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strategy of exhaustion
warfare
Also known as: two-pole strategy
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development of military strategy
- In strategy: Medieval strategy
…both types of strategy—overthrow and exhaustion. The Crusader states of the Middle East were gradually exhausted and overwhelmed by constant raiding warfare and the weight of numbers. On the other hand, one or two decisive battles, most notably the ruinous disaster at the Battle of Ḥaṭṭīn (1187), doomed the Crusader…
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