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  • Thumbnail for Formation (association football)
    switch formations between or during games for tactical reasons. Teams may also use different formations for attacking and defending phases of play in...
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    Modern team formations normally include one to three forwards. For example, the common 4–2–3–1 includes one forward. Less conventional formations may include...
    60 KB (6,680 words) - 15:30, 16 July 2024
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    of tactical formation (named after the Herringbone pattern). When in a Herringbone formation, the person at the front of the squad faces forward, while...
    901 bytes (96 words) - 04:23, 24 May 2023
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    Flying wedge (redirect from Wedge formation)
    called flying V or wedge formation, or simply wedge) is a configuration created from a body moving forward in a triangular formation. This V-shaped arrangement...
    19 KB (2,379 words) - 05:59, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Multiservice tactical brevity code
    briefed/available. Box Groups/contacts/formations in a square or offset square. FM 101-5-1 MCRP 5-2A BRAA Tactical control format providing target bearing...
    38 KB (5,336 words) - 04:05, 21 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Close order formation
    A close order formation is a military tactical formation in which soldiers are close together and regularly arranged for the tactical concentration of...
    11 KB (1,488 words) - 13:19, 8 April 2024
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    of the tactical air strikes. By the cessation of hostilities, airborne forward air controllers alone were credited with flying 40,354 forward air control...
    32 KB (4,062 words) - 01:50, 27 May 2024
  • intentions. Some of the different categories of military reserves are: tactical reserve, operational reserve, and strategic reserve. A military reserve...
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    essentially a sweeper, creating a 1–3–3–3 formation; he occasionally also used a defender in the centre-forward role, and wearing the number nine shirt...
    41 KB (4,410 words) - 18:53, 23 July 2024
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    typically make up the in-between units to the defensive units and forward units of a formation. Managers frequently assign one or more midfielders to disrupt...
    68 KB (6,576 words) - 04:15, 5 August 2024
  • Different formations were assumed according to different tactical situations. Repellere equites ("repel horsemen/knights") was the formation used to resist...
    139 KB (20,342 words) - 06:58, 10 May 2024
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    significantly in the First and Second World Wars. In the 21st century, Joint Tactical Fire Support observers emerged usually using sophisticated communications...
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    Enfilade and defilade (category Tactical formations of the Napoleonic Wars)
    concepts in military tactics used to describe a military formation's exposure to enemy fire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapon fire can be...
    9 KB (1,004 words) - 07:25, 2 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Fourth Allied Tactical Air Force
    Fourth Allied Tactical Air Force (4 ATAF) was a NATO military formation under Allied Air Forces Central Europe tasked with providing air support to NATO's...
    18 KB (1,831 words) - 16:17, 30 January 2024
  • Second Allied Tactical Air Force (2 ATAF) was a NATO military formation under Allied Air Forces Central Europe tasked with providing air support to NATO's...
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    Combat box (category Tactical formations)
    The combat box was a tactical formation used by heavy (strategic) bombers of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. The combat box was also referred...
    19 KB (2,667 words) - 16:41, 5 June 2024
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    USAF units and aircraft of the Korean War (category United States Air Force units and formations in the Korean War)
    6147th Tactical Control Group Temporary unit composed of: 942nd Forward Air Control Squadron 6148th Tactical Control Squadron 6149th Tactical Control...
    61 KB (3,310 words) - 13:32, 25 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Association football positions
    referred to as wingers. As the game has developed further, some tactical formations (for example, 4–3–3) have used central midfielders deployed in a...
    48 KB (5,484 words) - 18:57, 18 June 2024
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    Pike and shot was a historical infantry tactical formation that first appeared during the late 15th and early 16th centuries, and was used until the development...
    39 KB (5,913 words) - 07:33, 17 June 2024
  • operations. Deep battle envisaged the breaking of the enemy's forward defenses, or tactical zones, through combined arms assaults, which would be followed...
    66 KB (9,412 words) - 06:05, 26 July 2024
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