Aggressors may use unarmed, untrained, or deliberately poorly equipped members of the colonized people (civilians or forcibly mobilized persons) for frontal assaults. This technique is used to directly and physically deplete the enemy's ammunition, reveal its concealed firing positions, and clear minefields with human bodies. Unlike the use of a "human shield" (T0111), where people serve as passive cover to protect the aggressor's troops, here the colonized population is actively used as free, single-use expendable material ("cannon fodder") to preserve the personnel reserve of the metropole's troops.
| ID | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| C0082 | "Scorched Earth" Tactics and Criminal Mobilization (1941–1945) |
Throwing thousands of untrained and unarmed Ukrainian peasants (the "chornosvytnyky," men in black homespun coats) into frontal attacks during the crossing of the Dnipro in order to exhaust the ammunition of the German troops[1]. |
| S0010 | Regular Army |
Throwing thousands of untrained and unarmed Ukrainian peasants (the "chornosvytnyky," men in black homespun coats) into frontal attacks during the crossing of the Dnipro in order to exhaust the ammunition of the German troops[1]. |
| G0010 | USSR |
Throwing thousands of untrained and unarmed Ukrainian peasants (the "chornosvytnyky," men in black homespun coats) into frontal attacks during the crossing of the Dnipro in order to exhaust the ammunition of the German troops[1]. |