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Pluto TV
Network: Yesterday
Episode Runtime: 42 min.
Season Runtime: 756 min.
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

Season 1 (Nov. 6, 2007, midnight)

Battleplan is a military television documentary series examing various military strategies used in modern warfare since World War I. It is shown on the Military Channel in the U.S. and UKTV History. Each episode looks at particular military strategy – or "battleplan" – through two well-known historical examples, gauging them against the ideal requirements necessary to successfully conduct that strategy. All the episodes use examples from modern warfare, dating from the First World War up to the recent Iraq War. Lloyd Clark and Bruce Gudmundsson analyze the information and talk about it on the show.

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Season 1 (Nov. 6, 2007, midnight)

Battleplan is a military television documentary series examing various military strategies used in modern warfare since World War I. It is shown on the Military Channel in the U.S. and UKTV History. Each episode looks at particular military strategy – or "battleplan" – through two well-known historical examples, gauging them against the ideal requirements necessary to successfully conduct that strategy. All the episodes use examples from modern warfare, dating from the First World War up to the recent Iraq War. Lloyd Clark and Bruce Gudmundsson analyze the information and talk about it on the show.

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S1E1 - Blitzkrieg

Examples used: Nazi Germany Blitzkrieg Campaign, Battle of France, World War II and 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iraq War
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S1E2 - Assault From the Air

Examples used: Battle of Crete, Operation Market Garden, World War II and Operation Junction City , Vietnam War
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S1E3 - Deception

Examples used: Battle of Normandy, D-Day, World War II and First Gulf War and 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iraq War
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S1E4 - Assault From the Sea

Examples used: Battle of Inchon, Korean War and Battle of Iwo Jima, Pacific War, World War II
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S1E5 - Counterstrike

Examples used: Yom Kippur War and Battle of Moscow, World War II
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S1E6 - Blockade

Examples used: Second Battle of the Atlantic, World War II and U.S. Submarine Campaign 1943–45, Pacific War
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S1E7 - Siege

Examples used: Siege of Leningrad, World War II and Battle of Dien Bien Phu, First Indochina War and Battle of Khe Sanh, Vietnam War
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S1E8 - Battlefleet Action

Examples used: Battle of Midway, Pacific War, World War II and Battle of Leyte Gulf, Pacific War, World War II
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S1E9 - Pre-Emptive Strike

Examples used: Six Day War and attack on Pearl Harbor, Pacific War, World War II
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S1E10 - Control of the Air

Examples used: Battle of Britain, World War II and First Gulf War
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S1E11 - Defensive Battle

Examples used: Hindenburg Line, Western Front, World War I and Battle of Kursk, World War II
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S1E12 - Guerrilla Warfare

Examples used: Mujahideen, Soviet war in Afghanistan and National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, a.k.a. Vietcong, Vietnam War
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S1E13 - Urban Warfare

Examples used: Tet Offensive, Vietnam War and Battle of Stalingrad,
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S1E14 - Breaking a Fortified Line

Examples used: Hindenburg Line, Western Front, World War I and Second Battle of El Alamein, World War II
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S1E15 - Raiding Operations

Examples used: Unternehmen Eiche, recapture of Benito Mussolini by Otto Skorzeny, World War II and Operation Ivory Coast, Son Tay, Vietnam War
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S1E16 - Strategic Bombing

Examples used: the RAF/USAAF campaign against Nazi Germany from 1941–45, bombing of Dresden and the USAAF assault on Japan in 1944–45, Bombing of Tokyo in World War II
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S1E17 - Flank Attack

Examples used: Battle of Normandy, World War II and First Gulf War
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S1E18 - Special Operations

Examples used: French Resistance, in the World War II and 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iraq War
Pluto TV
Network: Yesterday
Episode Runtime: 42 min.
Season Runtime: 756 min.
Released: Nov. 7, 2007
Last Air Date: Nov. 6, 2007, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR / 14+

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