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.
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Season 1
2007
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01. Blitzkrieg
2007-11-06
Examples used: Nazi Germany Blitzkrieg Campaign, Battle of France, World War II and 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iraq War
02. Assault From the Air
2007-11-06
Examples used: Battle of Crete, Operation Market Garden, World War II and Operation Junction City , Vietnam War
03. Deception
2007-11-06
Examples used: Battle of Normandy, D-Day, World War II and First Gulf War and 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iraq War
04. Assault From the Sea
2007-11-06
Examples used: Battle of Inchon, Korean War and Battle of Iwo Jima, Pacific War, World War II
05. Counterstrike
2007-11-06
Examples used: Yom Kippur War and Battle of Moscow, World War II
06. Blockade
2007-11-06
Examples used: Second Battle of the Atlantic, World War II and U.S. Submarine Campaign 1943–45, Pacific War
07. Siege
2007-11-06
Examples used: Siege of Leningrad, World War II and Battle of Dien Bien Phu, First Indochina War and Battle of Khe Sanh, Vietnam War
08. Battlefleet Action
2007-11-06
Examples used: Battle of Midway, Pacific War, World War II and Battle of Leyte Gulf, Pacific War, World War II
09. Pre-Emptive Strike
2007-11-06
Examples used: Six Day War and attack on Pearl Harbor, Pacific War, World War II
10. Control of the Air
2007-11-06
Examples used: Battle of Britain, World War II and First Gulf War
11. Defensive Battle
2007-11-06
Examples used: Hindenburg Line, Western Front, World War I and Battle of Kursk, World War II
12. Guerrilla Warfare
2007-11-06
Examples used: Mujahideen, Soviet war in Afghanistan and National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, a.k.a. Vietcong, Vietnam War
13. Urban Warfare
2007-11-06
Examples used: Tet Offensive, Vietnam War and Battle of Stalingrad,
14. Breaking a Fortified Line
2007-11-06
Examples used: Hindenburg Line, Western Front, World War I and Second Battle of El Alamein, World War II
15. Raiding Operations
2007-11-06
Examples used: Unternehmen Eiche, recapture of Benito Mussolini by Otto Skorzeny, World War II and Operation Ivory Coast, Son Tay, Vietnam War
16. Strategic Bombing
2007-11-06
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
17. Flank Attack
2007-11-06
Examples used: Battle of Normandy, World War II and First Gulf War
18. Special Operations
2007-11-06
Examples used: French Resistance, in the World War II and 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iraq War