tank warfare
Mechanized ground battles
Tank warfare is military combat employing armored fighting vehicles—tanks—as the primary offensive force.
It emerged in World War I and dominated 20th-century ground warfare, emphasizing mobility, firepower, and protection.
Tank warfare involves coordinated maneuvers across open terrain: The desert campaign featured classic tank warfare.
The term often evokes large-scale armored engagements like those at Kursk or in the Gulf War.
- KurskRussian city and submarine
- reactive armorExplosive-lined protective plating
- blitzkriegFast, overwhelming military campaign
- turretProtruding fortified structure
- armor platingDefensive metal cladding
envelopment · caterpillar tracks · World War II · combined arms · fire and maneuver · armored divisions · armored corps · desert rats · Operation Desert Storm · shock and awe · Wehrmacht · pincer movement · flanking maneuvers · kill zone · cannon · autoloader · infantry · hull
- World War Itrenches, eastern front, Western Front, soldiers, battlefields
- WWItrenches, no man's land, no mans land, armistice, doughboys
- Tank warfaretanks, MBT, turret, hull, tracks
- war violencemassacre, bombardment, bombing, shelling, combat
- Middle East WarsGulf War, Iraq War, Six-Day War, Yom Kippur War, Iran-Iraq War
- military operationsoffensive, attack, marines, Desert Storm, NATO operations
tank warfareinfantry combat
Fighting by foot soldiers
guerrilla warfare · hand-to-hand combat · trench warfare · special operations · asymmetric warfare
tank warfarenaval warfare
Military operations at sea
air warfare · aerial combat · submarine warfare · aerial warfare · air combat
tank warfaretribal warfare
Combat between clan-based societies
medieval warfare · sword fighting · horse cavalry · drone warfare