offensive
military operation that seeks through an aggressive projection of armed forces to occupy territory, gain an objective or achieve some larger strategic, operational, or tactical goal
Aragon Offensive
1938 military offensive
Lower Silesian Offensive
1945 military offensive
Confederate Heartland Offensive
1862 military campaign during the American Civil War
first strike
pre-emptive surprise attack employing overwhelming force
Meuse-Argonne Offensive
1918 military campaign by the Allies during World War I
Minsk Offensive
1944 battle on the Eastern Front of World War II
Operation Green Hunt
Indian anti-Naxalite campaign since 2009
Oil Crescent Offensive
2016 military offensive
Marlin Luanda missile strike
missile strike
Hundred Days Offensive
1918 military campaign during World War I
Meridian Expedition
1864 military campaign
Zaragoza Offensive
battle during Spanish Civil war
Mud March
1863 offensive of the American Civil War
Balaguer Offensive
1938 offensive carried out by the Spanish Republican Army around Balaguer during the Spanish Civil War
Great Offensive
the largest and final military operation of the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1922)
Radar lock-on
feature of a type of military offensive
UN offensive into North Korea
1950 military campaign during the Korean War
Crimea attacks
armed conflict in the Crimean Peninsula during the Russian invasion of Ukraine since 2022
Case Blue
German summer offensive of 1942 in southern Russia
reconnaissance in force
warfare tactic used in which military forces may fire on likely enemy positions to provoke a reaction, which confirms the presence and the position of enemy forces
invasion
military offensive in which large numbers of combatants of one geopolitical entity enter territory owned by another such entity
Iraq War
2003–2011 war after an American-led invasion
Hundred Regiments Offensive
1940 military offensive
Seven Enemy Offensives
Periodization of the World War II in Yugoslavia.
Operation Flash
1995 brief Croatian Army offensive during the Croatian War of Independence
Asturias Offensive
1937 military offensive
UN Offensive Campaign
1950 United Nations military campaign
air offensive
military operation conducted by aviation forces to attack enemies
Narva Offensive
March 1944 battle in Estonia during WW II
naval offensive
offensive occuring via water
Roth and Spoof Expedition
1808 military offensive
Tal Afar offensive
2017 offensive by Iraq against ISIL
Korean invasion of Manchuria
1900s attack in Asia
Budapest Offensive
Soviet military offensive 1944–1945
friendly fire
attack on friendly forces misidentified as hostile ones
Camden Expedition
1864 military campaign during the American Civil War
Attack on Sydney Harbour
1942 World War II attack by Japan
Riga Offensive
1944 Soviet offensive against Nazi Germany during World War II
Camp Grant massacre
American massacre of Native Americans in 1871
Segovia Offensive
1937 military offensive
Third attack on Anzac Cove
battle in 1915 during the First World War
Mosul offensive
2015 battle between Iraqi Kurdistan and IS
military charge
military attack
torpedo attack
naval tactic in which a ship or submarine is attacked with torpedoes
Kairouan Offensive
741 military offensive