Battleplan (2007)
Battleplan is a military television documentary series examing various military strategies used in modern warfare since World War I. It is shown on the Military Channel in the U.S. and UKTV History. Each episode looks at particular military strategy – or "battleplan" – through two well-known historical examples, gauging them against the ideal requirements necessary to successfully conduct that strategy. All the episodes use examples from modern warfare, dating from the First World War up to the recent Iraq War. Lloyd Clark and Bruce Gudmundsson analyze the information and talk about it on the show.
Battleplan: Season 1 - 18 Episode s
1x1 - Blitzkrieg
November 6, 2007
Examples used: Nazi Germany Blitzkrieg Campaign, Battle of France, World War II and 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iraq War
1x2 - Assault From the Air
November 6, 2007
Examples used: Battle of Crete, Operation Market Garden, World War II and Operation Junction City , Vietnam War
1x3 - Deception
November 6, 2007
Examples used: Battle of Normandy, D-Day, World War II and First Gulf War and 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iraq War
1x4 - Assault From the Sea
November 6, 2007
Examples used: Battle of Inchon, Korean War and Battle of Iwo Jima, Pacific War, World War II
1x5 - Counterstrike
November 6, 2007
Examples used: Yom Kippur War and Battle of Moscow, World War II
1x6 - Blockade
November 6, 2007
Examples used: Second Battle of the Atlantic, World War II and U.S. Submarine Campaign 1943–45, Pacific War
1x7 - Siege
November 6, 2007
Examples used: Siege of Leningrad, World War II and Battle of Dien Bien Phu, First Indochina War and Battle of Khe Sanh, Vietnam War
1x8 - Battlefleet Action
November 6, 2007
Examples used: Battle of Midway, Pacific War, World War II and Battle of Leyte Gulf, Pacific War, World War II
1x9 - Pre-Emptive Strike
November 6, 2007
Examples used: Six Day War and attack on Pearl Harbor, Pacific War, World War II
1x10 - Control of the Air
November 6, 2007
Examples used: Battle of Britain, World War II and First Gulf War
1x11 - Defensive Battle
November 6, 2007
Examples used: Hindenburg Line, Western Front, World War I and Battle of Kursk, World War II
1x12 - Guerrilla Warfare
November 6, 2007
Examples used: Mujahideen, Soviet war in Afghanistan and National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, a.k.a. Vietcong, Vietnam War
1x13 - Urban Warfare
November 6, 2007
Examples used: Tet Offensive, Vietnam War and Battle of Stalingrad,
1x14 - Breaking a Fortified Line
November 6, 2007
Examples used: Hindenburg Line, Western Front, World War I and Second Battle of El Alamein, World War II
1x15 - Raiding Operations
November 6, 2007
Examples used: Unternehmen Eiche, recapture of Benito Mussolini by Otto Skorzeny, World War II and Operation Ivory Coast, Son Tay, Vietnam War
1x16 - Strategic Bombing
November 6, 2007
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
1x17 - Flank Attack
November 6, 2007
Examples used: Battle of Normandy, World War II and First Gulf War
1x18 - Special Operations
November 6, 2007
Examples used: French Resistance, in the World War II and 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iraq War
Battleplan: 1 Season
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