Every War Tactic Explained in 8 Minutes

Every famous war and military tactic gets explained in 8 minutes!

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— TIMESTAMPS —
0:00 Sniper Trap
0:13 Salvo
0:36 Hull Down Position
1:07 Creeping Barrage
1:30 Blitzkrieg
1:55 Foxholes
2:19 Recon by Fire
2:27 Single Envelopment
2:36 Pincer Movement
2:46 Oblique Order
2:58 Feigned Retreat
3:10 Inverted Wedge
3:19 Crossing the T
3:30 Bounding Overwatch
3:49 Ambush
3:56 Skirmishing
4:09 Trench Raiding
4:36 Swarming
4:53 Flying Wedge
5:10 Defeat in Detail
5:28 Air Interdiction
5:54 Siege
6:19 Mouseholing
6:28 Air Assault
6:38 Tank Desant
6:51 Shoot-and-Scoot
6:59 Marching Fire
7:09 Center Peel
7:20 Defense in Depth
7:39 Scorched Earth

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— DISCLAIMER —
Do not use this video as your only source of information. This video is for entertainment/edutainment purposes, and some information could be too oversimplified or incorrect. This channel's goal is to spark your curiosity and let you do your own research on these topics.

[Kaiess_YT]

No intro, short video, simple explanation, no shouting, simple graphics, educational and not boring. Can’t complain one bit

[Voasky]

Now this will make the paintball game interesting

[HeroOfTheDay]

It's funny that a lot of these tactics are things I picked up from playing real time strategy games as a kid.

[siberianunion]

"To confuse your enemy, you have to confuse yourself first"
-Sun, Tzu The Art of War

[MinutesExplainer]

So refreshing to see a video without a pointless intro..

[Tomyironmane]

A creeping barrage: the French determined that the best way to use them required that your soldiers actually be eating friendly fire the whole time. The manuals of the time pretty much said "If you're doing it properly, 10% of your forces in the assault will be casualty due to artillery fire."

[randomthoughtinstantiator]

You forgot “kiting, ” where you orbit around the mythical beast while attacking at range, causing the AI to never get close enough to trigger counterattacks.

[BM-_KATYUSHA]

Thanks, this is the only tutorial that really worked!

My neighbour stood no chance!

[YourAveragePersonOnTheStreets]

Finally, I now understand the HOI4 doctrines

[someguy]

Very few of these are strategies. Most of the events described would be regarded as being at the tactical end of military planning. Strategy is a general plan designed around overall ends and how to achieve them. For instance skirmish raids, foxholes and trench warfare generally fall at the tactical and operational levels yet strategically they would comprise attritional warfare to the end of outlasting an enemy. Similarly blitzkrieg would comprise of an annihlatory strategy intended to cause massive damage without many friendly casualties. In essence making the war quick and decide to impose surrender terms

[gallbladder]

so many clones have popped up but this channel consistently outdoes them all

[XalasiaBall]

0:08 This shows the sniper committing a war crime, as he is shooting unarmed enemy medics.
*edit, before you guys keep commenting that “wars always have war crimes” I get it, I was just pointing out a small detail, these stick men are fighting a fictional war

[jackson]

I love how the first example shows a war crime (Intentionally firing at medics)

[Car_.]

Blitzkrieg

" an ad of foodpanda immediately jumps on my screen "

[Some_dude]

2:19 I actually use this in large scale shooter games, didn't realise it was a tactic that was used in actual warfare

[GarrettBShaw]

Can we all take a moment to appreciate the left visual for salvo. Just look at the water depression from the pressure wave of all of those main guns firing. It's absolutely wild to see how much the water around the ship is depressed from the pressure wave.

[reimuhakurei]

I love this im gonna use these war strategy tactics in video games now

[scorpx]

Ways to win a war: 30
Ways to reach world peace: apparently 0

[Moggus]

Thanks for the tutorial! I'll use this when I fail art school.

[simplypaint]

Who needs stretched amount of details when you can watch something like this, simple yet understandable, no useless intros, no redundant info, no annoying sound effects, etc