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Military strategy
- Phase (combat)Phase (combat) is the term military planners use to describe a distinct period within a longer operation, one link in a serial chain of logically connected…
- EncirclementEncirclement is the military term for one of the most desperate situations a fighting force can face: isolated, surrounded, and cut off from any help.
- Military strategyMilitary strategy sits at a peculiar intersection: it is the art of violence in service of politics. Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian theorist who lived…
- Attrition warfareAttrition warfare is built on a single, brutal idea: you do not defeat your enemy in one blow. You grind them down, loss by loss, until they have nothing…
- FortificationA fortification is a military construction built to defend territory in war, and to hold rule over a region in peacetime.
- MilitarismMilitarism is the belief that a state should maintain a strong military capability and use it aggressively to expand national interests and values.
- Strategic goal (military)A strategic military goal is the highest level of organisational achievement in any military organisation. It sits at the very top of the planning hierarchy…
- Trench warfareTrench warfare turned the ground itself into a weapon. A defender crouched in a ditch, shielded from small arms and substantially sheltered from artillery…
- Deterrence theoryIn 1966, Thomas Schelling published a book titled Arms and Influence that redefined how scholars understood the use of threats in international relations.
- Grand strategyGrand strategy is the art of directing every instrument a nation possesses, military and nonmilitary alike, toward a single political end.
- BlitzkriegBlitzkrieg lit up the front pages of Western newspapers in September 1939, when journalists scrambling to describe the German assault on Poland landed on a…