battle orders
Military engagement instructions
Battle orders are instructions issued to military units specifying their objectives, formations, and actions for combat.
The term covers everything from strategic directives to tactical assignments: The general issued battle orders at dawn.
By extension, battle orders can describe any authoritative instructions for a challenging undertaking: The coach gave his battle orders before the championship game.
- war strategyPlanning for armed conflict
- general staffSenior military planning officers
- war roomStrategic planning headquarters
- ambush tacticsSurprise attacks from concealment
- flanking maneuversAttacks targeting enemy sides
tactical retreat · chain of command · codebooks · defensive formations · front lines · contingency plans · field manual · encrypted messages · command hierarchy · signal flags · battlefield reports · resource allocation · counterattacks · intelligence analysis · reconnaissance missions · mission objectives · radio transmissions · command posts
- military recordsmilitary records, service records, after action report, military rosters, military archives
- military ordersKnights Templar, Templars, Knights Hospitaller, Teutonic Knights, Knights of Malta