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Military tactics are the science and art of organizing a military force, and the techniques for combining and using weapons and military units to engage and defeat an enemy in battle. Changes in philosophy and technology have been reflected in changes to military tactics; in contemporary military science tactics are the lowest of three planning levels: (i) strategic, (ii) operational, and (iii) tactical. The highest level of planning is strategy, how force is translated into political objectives, by bridging the means and ends of war. The intermediate level, operational level, the conversion of strategy into tactics deals with formations of units. In the vernacular, tactical decisions are those made to achieve the greatest, immediate value, and strategic decisions are those made to achieve the greatest, overall value, irrespective of the immediate results of a tactical decision.
Military tactics answer the questions of how best to deploy and employ forces on a small scale. Some practices have not changed since the dawn of warfare: ambushes, seeking and turning flanks, maintaining reconnaissance, creating and using obstacles and defences, etc. Using ground to best advantage has not changed much either. Heights, rivers, swamps, passes, choke points, and natural cover, can all be used in multiple ways. Before the nineteenth century, many military tactics were confined to battlefield concerns: how to maneuver units during combat in open terrain. Nowadays, specialized tactics exist for many situations, for example for securing a room in a building.
Marines, also known as a marine corps and naval infantry, are an infantry force that specializes in the support of naval and army operations on land and at sea, as well as the execution of their own operations. In the majority of countries, the marine force is part of the navy, but it can also be under the army like the Troupes de marine (French Marines) and Givati Brigade (Israeli Marines), or form an independent armed service branch like the United States Marine Corps and Royal Marines.
Historically, tasks undertaken by marines have included providing protection from war while at sea, reflecting the pressed nature of the ships' company and the risk of mutiny. Other tasks would include boarding of vessels during combat or capture of prize ships and providing manpower for raiding ashore in support of the naval objectives.
With the industrialization of warfare in the 20th century the scale of landing operations increased; this brought with it an increased likelihood of opposition and a need for co-ordination of various military elements. Marine forces evolved to specialize in the skills and capabilities required for amphibious warfare.
U.S. Marines with the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force – Crisis Response – Africa Ground Combat Element conduct fire and movement training at range TC-11, Arta, Djibouti. AiirSource Military covers events and missions from the United States Armed Forces: Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard. Visit our channel for more military videos: http://www.youtube.com/AiirSource Like & share this video to show your support! Subscribe to stay updated: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AiirSource Credits: David Proffitt
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U.S. Marines warrant officers conduct a live-fire platoon field exercise during the Warrant Officer Basic Course (WOBC). This training event is focused on room clearing and urban tactics in a scenario that did not include any civilian non-combatants. Video by Warrant Officer Michael Kropiewnicki | MCB Quantico Combat Camera AiirSource covers military events and missions from the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard. Subscribe to AiirSource for daily updates: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AiirSource
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This video gives a brief overview on room breaching and clearing techniques based on the US Army Field Manual FM 3-06.11 from June 2011. Military History Visualized provides a series of short narrative and visual presentations like documentaries based on academic literature or sometimes primary sources. Videos are intended as introduction to military history, but also contain a lot of details for history buffs. Since the aim is to keep the episodes short and comprehensive some details are often cut. » HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT MILITARY HISTORY VISUALIZED « (A) You can support my channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mhv (B) You can also buy "Spoils of War" (merchandise) in the online shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/mhvis/shop (C) If you want to buy books that I use or recommend,...
Riot police in South Korea fend off rioters with ageless techniques. Nice formation.
Subscribe to Naked Science - http://goo.gl/wpc2Q1 Every other Wednesday we present a new video, so join us to see the truth laid bare... 2000 years ago the Roman army is the best equipped army in the world. While architects have mastered the art of manipulating stone and concrete, military engineers have fashioned metal and wood to create devastating weapons of war. The Roman foot soldiers main weapon is a fearsome sword called the Gladius, a double edged blade with a sharp point used for stabbing and thrusting, rather than slashing. When not fighting at close quarters, their spear, called a pilum, could kill from a distance with lethal accuracy. Protecting soldiers from injury is just as important as arming them for attack. Early Roman soldiers wear chainmail, but armourers come up...
U.S. Marines with the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force – Crisis Response – Africa Ground Combat Element conduct fire and movement training at range TC-11, Arta, Djibouti. AiirSource Military covers events and missions from the United States Armed Forces: Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard. Visit our channel for more military videos: http://www.youtube.com/AiirSource Like & share this video to show your support! Subscribe to stay updated: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AiirSource Credits: David Proffitt
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This video describes and provides employment recommendations for Squad Movement Formations & Squad Movement Techniques
U.S. Marines warrant officers conduct a live-fire platoon field exercise during the Warrant Officer Basic Course (WOBC). This training event is focused on room clearing and urban tactics in a scenario that did not include any civilian non-combatants. Video by Warrant Officer Michael Kropiewnicki | MCB Quantico Combat Camera AiirSource covers military events and missions from the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard. Subscribe to AiirSource for daily updates: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AiirSource
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This video gives a brief overview on room breaching and clearing techniques based on the US Army Field Manual FM 3-06.11 from June 2011. Military History Visualized provides a series of short narrative and visual presentations like documentaries based on academic literature or sometimes primary sources. Videos are intended as introduction to military history, but also contain a lot of details for history buffs. Since the aim is to keep the episodes short and comprehensive some details are often cut. » HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT MILITARY HISTORY VISUALIZED « (A) You can support my channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mhv (B) You can also buy "Spoils of War" (merchandise) in the online shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/mhvis/shop (C) If you want to buy books that I use or recommend,...
Riot police in South Korea fend off rioters with ageless techniques. Nice formation.
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Urban warfare is combat conducted in urban areas such as towns and cities. Urban combat is very different from combat in the open at both the operational and tactical level. Complicating factors in urban warfare include the presence of civilians and the complexity of the urban terrain. Urban combat operations may be conducted in order to capitalize on the strategic or tactical advantages which possession or control of a particular urban area gives or to deny these advantages to the enemy.
Camouflage: A Great Military Tactic - History Documentary Films Ship camouflage was periodically utilized in ancient times. Philostratus (c. 172-- 250 AD) composed in his Imagines that Mediterranean pirate ships might be repainted blue-gray for concealment. Vegetius (c. 360-- 400 AD) says that "Venetian blue" (sea green) was utilized in the Gallic Wars, when Julius Caesar sent his speculatoria navigia (reconnaissance watercrafts) to gather intelligence along the coast of Britain. The ships were painted entirely in bluish-green wax, with sails, ropes and staff the very same colour. There is little evidence of armed forces usage of camouflage on land before 1800, but 2 unusual ceramics reveal guys in Peru's Mochica society from before 500 AD, searching birds with blowpipes which are suited ...
War In The Ancient World Documentary - Ancient Warfare And Tactics - Military Documentary Channel Ancient warfare is war as carried out initially of documented history to the end of the ancient duration. In Europe and also the Near East, completion of antiquity is usually related with the Fall of Rome in 476, the wars of the Eastern Roman Realm on its Southwestern Oriental as well as North African borders, and the starts of the Muslim conquests in the 7th century. In China, it can additionally be viewed as ending with the expanding function of mounted soldiers had to counter the ever-growing hazard from the north in the 5th century as well as the start of the Tang Dynasty in 618. In India, the ancient period ends with the decrease of the Gupta Realm (Sixth century) and also the start of t...
We take the opportunity to discuss some of the effective military tactics used by the Swedish army during the Great Northern War
Napoleon Bonaparte | A Great General The Strategist | Military Napoléon Bonaparte (/nəˈpoʊliən, -ˈpoʊljən/;[2] French: [napɔleɔ̃ bɔnapaʁt], born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814, and again in 1815. Napoleon dominated European affairs for over a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars. He won most of these wars and the vast majority of his battles, rapidly gaining control of continental Europe before his ultimate defeat in 1815. One of the greatest commanders in history, his campaigns are studied at mili...
Dr. John A. Nagl lectures at the 31st Annual Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Lecture Series. Dr. Nagl served as an Armor Officer in the US Army for 20 years and is one of the most influential US military officers of his generation. He was heavily involved in the adoption of a counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan in the mid-2000s. He also appeared on The Daily Show. Dr. Nagl graduated with distinction from West Point with the class of 1988 and received his masters degree from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He served as a tank platoon commander during the First Gulf War. Recognizing the changing nature of warfare, he returned to Oxford to pursue a PhD. His dissertation, entitled Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam, became one of ...
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World War 2 U.S. Army Rifle Squad Combat Tactics talk hosted by Jon Stevens World War 2 Historical Re-enactment Society President 9th Infantry Division 60th Regiment - Go Devils http://www.9thidgodevils.org/ Video By Heinz Thiel World War 2 HRS Press Corps http://www.worldwartwohrs.org/