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Every War Tactic Explained in 8 Minutes

Video Overview & Insights

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

Interesting enough, from my experience some of these tactics can be seen to be used in the Roblox game "Centura"

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Hey, I was looking up tactics for chess and this came up in the mix. Well done. Thank you for this.

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amazing video, literally put my girlfriend to sleep. I loved the format these are awesome!

— @Pr0c0re69

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0:00 Sniper Trap

What happens when both groups happen to have the pincer movement in mind? 🌚

— @rasmakonnen3477

0:13 Salvo

0:36 Hull Down Position

💯💖

— @crystalserrant5915

1:07 Creeping Barrage

1:30 Blitzkrieg

Scorched earf

— @mr.skarkasm7755

1:55 Foxholes

2:19 Recon by Fire

This video reminds me in fact about one of the already outmoded communications tactics the French actually thought would work in WW2:

The French, (and, this'll infuriate anyone who likes common sense,) didn't use the available radio technology to relay information! So, what in the fk did the French do instead? Use bicycles to exchange messages. Damnit, radio technology already had existed for decades, "Nah, let's use: slow, occasionally unreliable and easily vulnerable bicyclists!" 🤦🏻‍♂️ I don't understand French history sometimes.

— @JoshGellisAnti-Woke

2:27 Single Envelopment

2:36 Pincer Movement

The least popular presidents would make a good video

— @jacobgreen9216

2:46 Oblique Order

2:58 Feigned Retreat

I love war crimes. All of them except for nukes. But I still like nukes :]

— @EliBell-g5x

3:10 Inverted Wedge

3:19 Crossing the T

We all are here for Bannerlord tactics aren’t we?

— @Mrwolfgd

3:30 Bounding Overwatch

3:49 Ambush

Starting off with an Israeli tactic

— @Shakya_Electrock

3:56 Skirmishing

4:09 Trench Raiding

Defeat-in-Detail?

Vive L'Empereur!!! (Reference to Napoleon Bonaparte.)

— @DawsonGonzaga-q5q

4:36 Swarming

4:53 Flying Wedge

Hey i want to buy the first game,should i wait or is it really far away?

— @theodorkrassovski2362

5:10 Defeat in Detail

5:28 Air Interdiction

Fun fact: The Feigned Retreat tactic was used in the battle of Kircholm by the Poles. They pretended to retreat and the Swedes did the same, but little did they know, that it was a trap. Because when they started retreating, the Winged Hussars emerged from the fog and defeated nearly 8000 Swedes.

— @HOMERGry12345

5:54 Siege

6:19 Mouseholing

You had to block out the picture of the swastika, but you can show the sickle and hammer!

— @nicodemus-dean7020

6:28 Air Assault

6:38 Tank Desant

7:46 Also used in Napoléon's Russian campaign(by the Russians)

— @History.VR-m5v

6:51 Shoot-and-Scoot

6:59 Marching Fire

no war please

— @3dgiftz

7:09 Center Peel

7:20 Defense in Depth

im cosplaying military general & antiseptic

— @dimitribrayyyyyyy

7:39 Scorched Earth

— FURTHER READING & LINKS —

Great video! The explanation of Crossing the T was spot on—it’s such a classic example of how positioning can completely negate an enemy's superior firepower.

— @AdmiralsDesk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Q8yPBcNCk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakfront

perfectoo

— @MazeEconomics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qol8-TRnqro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_tactics

good

— @nhannguyen1090

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_order

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTCLjxb70cc

i have a question tho, U cant shoot medics right?

— @enlistedclips123

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_T

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDUCx9cz_Ds

0:07 causing unneeeded suffering is a war crime, and killing medics is also a war crime. 2 war crimes first 15 seconds in.

— @mistysayan4821

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounding_overwatch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1gGsNj6s8U

0:04 it is a SEVERE war crime to shoot a medic

— @potatonumber1-x4r

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_slope_defence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skirmisher

why germany flag was blurred

— @rudrashivhare2701

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trench_raiding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarming_(military)

You forgot about “accuracy via volume”

— @kendalljames260

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_wedge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement

War is not the solution😢

— @QuietSilicon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defeat_in_detail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_interdiction

Blitzkrieg is a pincer trap mixed with intervened wedge

— @MrX-i7n

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment_(military)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege

Pretty sure I do all these in Fortnite

— @visualbinder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse-holing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_desant

7:48 no need to blur history is history.

— @ECS_5niperfriend

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_envelopment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot-and-scoot

You forgot the "strategic retreat" where you just describe losing as repositioning for future opportunities

— @alankotxino

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marching_fire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_peel

Sniper trap = IDF’s default war tactic

— @aasspp-u2z

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Defence_in_depth

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Scorched_earth

Orb walking: where you use a hotkey attack modifier to harrass your enemy laner without drawing creep aggro

Creep blocking: where you use your hitbox to slow down your own creeps from reaching the lane

Proxy farming: where you attack your opponents army behind their towers before it engages your army

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Blitzkrieg isn't an actual tactic and was as a word only used multiple decades later.
"Blitzkrieg" is pretty much a combination of multiple different tactics:
maneuver warfare + combined arms + envelopement/pincer movement + defeat in detail + much more depending on the details (e.g. air assault as part of encirclement -> Aussault on Belgian Forts in 1940).

— @willi_hd910

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Gonna use this in Helldivers 2.

@Fact-c67
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6:51 i definitely use this in sniper 1v1s or any sniper vs sniper situation in videogames

@entity5279
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What about sneaky golem in the pocket

@awesomepoper
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Scorched earth was used by Russia more against Napoleon than Germany 7:50

@Alibek11221
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Starting off with shooting medics... Great

@CHAOSINSURGENCY-q8b
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If you ever played the total war series I bet you figured out at least half of these on your own

@georgestandring5831
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I'm surprised at how many of these I've used in rts or co-op shooters.

@torgranael
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PINCER MOVEMENT ❌ Turan tactic

@SaaS-Tim
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Guerilla tactic ant here and I'm mad about it

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I use creeping barrage in helldivers in 2 different ways. I throw down my walking barrage strategem and chase it into their lines. And if I'm surrounded I drop it at my feet and weave through their forces with the barrage chasing me

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Blitzkrieg is literally just standard Prussian doctrine. The only difference is now Germans have tanks and methamphetamine

@LifesanL4976
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Anyone else remember specifically creeping barrage during history class during the WW1 unit

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Ok thanks

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