battle reports
War situation summaries
Battle reports are accounts of military engagements, documenting what happened during combat operations.
The term extends to detailed summaries in strategy games and tabletop wargaming, where players receive automated or written breakdowns of encounters: The battle report showed we lost three units to flanking fire.
In gaming communities, battle reports often take narrative form, recounting campaigns with maps and commentary.
- dispatchesOfficial urgent messages
- field notesDocumentation from fieldwork
- war diaryRecord of military operations
- eyewitness accountsReports from direct observers
- encrypted messagesData rendered unreadable deliberately
communiqué · oral history · chronicles · journals · maps · theater of operations · military intelligence · chain of command · orders · gunfire · casualty lists · kill count · radio transmissions · diaries · wounds · combat · tally · advance
- Civil War recordsmilitary records, service records, Union Army, casualty lists, Union soldiers
- military recordsmilitary records, service records, military rosters, military archives, naval records
- military reportsintelligence reports, dispatches, casualty lists, troop movements, enemy positions
- Napoleon correspondenceletters, dispatches, missives, personal letters, military orders
- war documentspeace treaties, surrender documents, military dispatches, military orders, war diaries
- war mediawar films, war footage, war correspondents, war correspondent, war reporting
battle reportspeace treaties
Formal agreements ending wars
diplomatic cables · peace accords · surrender documents · truce negotiations · peace proposals