Top 10 Greatest Battlefield Tactics of All Time

1Surprise Attack, Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, 9 AD

Surprise Attack, Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, 9 AD


2Envelopment, Battle of Stalingrad (Operation Uranus), 1942

Envelopment, Battle of Stalingrad (Operation Uranus), 1942


3Committing the Reserve, Battle of Austerlitz, 1805


4Shock Action, Battle of Arsuf, 1191


5Off-Balancing and Pinning, Battle of Trafalgar, 1805


6Deception, Sinking of the Lusitania, Atlantic Ocean, 1915


7Guerrilla Warfare, Franco-Prussian War, Prussia, 1870


8Intelligence, Battle of Cape Matapan, 1941


9Flooding the Land, Siege of Antwerp, The Netherlands, 1584


10Concentration, Jagdgeschwader Formation, World War I, 1917


11Blitzkrieg Tactic, Third Reich (Nazi Germany), 1939-1943


12Crescent Moon Encirclement, Battle of Cannae, Carthaginians, 216 BC


13Hammer and Anvil, Battle of Granicus, 334 BC


14Swiss Campaign of Suvorov, French Revolutionary Wars, 1799


15Island-Hopping, Pacific War, United States, 1942


16Double Envelopment, Battle of Cannae (Second Punic War), 216 BC

Double Envelopment, Battle of Cannae (Second Punic War), 216 BC