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All Strategy and Doctrine

Named military theories and doctrines: the recognized ways of thinking about and conducting war, each carrying a core claim and an origin year. Belongs here: a named doctrine or strategic school (Blitzkrieg, Fabian Strategy). Does not belong here: a single weapon system a doctrine was built around, which is a weapon-system entity carrying a developed-by or associated-with edge, or a commander's personal biography, which is a commander entity.

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All Strategy and Doctrine

42 entries

Origin Era

Originator

Domain (Land, Sea, Air, Cyber)

Adopting Force

AirLand Battle

AirSea Battle

Auftragstaktik (Mission-Type Tactics)

Blitzkrieg

Combined Arms Warfare

Containment

Corps System

Counterinsurgency Doctrine

Deep Operation (Deep Battle)

Deterrence Theory

Double Envelopment (the Cannae Maneuver)

Double-Wall Siege (Circumvallation and Contravallation)

Encirclement and Denial of Water (Hattin)

Fabian Strategy

First Strike Doctrine

Fleet in Being

Flexible Response

Fourth-Generation Warfare

Frankish Heavy Cavalry Charge

Grand Battery (Massed Artillery Tactic)

Guerrilla Warfare

Infiltration Tactics (Stormtrooper Tactics)

Linear Tactics (Line Infantry Doctrine)

Macedonian Combined Arms Tactics

Maneuver Warfare

Massive Retaliation

Mongol Steppe Warfare

Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

Naval Blockade

Network-Centric Warfare

No First Use

People's War

Pincer Movement (General Envelopment Tactic)

Roman Legion Tactics (Manipular and Cohort System)

Saladin's Unification of Egypt and Syria

Sea Power Doctrine (Command of the Sea)

Second Strike Doctrine

Shock and Awe

Siege Warfare (Siegecraft)

Strategic Bombing Doctrine

Total War

Truman Doctrine

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