Tactics and Strategy

Historically speaking, military operations on urbanized terrain (MOUT) have created casualty figures that are extraordinary compared to similar operations conducted in different types of environments. The casualties in MOUT present a significant challenge to small unit leaders.

Here are six commanders who were dealt bad hands, but bluffed and ended up flush.

When "strategy" gets thrown around by politicians and the media, you can bet it's being misused.

History remembers trench warfare as wasteful, futile, and uninspired, but in reality it was a deeply thought-out system that underwent constant revision. Here's how it worked during World War I.

We present everything you need to know about facing your foes, and all of life's battles, based on the book The 33 Strategies of War by best-selling author Robert Greene.

Explains how military strategy involves the planning, coordination, and general direction of military operations, while military tactics involve the implementation of strategy.

A new book unfolds how the "military-entertainment complex" entices soldiers to war and treats them when they return.

Before the U.S. military suspended a course for senior officers on Islam, instructors lectured that a "total war" would be necessary to protect the United States from an Islamic menace. "Islam must change or we will facilitate its self-destruction," Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley asserted at the military's Joint Forces Staff College.

I am asking for military tactics that achieved the greatest victories against other military forces of their time period. Basically, who was able to beat the pants of the other guy the best or able to overcome overwhelming odds with superior planning?

In this list a military disaster is the unexpected and sound defeat of one side in a battle or war, sometimes changing the course of history.

There are Seven Classical Maneuvers of War: penetration of the center, envelopment of a single flank, envelopment of both flanks, attack in oblique order, feigned retreat, attack from a defensive position and the indirect approach.

Military tactics are the science and art of organizing a military force, and the techniques for combining and using weapons and military units to engage and defeat an enemy in battle. Changes in philosophy and technology have been reflected in changes to military tactics; in contemporary military science tactics are the lowest of three planning levels: (i) strategic, (ii) operational, and (iii) tactical.