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Strategy & Tactics was first published in January 1967 under its original editor, Chris Wagner, intended as a better alternative to Avalon Hill's magazine, The General. [1]: 101 Strategy & Tactics began life as a wargaming fanzine published by Wagner (then a staff sergeant with the US Air Force in Japan), at first in Japan, then moving to the United States with Wagner.
Encirclement – Both a strategy and tactic designed to isolate and surround enemy forces; Ends, Ways, Means, Risk – Strategy is much like a three legged stool of ends, ways, means balanced on a plane of varying degree of risk; Enkulette – A strategy used often in the jungle that aims at attacking the enemy from behind.
Military strategy is a set of ideas implemented by military organizations to pursue desired strategic goals. [1] Derived from the Greek word strategos, the term strategy, when first used during the 18th century, [2] was seen in its narrow sense as the "art of the general", [3] or "the art of arrangement" of troops.
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 ...
The Soviet Army: Operations and Tactics: Image title: via Federation of American Scientists: Author: U.S. Army Field Manual 100-2-1, 16 July 1984: Software used: Hewlett Packard MFP: Conversion program: Adobe Acrobat 9.4 Paper Capture Plug-in: Encrypted: no: Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) 792 x 612 pts (letter) Version of PDF format: 1.6
Many of the themes and ideas present in the Three Strategies are similar to those found in the other Seven Military Classics.The text contains almost no direct emphasis on battlefield strategy and tactics, instead focusing on logistical concerns: "concepts of government, the administration of forces; the unification of the people; the characteristics of a capable general; methods of nurturing ...
Cover of Strategy & Tactics #47, which contained the pull-out game Wolfpack. Wolfpack, subtitled "Submarine Warfare in the North Atlantic, 1942–44", is a solitaire board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1974 that simulates a four-month period during the Battle of the Atlantic.
Given the Communist Party's dominance over all spheres of Northern Vietnamese society, including the military struggle, it is impossible to understand NLF/PAVN organization, strategy and tactics without detailing party involvement. The bulk of the VC/NLF were initially southerners, with some distinctive southern issues and sensibilities.