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Military tactic
Defeat in detail, or divide and conquer, is a military tactic of bringing a large portion of one's own force to bear on small enemy units in sequence, rather than engaging the bulk of the enemy force all at once. This exposes one's own units to many small risks but allows for the eventual destruction of an entire enemy force.[1]
^Erickson, Edward J (2003). Defeat in Detail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912–1913. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 0-275-97888-5.
Defeatindetail, or divide and conquer, is a military tactic of bringing a large portion of one's own force to bear on small enemy units in sequence,...
or support as well as confusing the enemy in preparation for annihilation. Flanking maneuver Defeatindetail Interdiction – severing or disrupting lines...
Macmillan. ISBN 0-313-31516-7. Erickson, Edward (2003). DefeatinDetail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912–1913. Westport: Palgrave Macmillan. Finkel...
pacing", and GameSpy spoke highly of its attention to detail. Reviewers also praised Day of Defeat for its promotion of teamwork through purposefully tight...
after the defeat of their regular armies, the Spanish and Portuguese people successfully rose against the Napoleonic troops and defeated a highly superior...
advantage of speed to cut communications and isolate formations for later defeatindetail. The retreat of the center of the Athenian and Platean citizen-soldiers...
launch an incursion or strike. Defeatindetail – Bringing a large portion of one's own force to bear on small enemy units in sequence, rather than engaging...
years 1949 through 1973. Creeping normality Death by a thousand cuts Defeatindetail Gradualism Slippery slope Structuring Deterrence theory Slantchev,...
defeat French under Leissegues (French) off Santo Domingo 4 July – Russians defeat French in Narenta Channel 26 July – British defeat Dutch (details)...
at South Mountain would allow him to reunite his army and forestall defeatindetail, Lee considered termination of the Maryland Campaign at nightfall....
Possibility for enemy to declare fight to the death Fear of repercussions Defeatindetail Kantai Kessen Swarming (military) Fabian strategy (antithesis) J. Nagl...
dictator of the Roman Republic given the task of defeating the great Carthaginian general Hannibal in southern Italy during the Second Punic War (218–201...
the Greeks the next morning, setting up a defeatindetail, as is reported in the accounts from that time. In any event, despite the Macedonians winning...
DefeatinDetail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912–1913, Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003, ISBN 0-275-97888-5, p. 348. Edward J. Erickson, Defeatin Detail:...
deal was made, and Sigismund's army surrendered, completing their defeatindetail.[citation needed] Sigismund would later state to the Hospitaller Master...
deception as a way for outnumbered forces to defeat larger adversaries. Examples of deception in warfare can be found in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the...
patrols, convoys and outposts. In this way they can hope to defeat their enemy indetail. Regular forces, in turn, may act in order to invite such attacks...
a tactical objective as part of an operation or a result in which the losses of the "defeated" outweigh those of the "victor" although the victorious force...
Epirus in European International Affairs, 1912–1923. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-6171-0. Erickson, Edward J. (2003). DefeatinDetail: The...
portions geographically, thus making each subject to isolation and defeatindetail. McClellan waited 18 hours before deciding to take advantage of this...
eastern outskirts and ended prospects for a quick defeat of France in the Western Front, resulting in the frustration of the German Schlieffen Plan and...
a portion to pursue the first army and repeat the operations (defeat indetail). This was designed to achieve the highest concentration of men into the...
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