Military campaign

A coordinated series of military operations conducted to achieve strategic objectives within a war or other armed conflict.

Military strategy: The use of military force to achieve political objectives. A campaign translates strategic objectives into coordinated operations.
War: Organized armed conflict between political communities or within a political community. A campaign usually forms one strategic effort within a larger war.
Alexander the Great: Macedonian king who conquered the Persian Empire and campaigned across western and central Asia. His linked campaigns show how rapid movement and decisive engagements could serve conquest.
Attrition warfare: A strategy that seeks to exhaust an opponent by inflicting sustained losses in personnel and material. It describes a way of pursuing objectives, not a campaign's organizational scale.
Operational art: The planning and conduct of campaigns that connect tactical actions to strategic goals. It organizes operations across space and time to make campaign objectives attainable.
Battle: A major armed engagement between opposing forces, usually limited in time and place. A battle may be one episode within a campaign, but it is not the campaign itself.
Second Punic War: A war between Rome and Carthage from 218 to 201 BCE, marked by Hannibal's invasion of Italy. Its campaigns reveal how operations across multiple regions shaped a prolonged war.
Maneuver warfare: A military approach that seeks advantage by disrupting an opponent's cohesion and decision-making through movement. It is an approach campaigns may use, rather than a synonym for campaign.
Military operation: A coordinated military action designed to accomplish a defined task. Campaigns consist of linked operations with objectives that serve a larger purpose.
Military tactic: A method for employing forces in combat to achieve immediate objectives. Tactics govern combat actions that contribute to campaign operations.

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