Category Archives: Chiến thuật

Operation Mincemeat was a 1943 British deception in which a corpse carrying forged papers misled Germany about the invasion of Sicily.

Blitzkrieg describes Germany’s fast combined-arms offensives of 1939–1941 — tanks, aircraft and radio working together to break through.

Dive bombing meant diving steeply at a target to drop bombs accurately. It shaped the Stuka, the Dauntless and Midway in 1942.

Guerrilla warfare is irregular war by small mobile groups: ambush, sabotage and retreat, from Spain in 1808 to Vietnam and beyond.

Total war mobilises a whole society — economy, population and industry — against the enemy. From Sherman to Hiroshima, how it works.

War of Attrition means wearing down the enemy instead of one decisive battle. Learn how it worked at Verdun, in Vietnam, and why it is so costly.

Wolfpack was the German U-boat group tactic of WWII. Learn how Rudeltaktik worked, its successes in the Atlantic, and why it failed in 1943.

Island hopping was the Allied strategy to reach Japan in WWII. Learn how bypassing strongholds, from Guadalcanal to Okinawa, shortened the Pacific War.

Schlieffen Plan was Germany’s 1905 plan to defeat France in six weeks. Learn how it worked, why Moltke changed it, and why it failed at the Marne.

Trench Warfare defined the Western Front in WWI. Learn how it worked, why it stalemated armies, and its cost at the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele.