Human wave

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Wave of French infantry in World War I

A human wave or infantry wave is a tactic in infantry in which an attacker with many soldiers tries to carry out an attack. Your own soldiers are neither protected nor covered. However, it is accepted that many of their own soldiers are killed. The tactic is mainly used when the level of training of your own forces is low and as a commander you have a relatively simple and effective tactic at hand.

In order to repel human waves, anti-personnel mines have been developed that only work in one direction. So are Claymore -Minen as T48 and T48E1 the US military and the Phoenix Mine in Canada were developed for this purpose.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edward C. O'Dowd: Chinese Military Strategy in the Third Indochina War: The Last Maoist War . Routledge, 2007, ISBN 978-1-134-12268-4 , pp. 144 ff .
  2. ↑ B. Karin: A COMPARISON OF PHOENIX, CLAYMORE AND IMPROVED CLAYMORE ANTI-PERSONNEL EFFECTIVENESS. (pdf) 1957, accessed April 23, 2018 (English).