List of military tactics

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This page contains a list of military tactics:

Contents 1 Principles 2 Small Unit Tactics and Drills 3 Offensive tactics 4 Defensive tactics 5 Deception

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
• 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
• 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

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:

• Military science
• Military strategyde:Liste militärischer Taktiken

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