LIST OF MILITARY TACTICS

This page contains a list of military tactics:

Contents

Principles

Small Unit Tactics and Drills

Offensive tactics

Defensive tactics

Deception

See also

Principles

★ Identification of objectives

★ Concentration of effort

★ Exploiting prevailing weather

★ Exploiting night

★ Maintenance of reserve forces

★ Economy of force

★ Force protection

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★ Force dispersal

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★ Military Camouflage

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★ Deception

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★ Perfidy

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★ False flag

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★ Electronic countermeasures

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★ Electronic counter-counter-measures

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★ Radio silence

★ Fortification

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★ Fieldworks (entrenchments)

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★ Over Head Protection (OHP)

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★ Revetting

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★ Sangars

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★ Shellscrapes/Foxholes

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★ Strongpoints

★ Use and improvement of terrain

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★ High ground

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★ Protection

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★ Natural barriers - e.g. rivers

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★ Obstacles and barriers - man made

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★ Wire

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★ Anti Vehicle Ditches

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★ Anti Vehicle "Berms" (knife edges)

★ Multiple Axis of Movement

★ Reconnaissance

★ Fire Attacks

Small Unit Tactics and Drills

★ Infantry Minor Tactics

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★ Fire and movement or "pepperpotting"

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★ Basic Drill

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★ Contact Drill

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★ Immediate Ambush Drill

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★ Counter Ambush Drill

★ Hull-down (in armoured warfare)

★ Shoot-and-scoot

★ Fire and Movement

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★ Four Fs

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★ Overwatch

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★ Bounding Overwatch

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★ Center Peel

★ Patrolling

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★ Reconnaissance Patrol

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★ Fighting Patrol

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★ Standing Patrol (OP/LP)

★ Ambush

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★ Linear Ambush

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★ 'L' Ambush

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★ Area Ambush

★ Guerrilla

Offensive tactics

★ Ambush

★ Skirmish

★ Rapid dominance

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★ Blitzkrieg

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★ Carpet bombing

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★ Human wave attack

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★ Shock and Awe

★ Planned attack

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★ Use of Supporting Fire

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★ Indirect Fire Support

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★ Flying wedge (used by Alexander the Great)

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★ the "refuse" (cavalry formation)

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★ Frontal assault

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★ Penetration or infiltration

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★ Pincer movement

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★ Flanking maneuver

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★ Attrition warfare

★ Interdiction - Severing or disrupting lines of communication and supply

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★ Air interdiction

★ Control MSR (Main supply routes)

★ Envelopment tactics

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★ Circumvallation

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★ Finnish motti tactics

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★ Siege

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★ Vertical envelopment

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★ Airborne Forces

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★ Air Mobile Forces

★ Rapid deployment

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★ Capturing key points

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★ Airborne operations

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★ Air Mobile operations

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★ Amphibious operations

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★ Motorized operations

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★ Tank desant

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★ Mechanized operations

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★ Armored operations

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★ Raiding

★ Preemptive Strike

★ Disrupting Communications

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★ Electronic countermeasures

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★ Radar Jamming

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★ Radio Jamming

★ Divide and Conquer

Defensive tactics

★ Basic Principles

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★ Defence in depth

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★ Mutual Support (e.g by crossfire)

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★ All round defence

★ Fighting withdrawal

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★ Reserved demolitions

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★ Scorched earth

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★ Booby traps

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★ Center Peel

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★ Minefields

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★ Trench warfare

★ Counter attack

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★ Counter battery fire

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★ QRF (quick-reaction force)

★ Delaying Defence

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★ Break contact

★ Deep defence

★ Hedgehog defence

Deception

"All Warfare is based on deception"- Sun Tzu

★ Deception and misdirection

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★ Camouflage

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★ Stealth

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★ Disinformation

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★ Feint or diversionary attacks

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★ Electronic warfare

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★ Force multiplication

★ Use of surprise

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★ Parthian shot

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★ Hit-and-run tactics

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★ Irregular warfare

See also

★ Military science

★ Military strategy

★ List of military strategies

★ List of established military terms