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Guerrilla tactics – Involves ambushes on enemy troops. Usually used by insurgency. Heavy force – A counterinsurgency strategy that seeks to destroy an insurgency with overwhelming force while it is still in a manageable state
Penetration of the center: This involves exploiting a gap in the enemy line to drive directly to the enemy's command or base.Two ways of accomplishing this are separating enemy forces then using a reserve to exploit the gap (e.g., Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)) or having fast, elite forces smash at a weak spot (or an area where your elites are at their best in striking power) and using reserves ...
Military tactics encompasses the art of organizing and employing fighting forces on or near the battlefield. They involve the application of four battlefield functions which are closely related – kinetic or firepower, mobility, protection or security, and shock action. Tactics are a separate function from command and control and logistics.
Changes in philosophy and technology over time have been reflected in changes to military tactics. Tactics should be distinguished from military strategy , which is concerned with the overall means and plan for achieving a long-term outcome, and operational art , an intermediate level in which the aim is to convert the strategy into tactics.
Success at the tactical level is no guarantee of success at the operational level since mastery of operational art demands strategic skills but not vice versa. Without a strong grounding in the theory and application of operational art, a successful tactician has little hope of making the demanding leap from tactics.
Basic Battle Skills is a field training manual formerly issued to individual soldiers in the British Army. [ 1 ] Editions were modified over a period of approximately 25 years before the book was withdrawn from issue.
Basic fighter maneuvers (BFM) are tactical movements performed by fighter aircraft during air combat maneuvering (ACM, also called dogfighting), to gain a positional advantage over the opponent. [1] BFM combines the fundamentals of aerodynamic flight and the geometry of pursuit, with the physics of managing the aircraft's energy-to-mass ratio ...
Pages in category "Defensive tactics" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. All round defence; B.