Questions tagged [strategy]
Questions related to the history of the practice of the formulation of a plan of actions designed to produce a desired outcome, often with regards to political or military goals, or with regards to sports or gaming activities.
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Which sort of troops were Axis casualties at the end of North African campaign?
End of North African front:
The chronology of events says that the defeated Axis army retreated in Libya and then Tunisia while French North Africa was invaded when Axis forces landed there from ...
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Are there any examples of the Douhet model actually working?
In 1921, Italian military theorist Giulio Douhet published his doctrine of strategic bombing. He argued that directly targeting civilian populations and infrastructure would break the enemy’s morale ...
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What is the name, or historical illustration, for the military strategy of biding time?
What would be a historical term, or a historical episode, to
illustrate the following war strategy? The scenario is that while
side X is attacking, side Y is adopting the strategy of biding its
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Why did USA agree that early in 1941 about the Germany First strategic plan (if so)?
I have read a surprising information on some websites that apparently are truthsworthy enough:
One unknown site
During the first three weeks of January 1941 the planners of the Joint Board completed ...
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Strategy and organization during the civil rights movement [closed]
After watching the movies Selma and Rustin, I couldn't help but appreciate the strategic thinking and organizing that happened during the civil rights movement. What are some of the books that talk ...
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If WW2 trench warfare really was a poor use of outdated tactics then what what would have been more appropriate tactics to employ? [closed]
I'm no historian, but I've heard many times claims that WW2 trench warfare lead to mass death with no real progress because commanders were trying to keep using WW1 tactics despite WW2 technology (...
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How well were early WW2 naval tactics and strategy accounting for the importance of aircraft carriers? [closed]
I'm not an expert in WW2, but I've heard some conflicting claims about aircraft carriers and how they changed the nature of naval warfare. I know carriers entered wide use in WW2, but not how their ...
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Is there a source for this anecdote about Chandragupta Maurya, battle strategies and hot rice? [closed]
An anecdote (1) about Chandragupta Maurya indicates he learnt that attacking margins is a better battle strategy than attacking the center, and that this insight came from a hot dish (possibly hot ...
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Did soldiers ever use wooden pillows to hear attacks?
I remember reading somewhere that since sound travels way faster through the ground as compared to air, soldiers back in the day used wooden pillows that were hard. So if the enemy started marching in ...
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Why did Allied Command maintain passive, especially Indian units in Middle East during the years 1942 and 1943?
I have found, going through stack exchange questions, a pair of links that speak about the presence.
Those links are: Statistics on the number of divisions during WWII and the deployment of a (mostly ...
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How important was the Suez Canal to the Allies during WWII?
The Suez Canal allows one to travel from the Mediterranean or North Atlantic to the Indian Ocean without having to circumvent the continent of Africa. A ship traveling from the UK to India could ...
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How was the Karwendel railway important to Germany's plans for WW1?
While reading Max Hastings' book "Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes To War", I was surprised by the following paragraph (emphasis added):
In 1912-13 Germany had declined to support a tough Austrian line ...
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How did Red Army achieve to manipulate German Army in 1942 and 1943?
I had read during past days some books and internet texts about the East front campaign, during WW2. I took some information out of that, and it is very surprising to me.
First, I read that Russian ...
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What are tanks for? [closed]
I asked myself the simple question: "what is the purpose of tanks?", and I came up short.
It is said that a common misconception of tanks is that they are designed to destroy other tanks. That is ...
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Where and when has Thucydides been studied?
Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian war between Sparta and Athens, of which he was a contemporary and participating general, is studied still today in war academies and by political scientists ...
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