battlefield tactics
Wartime movement plans
Battlefield tactics are the methods and maneuvers used to gain advantage in combat—positioning troops, timing attacks, exploiting terrain, flanking enemies.
Tactics operate at the level of individual engagements, distinct from strategy, which concerns broader campaign objectives.
The term extends to any competitive situation: The lawyer's battlefield tactics overwhelmed the opposition.
- encirclementSurrounding enemy forces completely
- flankingAt the sides of
- divide and conquerOvercome by fragmenting opposition
- ambushSurprise strike from concealment
- hit and runLeaving after causing accident
leapfrogging · assault · fire and maneuver · feint · enfilade · high ground · fortification · trench warfare · counterattack · shield wall · guerrilla warfare · tactical withdrawal · delaying action · urban combat · blitzkrieg · frontal assault · envelopment · perimeter defense
- WWI militarytrenches, ANZAC, trench warfare, Tommies, Western Front
- Early Modern Warfaremuskets, musketeers, pikemen, pikes, cannons
- military tacticsflanking, maneuver, ambush, combat maneuvers, flanking maneuver
- military trainingdrill instructor, training manual, combat drills, drilling, drill weekend
- Revolutionary WarGeorge Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Paul Revere, Betsy Ross flag
- warfarecombat, attack, war, armed conflict, military strategy
battlefield tacticsgrand strategy
Long-term national military planning
strategic planning · national strategy · geopolitical strategy · war planning · campaign strategy
battlefield tacticsdiplomacy
Negotiation between nations
peace negotiations · diplomatic solutions · treaty-making · conflict resolution · soft power
battlefield tacticschaos
Complete disorder and confusion
disorganization · panic · rout · disorder · mob action