Military strategy Facts for Kids

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A military strategy is a set of ideas or policy used by armed forces to get the results they want.^[1] Strategy is used to win combat, battles and wars. It involves planning, logistics (the movement and use of forces and equipment), and the deception of the enemy.

Carl von Clausewitz is considered the creator of modern military strategy.

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Military stratagem in the Maneuver against the Romans by Cimbri and Teutons circa 100 B.C.
Mongol Empire in 1227 at Genghis Khan's death
Napoleon in Berlin (Meynier). After defeating Prussian forces at Jena, the French Army entered Berlin on 27 October 1806.
Map of the Waterloo campaign
19th century musketeers from Wellington at Waterloo by Robert Alexander Hillingford, 18 June 1815