Engagement (military)

In a battle refers to a military action, ie a military conflict is hostile troops on land, on water or in the air. Fighting or combat operations are usually performed in the course of operations.

Several temporally and spatially related battles that have a decisive influence on the course of an operation is called a battle. Fighting outside a planned operation are also called Skirmish (meetings ).

Expiration

Battles take place generally between two opposing forces parts. The one opponent that triggers the military clash by approach to the opponent or by the opening of hostilities, is typically the attacker, his approach is the attack or the offensive. The collision is expected opponent the defender, his approach is the defense or defensive. The attacking opponent holds at the time of the attack for more than his opponents, not only the relative combat power of the armed forces comes into play here, but also tactical, technical, intellectual or moral considerations may play a role.

To hold both opponents on the defensive, so it does not come to fight.

Objectives

Core of the battle management is the coordination of fire and movement of its own forces in order to achieve one's goal or enforce its own behalf against the enemy forces. As part of the battle of the combined arms various branches of work (usually the Army ) on the battlefield together, on the one hand to enforce their own information and fire superiority and mobility at the decisive point and on the other hand, reconnaissance, effects and possible movements of the enemy minimized.

Regulations

Actions and tasks in combat are the types of combat, especially combat operations and the general tasks in use. The doctrine of command and control is the tactic. When land forces below the company level, eg on Zugebene, one does not speak of battle, but it is out a fire fight. The moving element is the change from one position to another or obtaining a change of position within the position. Covering a change of position commands the leader of a sub-unit situationally independent in its sole discretion, obtaining a new position commands only the company commander or senior staff according to the course of action and his intention for the battle management.

In the army the general actions in combat service in the central regulation ( ZDv ) are regulated by 3/11 of all combat service troops. regulated.