List Of Military Strategies And Concepts

List of military strategies and concepts and terms and the key people who created them:

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

A[edit]

• Achilles' heel - deadly weakness in spite of overall strength, which can actually or potentially lead to downfall
• Aircraft
• Aircraft carrier
• Air Force
• Air power
• Alexander the Great
• ALICE: All-Purpose Lightweight Individual Carrying Equipment
• Allied Powers
• Ally
• Amateur radio
• Ammunition
• Arsenal
• Attrition warfare

B[edit]

• Balance of terror
• Ballistic missile
• Barbed wire
• Battle of Asculum - Pyrrhic victory
• Battle of Britain
• Battle of Bunker Hill - Pyrrhic victory - "Don't shoot 'till you see the whites of their eyes!"
• Battle of Heraclea - Pyrrhic victory
• Battle of Stalingrad
• Battle of the Bulge
• Blitzkrieg and The Blitz
• Blockade / Siege / Investment
• Bombing a civilian population
• Bombing of Japan
• Bug-out bag
• Bullet
• Bullying

C[edit]

• Camouflage
• Cartridge (firearms)
• Censorship
• Coercion
• Cold War
• Concertina wire
• Conquerors
• Containment
• Counter-propaganda and Propaganda
• Cruiser
• Cryptology

D[edit]

• Decapitation (military and political strategy)
• Delaying action
• Divide and conquer
• Deception
• Demoralization (warfare)
• Denial (Military strategy)
• Deterrence theory
• Doctrine: Monroe Doctrine, Truman Doctrine, Reagan Doctrine, Bush Doctrine

E[edit]

• Exhaustion (Military strategy)

F[edit]

• First strike - nuclear weapons
• Food storage
• Foreign policy - American foreign policy
• Fortification
• FOB: forward operating base
• Force multiplier: A capability that, when added to and employed by a combat force, significantly increases the combat potential of that force and thus enhances the probability of successful mission accomplishment. (US DOD definition.)

G[edit]

• Geneva Convention
• Genghis Khan

H[edit]

• Hannibal - Second Punic War
• Human wave attack

I[edit]

• Infantry
• Intercontinental ballistic missile
• Interdependence
• Irritating an opponent (military and political tactic)
• Isolationism

J[edit]

• Julius Caesar

K[edit]

• Kamikaze
• Knife

L[edit]

• Leapfrogging (military strategy)

M[edit]

• Maneuver warfare
• M14 automatic rifle - M1A semi-automatic rifle - M1 Gardand semi-automatic rifle
• M16 automatic rifle - AR-15 semi-automatic rifle
• Machine gun
• Maginot Line
• Marine Corps
• Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE)^[1]
• Media censorship
• Military hand signals
• Military ration
• Molon labe
• Monroe Doctrine
• Morse Code
• Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle
• Mutually assured destruction

N[edit]

• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
• Naval warfare
• Naval Special Warfare - Navy SEALs
• Nonverbal communications
• Nuclear target structures
• Nuclear war
• Nuclear weapons

O[edit]

• Obfuscation

P[edit]

• George S. Patton, Jr.
• Pillbox (military)
• Pistol
• Second Punic War - Hannibal
• Psychological warfare
• Propaganda and Counter-propaganda
• Pyrrhic victory

R[edit]

• Reagan Doctrine
• Rifles: M-16/AR-15, M1 Garand
• Rollback
• Erwin Rommel
• Rules for Radicals
• Rules of engagement

S[edit]

• SEALs
• Shock and awe
• Shotgun
• Siege
• Sniper
• Soldier
• SOP or S.O.P.: standard operating procedure(s)
• Strategy
• Strategic Nuclear Triad
• Submarine
• Sun Tzu - author of the Art of War

T[edit]

• Terrorism - Terror - Terrorist
• Trojan Horse

U[edit]

• United States Marine Corps
• United States Navy SEALs

V[edit]

W[edit]

• War
• Warship
• World War II in the Air

See also[edit]

• Military
• Firearms
• Veterans
• Military History
• Napoleon
• United States Army
• United States Navy
• United States Air Force
• United States Marine Corps
• American Military Decorations

References[edit]