Battleplan

"Battleplan" is a military-based television documentary series examing the various military strategies used in modern warfare, since World War I. It is shown on the Military Channel and UKTV History.

Overview

Each episode looks at a particular military strategy (or "battleplan") used in warfare, through two well-known historical examples and compares them both with the military requirements needed in order to conduct that "Battleplan". All the episodes use examples from modern warfare, dating from the First World War (1914–18) up to the recent Iraq War (2003).

Episodes

1. Control of the Air; examples used: Battle of Britain, "World War II" and First Gulf War

2. Assault From the Air; examples used: Battle of Crete, Unternehmen Merkur, "World War II" and Operation Junction City , "Vietnam War"

3. Deception; examples used: Battle of Normandy, "D-Day", "World War II" and First Gulf War and 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iraq War

4. Assault From the Sea; examples used: Battle of Inchon, "Korean War" and Battle of Iwo Jima, "Pacific War", "World War II"

5. Counterstrike; examples used: Yom Kippur War and Battle of Moscow, "World War II"

6. Blockade; examples used: Second Battle of the Atlantic, "World War II" and U.S. Submarine Campaign 1943–45, "Pacific War"

7. Siege; examples used: Siege of Leningrad, "World War II" and Battle of Dien Bien Phu, "First Indochina War" and Battle of Khe Sanh, "Vietnam War"

8. Blitzkrieg; examples used: Nazi Germany Blitzkrieg Campaign, Battle of France, "World War II" and 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iraq War

9. Pre-Emptive Strike; examples used: Six Day War and attack on Pearl Harbor, "Pacific War", "World War II"

10. Special Operations; examples used: French Resistance, in the "World War II" and 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iraq War

11. Defensive Battle; examples used: Hindenburg Line, Western Front, World War I and Battle of Kursk, "World War II"

12. Guerrilla Warfare; 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; examples used: Tet Offensive, "Vietnam War" and Battle of Stalingrad,

14. Breaking a Fortified Line; examples used: Hindenburg Line, Western Front, World War I and Second Battle of El Alamein, "World War II"

15. Raiding Operations; 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; 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; examples used: Battle of Normandy, "World War II" and First Gulf War

18. Battlefleet Action; examples used: Battle of Midway, "Pacific War", "World War II" and Battle of Leyte Gulf, "Pacific War", "World War II"

Source [http://library.digiguide.com/lib/episodes/520015]

DVD Release

The Region 1 DVD collection of five discs was released November 6, 2007. It has a listed running time of 1080 minutes. The Amazon Standard Identification Number is B000WC38N2.