disturbance tactics; disruption tactics
Military or strategic term for tactics aimed at confusing, distracting, or disrupting the opponent's operations.
敵は撹乱戦術を用いて我々の通信を妨害した。
The enemy used disturbance tactics to disrupt our communications.
Standard kanji spelling using 撹 (common simplified form).
Variant spelling using 攪 (traditional form). Both are used, but 撹 is more common in modern Japanese.
Compound of 撹乱 (かくらん, 'disturbance, disruption') and 戦術 (せんじゅつ, 'tactics').