Talk:List of military strategies and concepts

Overview
This is a list of military tactics, rather than military strategies. Military strategies are focussed on achieving geopolitical goals, rather than actual battlefield goals. Even though an actual "list" would be hard to compile and subjective because the strategy depends on the moment (and is thus unique), one could argue to compile a list more like: - Inavasion - Blockade - Scorched earth et cetera.

Operations like ambush, charge, human wave attack, and arguably most others that are currently on this list, would definately NOT be strategies, but tactics.

- You're right. Whoever originally put this page together didn't understand the difference between strategy and tactics. Lots of things are missing (Where's static defence? That's the reason I came to this page,) and lots of this currently on the list shouldn't be there, (Ambush? Strategy is supposed to be how an entire army fights its battles.) The Bryce (talk) 04:23, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Removed items
I'm removing the following entries from the list. They don't link to any articles, don't cite any references, and I can't find any. At a quick glance, they appear to have been added anonymously around end of '09 (I'm not going to track it down exactly). If someone wants to reinstate them, then at least provide some _credible_ citations to support them.


 * Palisidian Wave-Block Attack - A long horizontal line of about 500 soldiers, "wave", attack immediately followed or assisted by a solid square or rectangle, "block", of about 500 soldiers and then if needed another smaller "wave" of about 80 soldiers and another "block" of about 20 generals or senior officers.


 * Palisidian Prong - A main base of 250 soldiers with 3 spearhead shaped "prongs" (each consisting of about 80 soldiers) to encapsulate and destroy the oncoming attack in front of the base and to "tails" (each consisting of about 120 soldiers) that "fishhook" out the sides of the base to catch any enemies trying to skirt around the main defensive base. All this is followed by a small force of about 20 generals or senior officers.(Co-insides with the Palisidian Wave-Block Attack and follows behind it.)


 * Palisidian Guard - A simple block of about 250 soldiers to guard the camp or palace.(Co-insides and follows the Palisidian Prong.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by DKEdwards (talk • contribs) 21:28, 5 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I completely agree with this. The introduction paragraph even states that the listed strategies are "commonly recognized and referenced". To me that infers that every one listed should have at least a seperate stub for it, or a section of a larger article. Buddy23Lee (talk) 19:20, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Raqqa's strategy ?
Hey, the current Raqqa campaign seems to use a recurring pattern to move straight, then create isolated ISIS which it then nearly peacefully subdues. It reminds me of a WW2 strategy, in Western Europe, where Americans main forces where purposefully avoiding towns and major cities, which included fortress and nazi troups with correct firepower, leaving them lightly behind the frontline on US side, and where ultimatums and negociations allowed minimal fights and nazi surrenders.

Does anyone knows the name of this (these?) strategies/tactics ?

Please message me if you know. Yug (talk)  18:12, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Avoiding cities, even large towns, is an element of operational art, not strategy, and commenced on the Eastern Front, by the Soviet General Staff after it recognised the German failure in Stalingrad as the failure of manoeuvre theory. In Russian it would be стратегия избежания штурма городов, i.e. the strategy of evading city assaults. It made the Hitler-declared 'fortress cities' all the more idiotic.KlevaAstro (talk) 03:25, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

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Indirect approach
"fix weakness and attack strength"?! Surely it is the reverse, to fix (disable) strength and attack weakness KlevaAstro (talk) 01:17, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

No mention of cyberwarfare or the opposite?
Rather surprised to see the article has no mention of "cyber", not even a link to some other article. I actually visited the article in search of the specific term that is used to distinguish physical warfare from nonphysical attacks. Turned out to be "kinetic", but I didn't get it here, and it isn't in the article. There is definitely a linkage in that it has just been reported that a cyberattack triggered a kinetic response, which may be a historical first. Shanen (talk) 19:38, 6 May 2019 (UTC)