opposing armies have static lines of defense. ... Counterattack is a military science term for a type of attack by defending force against an enemy attacking force. ... For the thrash metal band, see Artillery (band) Historically, artillery refers to any engine used for the discharge of projectiles during war. ... Deep defence or defence on the deep was a military tactic used especially by the Wehrmacht under the Battle of Normandy. ... In chess, the Hedgehog Defence is a variant of the Queens Indian Defense. ...

Deception

"All Warfare is based on deception"- Sun Tzu Sun Tzu (孫子 also commonly written in pinyin: Sūn Zǐ) was the author of The Art of War, an influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy (for the most part not dealing directly with tactics). ...

• Deception and misdirection
  • Camouflage
  • Stealth
  • Disinformation
  • Feint or diversionary attacks
  • Electronic warfare
  • Force multiplication

• Use of surprise
  • Parthian shot
  • Hit-and-run tactics
  • Irregular warfare

This article or section includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Misdirection is a form of deception in which the attention of an audience is focused on one thing in order to distract its attention from another. ... An infant Cuttlefish blends into the surrounding sand substrate. ... F-117 Stealth Fighter Stealth technology covers a range of techniques used with aircraft, ships and missiles, in order to make them less visible (ideally invisible) to radar, infrared and other detection methods. ... Disinformation, in the context of espionage, military intelligence, and propaganda, is the spreading of deliberately false information to mislead an enemy as to ones position or course of action. ... Feints are maneuvers designed to distract or mislead. ... Electronic warfare (EW) has three main components: Electronic Attack (EA) This is the active use of the electromagnetic spectrum to deny its use by an adversary. ... Force multiplication is a military tactic that is supposed to visually magnify a force, such as a division or an army, through means using decoy vehicles or use of terrain to deceivingly create a much larger force than it really is. ... The Parthian shot (or Parthian shaft) was a tactic employed by ancient Persian horse archers. ... Hit-and-run tactics is a tactical doctrine where the purpose of the combat involved is not to seize control of territory, but to inflict damage on a target and immediately exit the area to avoid the enemys defense and/or retaliation. ... Irregular soldiers in Beauharnois, Quebec, 19th century. ...

See also

• Military science
• Military strategy
• List of military strategies
• List of established military terms