what's the differnce between a battle and a campaign?

Answer 1

A battle is a single fight.
A campaign is a series of steps undertaken to achieve a preset end. Sort of like...Operation Thunderbolt was the campaign, battle 251 was one of the fights during the campaign.

Answer 2

A camaign is comprised of a number--usually several--of battles to achieve a higher obfective than just winning the battle----such as gaining control of an area or driving the enemy from a country. An analogy would be battles are like paragrahs and the campaign is the story they are all a part of.

Answer 3

A battle is a single set of skirmishes and arms conflict in a given area in a certain amount of time with a list of objectives concerning a smaller area of land(ex. Take a town, hold a road, etc.) A campaign is a series of battles meant to accomplish a greater objective (ex. End the war)

Answer 4

A battle is a single fight, a campaign is to achieve a certain goal which you might fight many battles. And a war is made up of many campaigns.

So you can win the battle but lose the war.

Answer 5

A battle is 1 fight in a war. A campaign is i think the war itself like a capagn against the germans.

Answer 6

A campaign could consist of battles, large or small, or none at all. It achieves a strategic goal. Battles are actions where two or more armies meet in a physical struggle to vanquish each other.

Answer 7

Generally, a battle is an instance of combat in warfare between two or more parties wherein each group will seek to defeat the others. Battles are most often fought during wars or military campaigns and can usually be well defined in time, space and action. Wars and military campaigns are guided by strategy whereas battles are the stage on which tactics are employed. German strategist Carl von Clausewitz stated that "the employment of battles to gain the end of war" was the essence of strategy.


In the military sciences, a military campaign encompasses related military operations, usually conducted by a defense or fighting force, directed at gaining a particular desired state of affairs, usually within geographical and temporal limitations.
Military campaigns are usually a connected series of battles (or instances of combat in warfare between two or more parties wherein each group seeks to defeat the others) and the maneuvers that is conducted by a military force (regular or irregular) seeking victory in a war. Military campaigns are more often undertaken by permanent, professional force of soldiers or guerrillas—trained units as distinguished from the operation by militia or other temporary forces. A military campaign can be, more loosely though, any designated military operation in a geographical theater.

Military campaigns are guided by strategy, taking account of various actions undertaken in arctic warfare, ski warfare, desert warfare, jungle warfare, naval warfare, sub-aquatic warfare, mountain warfare, urban warfare, air warfare, and space warfare. As air power has become an increasingly powerful element of military campaigns, air superiority is increasingly focus on by military planners. The order of battle is a tool used by military planners to list and analyze enemy military units.

A military campaign, technically, is a series of related individual military operations. A military campaign here is used predominantly to refer to what one side does, and is useful for distinguishing between "the war" as a whole, and "the parties" to the war. The end of a military campaign predominantly results in one of the belligerent entities being successful in the struggle against an opponent entity (such as the removal of a regime, occupation of territory, and/or the end of hostilities). In a conventional war, the end of a military campaign sometimes lead to smaller armed conflicts (often called riots, rebellions, insurgencies, coups, etc.).

Answer 8

a battle is just one fight, the campaign usually takes several battles to be decided.