Realizing the tactical advantage of the location, he chose the site for the construction of a fortress, which was called “ Aluh āmūt ” likely meaning “ Eagle ’ s Teaching ”.< sup >*</ sup > The origin of the word “ Alamut ” is obscure.

Vernichtungsgedanke, literally meaning " concept of annihilation " in German and generally taken to mean " the concept of fast annihilation of enemy forces " is a tactical doctrine dating back to Frederick the Great.

This pairing makes up the third such group, the " tactical " sefirot, meaning that their purpose is not inherent in themselves, but rather as a means for something else.

The classic interpretation of blitzkrieg is that of German tactical and operational methodology in the first half of the Second World War that was often hailed as a new method of warfare.

Key elements in the " blitzkrieg warfare " at the decisive Battle of Megiddo included concentration, surprise and speed ; success depending on attacking only in favourable terrain, where the terrain favoured the movement of large formations around the battlefield, and tactical improvements in the British artillery and infantry attack.

General Heinz Guderian, one of the creators of the combined-arms tactical doctrine commonly known as " blitzkrieg ", believed the best way to provide cover for the crossing would be a continuous stream of ground attack aircraft on French defenders.

The Imperium are directed more towards a blitzkrieg style of play, with units focused on supremacy in combat ahead of tactical flexibility.

Epaminondas wins the battle with a tactical innovation which involves striking the enemy first at their strongest, instead of their weakest, point, with such crushing force that the attack is irresistible.

The event involves a tactical component as competitors have discretion as to which flag they obtain.

Strategic and tactical planning involves anticipating opponents ' moves rather than just building a sequence of one's own moves.

Generally, this line is less tactical than many of the other Sicilian variations, and play involves much strategic manoeuvring on both sides.

Planning for combat involves organizing troops under commanders and issuing up to five tactical battle instructions ( such as magic spells to cast ) to the commanders, and simpler orders to troop squads.

Training involves a range of activities such as drill ( marching and related manoeuvres ), shooting, learning how to assemble and clean weapons, tactical planning and team work.

The player has to take care of his or her faction, which involves colonization, diplomacy, creation of buildings and units, supervising of mines, refineries, and stockpiled resources, building and commanding fleets in a tactical mode, conversion of systems to one's own side through various means, recruitment of characters, and dispatching characters or units to systems or fleets, and finally the assigning of missions to characters and special forces.

The main plan involves the preemptive use of tactical nuclear strikes ( mini-nukes ) on deep-ground rocket / bomb installations, computer viruses, and radar disruption technology.

Statman says that strategic asset allocation is movement along the efficient frontier, whereas tactical asset allocation involves movement of the efficient frontier.

In his MACV position, he advised on all matters pertaining to tactical air support and coordinated the Republic of Vietnam and United States air operations in the MACV area of responsibility.

But because of the peculiar nature of the military situation in Laos, the Soviet leader must be tempted to let things ride -- a course that would appear to cost him little on the spot, but would bog Washington in a tactical mess.

The vast array of sensors available to the military is used for whatever tactical means required.

Mechanical problems, poor mobility and piecemeal tactical deployment limited the military significance of the tank in World War I and the tank did not fulfil its promise of rendering trench warfare obsolete.

Aelian's military treatise in fifty-three chapters on the tactics of the Greeks, titled On tactical arrays of the Greeks (), is dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian, though this is probably a mistake for Trajan, and the date 106 has been assigned to it.

Solo military jet demos, also known as tactical demo, feature one aircraft, usually a strike fighter or an advanced trainer.

As a tactical weapon for military use, a significant problem with a biological warfare attack is that it would take days to be effective, and therefore might not immediately stop an opposing force.

The bombings of Guernica, Rotterdam and Warsaw were tactical missions in support of military operations and were not intended as strategic terror attacks.

The National Gendarmerie was responsible for defending rural areas and maintaining domestic order, thereby complementing the conventional tactical capabilities of the regional military commands.

Xiongnu, Tujue, Avars, Kipchaks, Mongols, Don Cossacks and the various Turkic peoples are also examples of the horse-mounted groups that managed to gain substantial successes in military conflicts with settled agrarian and urban societies, due to their strategic and tactical mobility.

Louis was a weak and ineffectual military leader with no skill for maintaining troop discipline or morale, or of making informed and logical tactical decisions.

This was a result of the tactical surprise at the outset of the campaign, the leadership vacuum within the Soviet military left by the Great Purge, and the general inferiority of Soviet designs at the time, such as the obsolescent I-15 biplane and the I-16.

Furthermore, United States government military strategists feared that Soviet use of the island would enable the Soviet Union to project tactical power over the entire Caribbean region.

Joint Interoperability of Tactical Command and Control Systems or JINTACCS is a United States military program for the development and maintenance of tactical information exchange configuration items ( CIs ) and operational procedures.

The chief of general staff is the tactical, operational and administrative head of the military.

The revolutionary autonomous movement of which he was a part made various tactical military pacts while fighting various forces of reaction and organizing the Free Territory of Ukraine, an anarchist society, committed to resisting state authority, whether capitalist or Bolshevik.

The bombings of Guernica, Rotterdam and Warsaw were considered tactical missions in support of military operations and were not intended as strategic terror attacks.

It has been suggested that the bombing of Guernica was carried out for military tactical reasons, in support of ground operations, but the town was not directly involved in any fighting at that point in time.

He served with his regiment in the Seven Years ' War, and the opportunity thus afforded him of studying the methods of Frederick the Great moulded his military character and formed his tactical ideas.

The training and simulation operations of the area offer tactical training and live-firing solutions for military and civil security use.

The Heckler & Koch Heckler & Koch MP5 | MP5 submachine gun is widely used by law enforcement tactical teams and military forces.

Tactical communications do not include communications provided to tactical forces by the Defense Communications System to non-tactical military commands, and to tactical forces by civil organizations.

While General George Washington's defeat on the battlefield may have cast early doubts on his abilities as a military tactician and leader, he did keep the Continental Army intact with an overnight tactical retreat, across the East River.

The Lockheed C-130 Hercules serves as the primary tactical transport for many military forces worldwide.

Ground, mechanised and tactical air forces were concentrated at this point of maximum effort whenever possible.

The principle of Schwerpunkt enabled the attacker to win numerical superiority at the point of the main effort, which in turn gave the attacker tactical and operational superiority even though the attacker may be numerically and strategically inferior along the entire front.

During the 1993 Waco Siege of the Branch Davidians, elements of the Alabama and Texas Army National Guard were called in to assist the ATF and the follow on effort by the FBI ; the National Guard's involvement was limited to several specific areas ; surveillance and reconnaissance, transport, maintenance and repairs, training and instruction, helicopters, unarmed tactical ground vehicles.

Under the strains and losses of the early campaigns of the Second Sino-Japanese War the Chinese decided in mid 1938 to standardize their Divisions as triangular divisions as part of their effort to simplify the command structure and placed them under Corps which became the basic tactical units.

Therefore, a large part of the computer Go development effort was during these times focused on ways of representing human-like expert knowledge and combining this with local search to answer questions of a tactical nature.

Greenpeace is using " open campaign " as part of its activism effort, with the willingness to be transparent down to the merest tactical details, although there may be some situations where some of these are hidden to provide some element of surprise.

The main U. S. contribution to the FANK effort came in the form of the bombers and tactical aircraft of the U. S. Air Force.

A strategic air force was that with a mission to attack an enemy's war effort beyond his front-line forces, predominantly production and supply facilities, whereas a tactical air force supported ground campaigns, usually with objectives selected through co-operation with the armies.

Wessel soon impressed Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Party's Gauleiter, and in January 1928, during a period when the Berlin city authorities had banned the SA in an effort to curb political street violence, Wessel was sent on a trip to Vienna, to study Nazi organisational and tactical methods.

Contrary to expectations, however, Kasparov's game produced a mixture of deep tactical and strategic ideas, and although Kasparov won, he admitted that he had never expended as much effort on any other game in his life.

Chickamauga was a great tactical victory for Bragg, but instead of pursuing and destroying the Union Army as it retreated, he laid siege to it in Chattanooga, concentrating his effort against the enemies inside his army instead of his enemies from the North.

Grimwood's original definition of his 1991 unified strategy stated that, " tactical ventilation is either the venting, or containment ( isolation ) actions by on-scene firefighters, used to take control from the outset of a fire's burning regime, in an effort to gain tactical advantage during interior structural firefighting operations.

Norris-Newman is deeply critical of Chelmsford, frequently points out his tactical errors, and makes no effort to conceal his contempt for the general.

statuses and to manage the tactical training progress, to build a background and knowledge base in order to make research on tactical aeroneutics, to make research to allow fighter elements of the Turkish Air Force Command to reach the military goals in the shortest time and with minimum resource and effort, to support the definition of operational requirements and supply and R & D activities, to allocate training environment in order to fulfill the requirements of the Turkish Air Force Command, to support the tests of existing / developed / future weapon / aircraft systems.

As the American effort in Southeast Asia increased, TAC permanently reassigned entire wings of aircraft from CONUS bases to PACAF and increased the number of rotated tactical fighter and recon squadrons on rotating Temporary Duty commitments to PACAF bases in Vietnam and Thailand, along with units to South Korea, Japan and the Philippines.

The Joint Tactical Radio System ( JTRS ) has evolved from a loosely associated group of radio replacement programs to an integrated effort to network multiple weapon system platforms and forward combat units where it matters most – at the last tactical mile.

In this variation, Black makes no immediate effort to regain the gambit pawn, preferring to concentrate on active piece play and tactical tricks.

German air superiority, tactical prowess, and the absence of Allied reinforcements doomed the Allied effort, however.

Tactical Air Control Parties struggled to direct the air effort, but found their powers of observation limited by rugged terrain, near horizons, and an ever shifting tactical situation.

Simultaneously, Waffen-SS forces struck from the west of Budapest in an effort to gain a tactical advantage.