Battleplan


Battleplan is a 2006 military television documentary series examining various military strategies used in modern warfare since World War I. It is shown on the Military Channel in the U.S. and Yesterday. 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 Iraq War. Lloyd Clark and Bruce Gudmundsson analyze the information and talk about it on the show.

Episodes

  1. "Blitzkrieg" – examples used: Battle of France ' and 2003 invasion of Iraq '
  2. "Assault from the Air" – examples used: Battle of Crete, Operation Market Garden ' and Operation Junction City '
  3. "Deception" – examples used: Battle of Normandy ', Gulf War and 2003 invasion of Iraq '
  4. "Assault from the Sea" – examples used: Battle of Inchon ' and Battle of Iwo Jima '
  5. "Counterstrike" – examples used: Yom Kippur War and Battle of Moscow '
  6. "Blockade" – examples used: Battle of the Atlantic and U.S. Submarine Campaign 1943–45 '
  7. "Siege" – examples used: Battle of Dien Bien Phu ' and Battle of Khe Sanh '
  8. "Battlefleet" – examples used: Battle of Midway and Battle of Leyte Gulf '
  9. "Pre-Emptive Strike" – examples used: Six-Day War and Attack on Pearl Harbor '
  10. "Control of the Air" – examples used: Battle of Britain ' and Gulf War
  11. "Defensive Battle" – examples used: Hindenburg Line ' and Battle of Kursk '
  12. "Guerrilla Warfare" – examples used: Mujahideen ' and Vietcong '
  13. "Urban Warfare" – examples used: Tet Offensive ' and Battle of Stalingrad '
  14. "Breaking a Fortified Line" – examples used: Hindenburg Line ' and Second Battle of El Alamein '
  15. "Raiding Operations" – examples used: Rescue of Benito Mussolini ' and Operation Ivory Coast '
  16. "Strategic Bombing" – examples used: Campaign against Nazi Germany, 1941–45, Bombing of Dresden and Bombing of Japan, 1944–45 '
  17. "Flank Attack" – examples used: Battle of Normandy ' and Gulf War
  18. "Special Operations" – examples used: French Resistance ' and 2003 invasion of Iraq

    DVD release

The Region 1 DVD collection of five discs was released November 6, 2007. It has a listed running time of 1080 min.