Military strategy

thumb|Castillo San Felipe del Morro, Puerto Rico. The fortress and walled city of [[Old San Juan are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.]]

thumb|upright=1.35|Depiction of 70 AD Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE)|siege of Jerusalem by [[Francesco Hayez, 1867]]

thumb|upright=1.5|Tanks and [[mechanised infantry of the 24th Panzer Division advancing through Ukraine, June 1942, typifying fast-moving combined arms forces of classic blitzkrieg]]

thumb|upright=1.35|Prussian (and later German) Chancellor [[Otto von Bismarck, right, with General Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, left, and General Albrecht von Roon, centre. Although Bismarck was a civilian politician and not a military officer, he wore a military uniform as part of the Prussian militarist culture of the time. From a painting by Carl Steffeck.]]

thumb|In this seventeenth-century plan of the fortified city of Casale Monferrato the citadel is the large star-shaped structure on the left.

thumb|300px|Ratification of the Peace of Münster|Treaty of Münster, between the Spanish and the Dutch, 1648

thumb|250px|A truce—not a compromise, but a chance for high-toned gentlemen to retire gracefully from their very civil declarations of warBy Thomas Nast in ''[[Harper's Weekly'', February 17, 1877, p. 132.]]

land warfare involving static fortification of lines

use of force or threat of violence focused for political purposes

victory at an unsustainable cost

thumb|upright=1.3|''Winfield Scott|Scott's great snake'', a cartoon map illustrating the Union blockade of the Confederacy during the [[American Civil War, known as the Anaconda Plan, illustrated by J.B. Elliott]] thumb|Douglas C-47 Skytrain|C47s unloading at [[Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, part of the airlift of supplies which broke the Soviet Union's 1948 land blockade of West Berlin]]

German General Staff's early-20th-century overall strategic plan

type of military operation

type of war, warfare and a theory of military strategy

military strategy of wearing down the enemy by continual losses in personnel and material

war between belligerents whose relative military power differs significantly

Latin adage translated as, "If you want peace, prepare for war"

military attacks by air aimed at destroying a country's ability to make war and will to fight

transnational highway in Europe

strategically important sparsely populated area near the Polish–Lithuanian border, between Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast) and Belarus

cessation of fighting by the losing party

military strategy during the Cold War with regard to the use of nuclear weapons

war between two states in open confrontation

the level of command that connects the details of tactics with the goals of strategy

A tercio (, Spanish for '[a] third') was a military administrative unit of the Spanish Army during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain and Habsburg Spain in the early modern period. They were the elite military units of the Spanish monarchy and essential pieces of the powerful land forces of the Spanish Empire, sometimes also fighting along with the navy. These forces were among the most dominant in the European battlefields for more than a century and a half.

military maneuver of abandoning territory and returning to a safer area

military tactic

type of surrender

military strategy

broad-scope, comprehensive military strategy

French military mobilisation plan, 1914

military post

thumb|Diagram of the encirclement of ISIL|ISIS forces in the [[Second Battle of Tikrit (2015). The blue arrows indicate allied attacks, while the red line is the line of encirclement as of 9 March 2015.]] thumb|Encirclement of Stalingrad thumb|350px|An encirclement during the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)

NATO standard for military map marking symbols

Maoist military strategy

military strategy where a defender delays and spreads out an attacker's advance

Military Doctrine

Military strategy developed from the 1920's and 30's Soviet Union

pre-emptive surprise attack employing overwhelming force

war plan of the German Army during the Battle of France in 1940

military tactic

military term

military strategy

position from which soldiers can watch enemy movements

military term

military strategy, also called island hopping

thumb|240px|A M1 Abrams|M1A1 tank firing its main gun

battle where both sides choose to fight at a chosen location and time

specific manifestation of warfare

constriction in a conduit or transport system, e.g. a narrowing of a road

a strategic planning method that some organizations use to make flexible long-term plan for decision makers

policy wherein governments or groups within a government allow or encourage extremist groups to perform attacks, e.g. allegedly in Italy during 1968–1982, when far-left and far-right groups performed bombings

Battlespace or battle-space is a term used to signify a military theatre of operations, in which multiple domains are contested at the same time. Domains where military competition take place include the air, land, sea, outer space, cyberspace and the information environment. The battlespace concept integrates the environment (to include weather and terrain), timeframe and other factors that must be understood to successfully apply combat power, protect the force, or complete the mission. Other relevant factors include enemy and friendly armed forces, the civilian population, infrastructure, s

defence policy of the British Empire (1919–1941), aiming to deter Japanese aggression with a base for a fleet of the Royal Navy in Singapore

REDIRECT Counterattack

outpost maintained by a sovereign state on its border, usually one of a series placed at regular intervals, to watch over and safeguard its border with a neighboring state

warfare in which one or more combatants are irregular military rather than regular forces

military strategy aimed at removing the leadership or command and control of a hostile government or group

concept in United States foreign policy

battlefield tactic designed to overwhelm or saturate the defenses