The bombing Attack of Belgrade was preceded Process_start by the commencement of the ground invasion a few hours earlier , and coincided with air attacks Attack on VVKJ airfields and other strategic targets across Yugoslavia .

The action had strategic consequences : the Republican faction in Genoa was strong and they successfully barred Austrian reinforcements from sailing Self_motion to join Becoming_a_member the Allied garrison at the developing Siege of Toulon .

The United States offensive , under the overall command Control of Chester Nimitz , followed the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign and was intended to neutralize Control Japanese bases in the central Pacific , support Supporting the Allied drive to retake the Philippines , and provide Supply bases for a strategic bombing Attack campaign against Japan .

The U.S. then constructed airfields on Saipan and Tinian where B-29s were based to conduct strategic bombing missions against the Japanese mainland until the end of World War II , including the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki .

Israel suspects Tehran is pursuing Aiming the goal of forming Coming_to_be a continuous land transport Sending route from Iran via Iraq and Syria to Lebanon , and if Tehran succeeds `` it would be a strategic game-changer . ''

tara o'toole and thomas inglesby of the johns hopkins center for civilian biodefense strategies ( unk ) / center for strategic and international studies ( csis ) , and randy larsen and mark unk of analytic services were the principal designers , authors , and controllers of the dark winter project .

Rossbach is considered one of Frederick 's greatest strategic masterpieces Achieve .

Others place Placing a much greater emphasis on the impact Influence of the September 11 attacks Attack , on the role this played Competition in changing Change U.S. strategic calculations , and the rise Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale of the freedom agenda .

On 4 March 1987 , Reagan made Creating a further nationally televised address , taking full responsibility for the affair and stating that `` what began Process_start as a strategic opening to Iran deteriorated Change , in its implementation , into trading arms for hostages '' .

The failure of this offensive exhausted Expend_resource Germany 's strategic reserve , leaving it ill-prepared to resist the final Allied campaigns in Europe .

although the battle Military_operation was tactically inconclusive , the confederate troops had withdrawn Escaping first from the battlefield , and abandoned GiveUp their invasion Military_operation , making it Causation a union strategic victory Earnings_and_losses .

In the two years leading up to the invasion , Germany and the Soviet Union signed Sign_agreement political and economic pacts for strategic purposes .

although a tactical victory for the japanese in terms of ships sunk , the battle Hostile_encounter would prove Convincing to be a strategic victory for the allies for several reasons Protest .

Two months later , the Allies took advantage of Japan 's resulting strategic vulnerability in the South Pacific and launched Military_operation the Guadalcanal Campaign ; this , along with the New Guinea Campaign , eventually broke Destroying Japanese defenses Defending in the South Pacific and was a significant contributing Causation factor to Japan 's ultimate surrender Surrendering in World War II .

On 27 February , masked Wearing Russian troops without insignia took over Conquering the Supreme Council ( parliament ) of Crimea , and captured Conquering strategic sites across Crimea , which led to Causation the installation Change_of_leadership of the pro-Russian Aksyonov government in Crimea , the conducting Action of the Crimean status referendum and the declaration Expressing_publicly of Crimea 's independence Change_of_leadership on 16 March 2014 .

Combat Skyspot 's command Control guidance of B-52s and tactical fighters and bombers— '' chiefly flown by F-100 's '' —at night and poor weather was used Using for aerial bombing Attack of strategic , close Openness air Expressing_publicly support Supporting , interdiction , and other targets .

On 25 May , 2,500 Việt Minh troops overwhelmed Destroying the French fortress at Dong Khé , which lay Placing at the strategic center of RC4 , thus cutting Change the supply Supply line between the French positions at Cao Bằng and Lạng Sơn .

The metropolitan operation Military_operation would be led Conquering by Col. Antoine Argoud , with French paratroopers descending on Arriving strategic airfields .

Political reforms followed the rebellions as Canada was of vital strategic interest to the British Empire .

The main strategic consequence of the engagement was the disclosure Reveal_secret of the cruisers ' positions Employment to the British Admiralty , which led to Causation the Battle Hostile_encounter of Coronel where the entire German East Asia Squadron defeated Conquering a Royal Navy squadron .

While the German army recuperated Cure from the losses Earnings_and_losses of 1916 , protected Defending by the Hindenburg Line and similar defensive positions Placing on the rest of the Western Front , a return to unrestricted submarine warfare Hostile_encounter and a strategic bombing Attack offensive against Britain was planned Arranging .

By the beginning Process_start of 1917 , the strategic outlook for the Germans made Manufacturing a retirement inevitable .

However , the war Military_operation became Becoming a strategic draw Process_end when peace was later negotiated Communication by Augustus .

When Bosnia and Herzegovina declared Expressing_publicly independence from Yugoslavia after the 1992 Bosnian independence referendum , the Bosnian Serbs—whose strategic goal was to create Creating a new Bosnian Serb state of Republika Srpska ( RS ) that would include Cause_to_be_included Bosniak-majority areas—encircled Sarajevo with a siege force of 13,000 stationed in the surrounding hills .

As a result of this strategic offensive Attack , Wehrmacht 's Army Group South was split Destroying into two parts- north and south of the Carpathian Mountains .

The Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive Attack , also known Know in Soviet historical sources as the liberation Hostile_encounter of right-bank Ukraine , was a strategic offensive Attack executed by the Soviet 1st , 2nd , 3rd , and 4th Ukrainian Fronts , along with the 2nd Belorussian Front , against the German Army Group South , and fought Hostile_encounter from 24 December 1943 – 17 April 1944 .

Following the attack Attack on Buôn Ma Thuôt , the South Vietnamese realized Coming_to_believe they were no longer able to defend Defending the entire country and ordered Arranging a strategic withdrawal Escaping from the Central Highlands .

The demands Request were more to politically secure Preventing_or_letting MacArthur 's command Control than for any strategic need .

From the Polish point of view , while the German defeat constituted a Polish tactical victory , the ensuing destruction of the Polish units by the Soviets resulted in Causation a strategic defeat , especially considering the goals of Operation Tempest .

Salé was an important strategic and commercial centre , and also the gateway to Azghar , the region of northern Morocco .

On February 9 1986 , Iran launched Motion Operation Dawn 8 , a sophisticated and carefully planned amphibious assault Attack across the Shatt al-Arab ( Arvand Rud ) river against the Iraqi troops defending Defending the strategic al-Faw Peninsula , which connects Connect Iraq to the Persian Gulf .

The First Battle of al-Faw was a major success for Iran who now held Hold an important strategic position , but worried other states in the region , primarily in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia , who increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale their support Supporting for Iraq .

Ostend was attacked Attack in conjunction with the neighbouring harbour of Zeebrugge on 23 April in order to block Hiding_objects the vital strategic port of Bruges , situated inland and ideally sited to conduct Action raiding Attack operations on the British coastline and shipping Self_motion lanes .

Recent studies Research have focused on the underlying economic , legal and strategic drivers for Iceland and the United Kingdom , as well as the domestic and international factors that contributed Causation to the escalation of the dispute Quarreling .

The Third Indochina War was a series of interconnected armed conflicts Hostile_encounter , mainly among the various communist factions over strategic influence in Indochina after peace between the United States and North Vietnam had been concluded in January 1973 .

Ever more diverging Chinese and Soviet strategic and political doctrines had increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the Sino-Soviet split of the mid-1950s .

Despite losing Earnings_and_losses seven of his ships of the line , Villaret had bought Commerce_buy enough time for the French grain convoy to reach Arriving safety unimpeded by Howe 's fleet , securing a strategic success .

The [ First ] Battle Hostile_encounter of Stockach occurred Coming_to_be on 25 March 1799 , when French and Austrian armies fought Hostile_encounter for control Control of the geographically strategic Hegau region in present-day Baden-Württemberg .

It was considered a strategic success .

Various units engaged Forming_relationships in fiercely fought actions during the operation , usually supported by a mixture of artillery , air and helicopter gunship support , sometimes including B52 strategic bombers .

Post-war writing by senior German officers like Hermann von Kuhl , Gerhard Tappen , Wilhelm Groener and the historians led by the former ( Lieutenant-Colonel ) Wolfgang Förster , managed Preventing_or_letting to establish a commonly accepted narrative that it was the failure to follow the blueprint by Moltke the Younger , rather than German strategic miscalculation , that condemned Judgment_communication the belligerents to four years of attrition warfare instead of the quick , decisive conflict it `` should '' have been .

It also demonstrated Protest that the effective suppression of student activism and the de-politicisation of the universities ranked high among the strategic goals of the new government .

As the battle Hostile_encounter progressed Cause_to_make_progress , the Luftwaffe also targeted Aiming factories involved Cause_to_be_included in aircraft production Manufacturing and strategic infrastructure .

Severe criticism Judgment_communication of General Sir Douglas Haig and General Henry Rawlinson during and since the war Military_operation for persisting with attacks Attack on October , was challenged in 2009 by William Philpott , who put Placing the British share of the battle into the context of strategic subordination to French wishes , the concept of a general Allied offensive Attack established Creating by Joffre and the continuation of French attacks Attack south of Le Transloy , which had to be supported Supporting by British operations .

Shah Abbas desired to capture Conquering the strategic fortress on Kandahar since he had lost it Earnings_and_losses in 1595 .

It was a decisive victory Getting for the Croatian Army ( HV ) , which attacked Attack across a front against the Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) , and a strategic victory for the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( ARBiH ) .

operation storm Damaging was a strategic victory in the bosnian war , effectively ending the siege of UNK and placing the hv , croatian defence council ( hvo ) and the arbih in a position to change Change the military balance of power in bosnia and herzegovina through the subsequent operation mistral 2 .

The operation built Building on HV and HVO advances made Causation during Operation Summer '95 , when strategic positions allowing the rapid capture of the RSK capital Knin were gained Getting , and on the continued arming and training of the HV since the beginning of the Croatian War of Independence , when the RSK was created Creating during the Serb Log revolution and Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA ) intervention .

The HV 's and ARBiH 's strategic success was a result of a series of improvements to the armies themselves , and crucial breakthroughs made in the ARSK positions that were subsequently exploited by the HV and the ARBiH .

The RSK relied Supply on the Republika Srpska and Yugoslav militaries as its strategic reserve , but they did not intervene Hindering in the battle .