battlefield maneuvers
Wartime troop repositioning
Battlefield maneuvers are the tactical movements of military forces during combat—repositioning troops, flanking enemy positions, or executing strategic retreats.
The term extends to any calculated repositioning in competitive situations: The candidate's battlefield maneuvers in the primary left his opponents scrambling.
In military training, maneuvers are large-scale exercises simulating combat conditions.
- flankingAt the sides of
- holding actionTactic to stall enemy advance
- encirclementSurrounding enemy forces completely
- deploymentOrganized distribution of resources
- guerrilla tacticsAsymmetric combat by mobile fighters
hit and run · charge · pincer movement · double envelopment · hammer and anvil · reconnaissance · diversionary tactics · breakthrough · intelligence gathering · feint · repositioning · defensive strategy · high ground · forward position · envelopment · infiltration · counterattack · ambush
battlefield maneuverstrench warfare
Combat from fortified ditches
fortification · siege warfare · garrison duty · fortress defense · attrition warfare
battlefield maneuversstrategic planning
Defining organizational direction systematically
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