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Post-strike bomb damage assessment photograph of Obrva Airfield, Serbia used in a Pentagon press briefing, May 5, 1999. A legitimate military target is an object, structure, individual, or entity that is considered to be a valid target for attack by belligerent forces according to the law of war during an armed conflict.
Expediency – War is a matter of expedients – von Moltke; Fog, friction, chance – War is characterized by fog, friction, and chance; Golden Bridge – To leave an opponent an opportunity to withdraw in order to not force them to act out of desperation – Sun Tzu; Iron Calculus of War – Resistance = Means x Will – Clausewitz
Concerns have also been raised regarding attacks involving nuclear weapons.It is considered plausible that terrorists could acquire a nuclear weapon. [10] In 2011, the British news agency, the Telegraph, received leaked documents regarding the Guantanamo Bay interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
A mounted archer of the Ming Dynasty Army fires a parthian shot. In the 4th century BCE, Sun Tzu said "the Military is a Tao of deception". [8] Diversionary attacks, feints, decoys; there are thousands of tricks that have been successfully used in warfare, and still have a role in the modern day.
Flanking maneuver: to attack an enemy or an enemy unit from the side, or to maneuver to do so. Forlorn hope : a band of soldiers or other combatants chosen to take the leading part in a military operation, such as an assault on a defended position, where the risk of casualties is high.
A frontal assault is a military tactic which involves a direct, full-force attack on the front line of an enemy force, rather than to the flanks or rear of the enemy. It allows for a quick and decisive victory, but at the cost of subjecting the attackers to the maximum defensive power of the enemy; this can make frontal assaults costly even if successful, and often disastrously costly if ...
During the early stages of World War II, the combined effects of German machine gun and tank gun firepower, enhanced by accurate indirect fire and air attack, often broke up Allied units before their assault commenced, or caused them to falter due to casualties among key unit leaders. In both the early modern and World War II examples, the ...
[1] [2] What the definition of a military strike is depends on which particular branch of the military is using them. [3] However, they do have formal, general, definitions in the United States Department of Defense's Joint Publication 1-02: [3] strike An attack to damage or destroy an objective or a capability. [4] raid