Battleplan
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Battleplan is a military-based television documentary series examing the various military strategies used in modern warfare, since World War I. It is shown on the Military Channel and UK History.
[edit] Overview
Each episode looks at a particular military strategy (or "battleplan") used in warfare, through two well-known historical examples and compares them both with the military requirements needed in order to conduct that "Battleplan". All the episodes use examples from modern warfare, dating from the First World War (1914-18) up to the recent Iraq War (2003).
[edit] Episodes
1. Control of The Air - examples used - Battle of Britain, Second World War and First Gulf War
2. Assault From The Air - Battle of Crete, Unternehmen Merkur, Second World War and Operation Junction City , Vietnam War
3. Deception- examples used - Battle of Normandy, D-Day, Second World War and First Gulf War and 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iraq War
4. Assault From The Sea - examples used- Battle of Inchon, Korean War and Battle of Iwo Jima, Pacific War, Second World War
5. Counterstrike- examples used- Yom Kippur War and Battle of Moscow, Second World War
6. Blockade- examples used- Second Battle of the Atlantic, Second World War and US Submarine Campaign 1943-45, Pacific War, Second World War
7. Siege- examples used- Siege of Leningrad, Second World War and Battle of Dien Bien Phu, First Indochina War and Battle of Khe Sanh, Vietnam War
8. Blitzkrieg - examples used - Nazi Germany Blitzkrieg Campaign, Battle of France, Second World War and 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iraq War
9. Pre-Emptive Strike - examples used- Six Day War and attack on Pearl Harbor, Pacific War, Second World War
10. Special Operations- examples used- French Resistance, in the Second World War and 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iraq War
11. Defensive Battle- examples used- Hindenburg Line,Western Front, First World War and Battle of Kursk, Second World War
12. Guerilla Warfare - examples used - Mujahideen,Soviet war in Afghanistan and National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, a.k.a. Vietcong, Vietnam War
13. Urban Warfare - examples used - Tet Offensive, Vietnam War and Battle of Stalingrad,
14. Breaking a Fortified Line- examples used- Hindenburg Line,Western Front, First World War and Second Battle of El Alamein, Second World War
15. Raiding Operations- examples used- Unternehmen Eiche, recapture of Mussolini by Otto Skorzeny, Second World War and Operation Ivory Coast, Son Tay, Vietnam War
16. Strategic Bombing- examples used- the RAF/USAAF campaign against Nazi Germany from 1941-45, bombing of Dresden and the USAAF assault on Japan in 1944-45, Bombing of Tokyo in World War II
17. Flank Attack- examples used- Battle of Normandy, D-Day, Second World War and First Gulf War
18. Battlefleet - examples used - Battle of Midway, Pacific War, Second World War and Battle of Leyte Gulf, Pacific War, Second World War
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