List of military tactics
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Contents
Principles
- Identification of objectives
- Concentration of effort
- Exploiting prevailing weather
- Exploiting night
- Maintenance of a reserve
- Economy of Force
- Force protection
- * Dispersal or spacing
- * Camouflage
- * Deception
- *Electronic Counter Measures
- ** Electronic Counter Counter Measures
- ** Radio silence
- Use of fortifications
- * Fieldworks (entrenchments)
- ** Over Head Protection (OHP)
- ** Revetting
- ** Sangars
- ** Shellscrapes/Foxholes
- * Strongpoints
- Use and improvement of terrain
- * Height
- * 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
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)
- Fire and Movement
- * Overwatch
- ** Bounding Overwatch
- *Center Peel
- *Leapfrogging - This is the military tactic of using a combination of suppressive fire with offensive forward movement. As members of a unit (fireteam to platoon level) fire at the enemy, other members advance to cover; these two groups continually switch roles as they close with the enemy. This process may be done by "leapfrogging" by fireteams, but is usually done within fireteams along a squad/platoon battle line to simulate a overwhelming movement towards the enemy and make it more difficult for the enemy to distinguish specific targets. This military tactic takes continual of training and focused coordination to be effectively practiced on the modern battlefield.
- Patrolling
- * Reconnaissance Patrol
- * Fighting Patrol
- * Standing Patrol (OP/LP)
- Ambush
- * Linear Ambush
- * 'L' Ambush
- * Area Ambush
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
- * Flank attack
- * Attrition warfare
- Interdiction - Severing or disrupting lines of communication and supply
- 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
- * Motorised operations
- * Tank desant
- * Mechanised operations
- * Armoured operations
- * Raiding
- Preemptive Strike
- Disrupting Communications
- * Electronic counter measures e.g Jamming
- Salami tactics
- Divide and Conquer
Defensive tactics
- Basic Principles
- * 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
Deception
- 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
See also
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