Hit-and-run tactics

[1][2] Hit-and-run is a favored tactic where the enemy overmatches the attacking force and any sustained combat is to be avoided, such as guerrilla warfare, militant resistance movements, and terrorism.

[3] However, regular army forces often employ hit-and-run tactics in the short term, usually in preparation for a later full-scale engagement with the enemy when and where conditions are more favorable.

Examples of the latter include commando or other special forces attacks, reconnaissance-in-force, or sorties from a fortress, castle, or other strongpoint.

[6] The Turkish general Baibars also successfully used hit-and-run during the Battle of Ain Jalut,[7][8] the first defeat of the quickly expanding Mongol Empire.

[11] In the Turkish War of Independence, the Turks fought against the Greeks by hit-and-run tactics before a regular army was set up.

A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force military light truck armed with a heavy machine gun for anti-personnel harassment operations.
Jeb Stuart 's cavalry performed a series of raids around George McClellan 's army in the Seven Days Battles by using hit-and-run tactics.