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]

A Russian soldier cutting barbed wire at the Battle of Stalingrad

* 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]

Vegetarian Meal, Ready-to-Eat

* 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]

Erwin Rommel (center)

* 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]

1. ↑ MRE Info. Retrieved on April 17, 2016.