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Attrition warfare is a military strategy consisting of belligerent attempts to win a war by wearing down the enemy to the point of collapse through continuous losses in personnel, materiel, and morale.[1] The word attrition comes from the Latin root atterere, meaning "to rub against", similar to the "grinding down" of the opponent's forces in attrition warfare.[2][3]
Attritionwarfare is a military strategy consisting of belligerent attempts to win a war by wearing down the enemy to the point of collapse through continuous...
frontal combat. In contrast to attritionwarfare where strength tends to be applied against strength, maneuver warfare attempts to apply strength against...
Attritionwarfare represents an attempt to grind down an opponent's ability to make war by destroying their military resources by any means possible,...
Look up attrition in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Attrition may refer to Attritionwarfare, the military strategy of wearing down the enemy by continual...
a massive attack on the French. Attritionwarfare was used by Kutuzov by burning Moscow's resources, guerrilla warfare by the Cossacks against any kind...
against all odds. He defeated Napoleon as commander-in-chief using attritionwarfare in the Patriotic war of 1812. Alexander I, the incumbent Tsar during...
eventually, the Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army would lose after the attritionwarfare. Historian Christian Appy states "search and destroy was the principal...
commanded by Mikhail Kutuzov, opted for a strategic retreat, employing attritionwarfare against Napoleon compelling the invaders to rely on an inadequate...
A military reserve, active reserve, reserve formation, or simply reserve, is a group of military personnel or units that is initially not committed to...
Black Look up Pyrrhic victory in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Attritionwarfare – Military strategy of wearing down the enemy Cadmean victory – Victory...
Jahan under the command of Emperor Jahangir in 1615. After a year of attritionwarfare, Rana Amar Singh I surrendered conditionally to the Mughal forces...
merit in attritionwarfare. It is usually relevant to a condition or state of war where one side depletes the resources of another through attrition. Specifically...
roughly 220,000 troops, which fought the Indonesian nationalists in attritionwarfare. The United States threatened to terminate financial aid for the Netherlands...
a military unit Fabian strategy – Wearing down the enemy by using attritionwarfare and indirection, while avoiding pitched battles or frontal assaults...
warfare after the war. Following World War I, "trench warfare" became a byword for stalemate, attrition, sieges, and futility in conflict. Field works have...
of the period were easily defensible, so the fighting was mostly attritionwarfare comprising sieges, raiding and skirmishing. Armies mostly consisted...
attrition and indirection. While avoiding decisive battles, the side employing this strategy harasses its enemy through skirmishes to cause attrition...
inexperience and naivete while denouncing the concepts of maneuver warfare in favor of attritionwarfare. Writer David Foster Wallace praised the book in interviews...
devised by Schlieffen, condemning the belligerents to four years of attritionwarfare. In 1956, Gerhard Ritter published Der Schlieffenplan: Kritik eines...
The Naval Special Warfare Development Group (NSWDG), abbreviated as DEVGRU ("Development Group")[note A] and commonly known as SEAL Team Six, is the United...
Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) would lose after the attritionwarfare. According to historian Christian Appy, "search and destroy was the...
official launch of the War of Attrition, characterized by large-scale shelling along the Suez Canal, extensive aerial warfare and commando raids. Hostilities...
financier who devoted his private life to the study of modern industrial warfare. Born Jewish and a convert to Calvinism, he spent considerable effort to...