Infiltration tactics
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In warfare, infiltration tactics involve small independent light infantry forces advancing into enemy rear areas, bypassing enemy frontline strongpoints, possibly isolating them for attack by follow-u
Deep Reconnaissance Platoon on exercise in 2003, Bravo Company, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, US 3rd Marine Division
German Stoßtruppen (stormtroopers) rising from trenches to attack, equipped with satchel-bags of grenades
General Oskar von Hutier, whose name is often associated with German infiltration tactics
Initial success of Operation Michael within the German spring offensive, 21 March – 5 April 1918
Trench warfare
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Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied lines largely comprising military trenches, in which combatants are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially shelte
Frontline trenches, 1916; British (upper) and German (lower)
German soldiers of the 11th Reserve Hussar Regiment fighting from a trench, on the Western Front, 1916
Plan of Ruapekapeka Pā 1846, an elaborate and heavily fortified Ngāpuhi innovation, which James Belich has argued laid the groundwork for or essentially invented modern trench warfare
Trenches at the Siege of Vicksburg 1863