Editing List of military tactics (section)

===Defensive===
[[File:WWI-French-trench-Hirtzbach-Woods-16-June-1917.jpg|thumb|175px|Defensive [[trenches]] were used commonly during [[World War I]]]]
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* Basic principles
** Mutual support (e.g., by [[crossfire]])
** [[Echelon formation]]
** [[All round defence]]
** [[Force dispersal]]
* Fighting withdrawal
** [[Booby trap]]s
* [[Counter attack]]
** [[Counter battery fire]]
** [[Rapid reaction force]]
* Delaying defence
** Break contact
* [[Hedgehog defence]]
** military bottleneck
* [[Pakfront]]
* [[Fortification]]
** Field works ([[Trench warfare|entrenchments]])
*** Over head protection
*** [[Revetting]]
*** [[Shell scrape]]s
*** [[Defensive fighting position]]
* Use and improvement of terrain
**Use of the [[ High ground]]
** Protection
** Natural barriers – e.g., rivers
** [[Reverse slope defence]]
** Obstacles and barriers – man made
*** [[Barbed wire]]
*** Anti-vehicle [[ditch (fortification)|ditches]]
*** Anti-vehicle [[berm]]s (knife edges)
* Multiple axis of movement
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