Attrition Warfare - History - Other Examples

Other Examples

• The "delaying" tactics of Quintus Fabius Maximus "Cunctator" against Hannibal Barca during the Second Punic War.
• Battle of Actium of 31 BC during the Roman civil wars
• The Hungarian resistance against the Mongols 1241–1242
• The Đại Việt Empire (now known as Vietnam), three repulsions of Kublai Khan (the grandson of Genghis Khan and the last Khan of the Mongol Empire) in 1258, 1285 and 1288
• The American strategy during the American Revolutionary War
• The French invasion of Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1812
• Trench warfare in the American Civil War, notably the Siege of Petersburg
• Trench warfare in World War I, including the Battle of the Somme (1916), the Battle of Verdun and many others
• Tonnage war in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II
• The Air battle for Great Britain in World War II after the bombing of London
• Static battles in World War II, including Soviet urban defense during the Battle of Stalingrad
• Battles of Rzhev (1942–1943)
• The final two years of the Korean War
• The Vietnam War (Body count)
• The "Long War" during the Provisional IRA's armed campaign against the British Army during the Troubles.
• The Israeli-Egyptian War of Attrition from 1967–1970.
• The Soviet war in Afghanistan
• The War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
• The 2011 Libyan civil war is arguably an example of attrition warfare.
• The Mexican Drug War, where the Mexican government seeks to fatally weaken the cartels.
• The Syrian Civil War