siege tactics
Fortress assault methods
Siege tactics are the military strategies and methods used to capture a fortified position by surrounding it, cutting off supplies, and wearing down defenders over time rather than through direct assault.
These approaches include blockades, bombardment, tunneling, and psychological warfare.
The term extends figuratively to any prolonged campaign of pressure designed to force capitulation: The union employed siege tactics against management, refusing to budge until demands were met.
- battering ramHeavy beam for breaching
- trebuchetCounterweight-powered projectile launcher
- boiling oilHeated fat for warfare
- sappingGradually draining vitality
- mining tunnelsUnderground passages for extraction
food rationing · countermining · parley · bastions · fortifications · moats · engineering corps · petard · blockade · cut off supplies · scaling ladders · ultimatums · terms of surrender · psychological pressure · intimidation · arrow slits · castle defense · drawbridge
- strategystrategy, grand strategy, tactic, strategist, master plan
- East Asian Warfarebattles, warriors, soldiers, generals, infantry formations
- military tacticsflanking, maneuver, ambush, battle formations, combat maneuvers
- Roman siegesMarcellus, Archimedes, city walls, Sicily, death ray
- warfarebattle, combat, attack, war, armed conflict
- fortificationsfort, fortress, fortresses, citadel, citadels
siege tacticspitched battle
Intense preplanned military confrontation
frontal assault · mobile warfare · cavalry charge · blitzkrieg · shock tactics
siege tacticsholdout
One refusing to participate
last stand · sally · sortie · breakout · relief operations
siege tacticsblitzkrieg
Fast, overwhelming military campaign
lightning war · quick strike · shock and awe · shock tactics · surprise attack