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mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Mechanized warfare | These ideas culminated in the "PU-36" or the 1936 Field Service Regulations.
Wartime: At the start of the Second World War much of the Red Army, including its armoured forces, was in transition and recovering from the 1937 repression of the officer corps. The Red Army ignored the lessons from Nomonhan, which had been ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Mechanized warfare | It was decided therefore to slow the production of the U.S. heavy tank designs such as the M26 Pershing and concentrate resources on mass-producing the M4 Sherman and tank destroyers such as the M18 Hellcat.
To be able get into position to counter-attack, the tank destroyers had to be fast. To achieve the desired mobil... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Mechanized warfare | In the early 1960s this led to a number of important developments in the armoured forces and their supporting Arms. One important development was the transition of the Second World War use of Cavalry-Mechanised Group (CMG) into the Cold War Operational Manoeuvre Group (OMG) that was designed to exploit breakthroughs to... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Mechanized warfare | Airborne threats: Tanks and other armoured vehicles are vulnerable to attack from the air for several reasons. One is that they are easily detectable—the metal they are made of shows up well on radar, and is especially obvious if they are moving in formation. A moving tank also produces a lot of heat, noise and dust. T... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Medical corps | List of medical corps: The following organizations are examples of medical corps:
In the British Armed Forces and Commonwealth of Nations:
Royal Army Medical Corps, a specialist corps of the Army Medical Services that provides medical care to British Army personnel
Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, the branch of th... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Medieval fortification | Fortification types:
Archer towers: Towers of medieval castles were usually made of stone, wood or a combination of both (with a stone base supporting a wooden loft). Often toward the later part of the era they included battlements and arrow loops. Arrow loops were vertical slits in the wall through which archers ins... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Medieval fortification | Some castles featured additional inner walls, as additional fortifications from which to mount a defense if outer walls were breached.
Gates: Any entrance through a wall, being an opening, forms an obvious weak point. To be practical, the entryway would have to accommodate supplies being brought through, yet difficult... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Medieval warfare | Organization: The medieval knight was usually a mounted and armoured soldier, often connected with nobility or royalty, although (especially in north-eastern Europe) knights could also come from the lower classes, and could even be enslaved persons. The cost of their armour, horses, and weapons was great; this, among o... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Medieval warfare | The carro della guerra of Milan was described in detail in 1288 by Bonvesin de la Riva in his book on the "Marvels of Milan". Wrapped in scarlet cloth and drawn by three yoke of oxen that were caparisoned in white with the red cross of Saint Ambrose, the city's patron, it carried a crucifix so massive it took four men ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Medieval warfare | Strategy and tactics: Medieval campaigns were planned with strategy in mind, such as maintaining unity in morale, planning troop movements, and mount offensives with numerical advantages. Medieval armies used strategic deception, such as misleading troop movements, to take opposing armies by surprise. They would also s... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Medieval warfare | Viking longships were swift and easily manoeuvered; they could navigate deep seas or shallow rivers, and could carry warriors that could be rapidly deployed directly onto land due to the longships being able to land directly. The longship was the enabler of the Viking style of warfare that was fast and mobile, relying ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Medieval warfare | Cambridge University Press, London. 1974.
Hattendorf, John B. & Unger, Richard W. (editors), War at Sea in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Woodbridge, Suffolk. 2003. ISBN 0-85115-903-6 [1]
Liddiard, Robert (2005), Castles in Context: Power, Symbolism and Landscape, 1066 to 1500, Macclesfield: Windgather Press Ltd,... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Mercenary | International and national laws of war: Protocol Additional GC 1977 (APGC77) is a 1977 amendment protocol to the Geneva Conventions. Article 47 of the protocol provides the most widely accepted international definition of a mercenary, though it is not endorsed by some countries, including the United States. The Protoco... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Mercenary | French Foreign Legionnaires serve in the French Foreign Legion, which deploys and fights as an organized unit of the French Army. This means that as members of the armed forces of Britain, India, and France these soldiers are not classed as mercenary soldiers per APGC77 Art 47.e and 47.f. Volunteers for the Ukraine For... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Mercenary | The barbarians were Romanized and surviving veterans were established in areas requiring population. The Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Empire is the best known formation made up of barbarian mercenaries (see next section).
Other: Members of independent Thracian tribes such as the Bessi and Dii often joined the rank... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Mercenary | Among their leaders there were also members of some old Byzantine Greek noble families such as the Palaiologoi and Comneni. The stratioti were pioneers of light cavalry tactics during this era. In the early 16th century heavy cavalry in the European armies was principally remodeled after Albanian stradioti of the Venet... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Mercenary | 15th to 18th centuries: The Saika mercenary group of the Kii Province, Japan, played a significant role during the Siege of Ishiyama Hongan-ji that took place between August 1570 to August 1580. The Saikashuu were famed for the support of Ikkō Buddhist sect movements and greatly impeded the advance of Oda Nobunaga's fo... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Mercenary | The word "bunt" itself translates to warrior or mercenary, this community later elevated itself as the rulers of the land, several powerful dynasties emerged from this community. The most notable dynasty being the Alupas of Dakshina Kannada, which reigned for 1,300 years. This community still survives and has adopted t... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Mercenary | The vast majority of the men who trained in these camps were white men who saw para-military training as a "reverse the previous twenty years of American history and take back all the symbolic territory that has been lost" as the possibility of becoming mercenaries gave them "the fantastic possibility of escaping their... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Mercenary | During the crisis, mercenaries were employed by various factions, and also at times helped the United Nations and other peace keepers.
In 1960 and 1961, Mike Hoare worked as a mercenary commanding an English-speaking unit called "4 Commando" supporting a faction in Katanga, a province trying to break away from the newl... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Mercenary | The Comoros coup: A major aim of French foreign policy was and still is to maintain the French sphere of influence in what is called Françafrique. In 1975, Ali Soilih took power in the Comoros via a coup, and proved unwilling to accept the French viewpoint that his nation was part of Françafrique. Unhappy with Soilih, ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Mercenary | The BBC reported on 10 September 2004 that in Zimbabwe:
[Simon Mann], the British leader of a group of 67 alleged mercenaries accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea has been sentenced to seven years in jail... The other passengers got 12 months in jail for breaking immigration laws while the two pilots got 16... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Mercenary | ISBN 1855327635
Goldsworthy, Adrian (2006). The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265–146 BC. London: Phoenix. ISBN 978-0-304-36642-2.
Milliard, Todd S.; Overcoming post-colonial myopia: A call to recognize and regulate private military companies Archived 1 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine(PDF), in Military Law Revi... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military | Etymology and definitions: The first recorded use of the word "military" in English, spelled militarie, was in 1582. It comes from the Latin militaris (from Latin miles 'soldier') through French, but is of uncertain etymology, one suggestion being derived from *mil-it- – going in a body or mass.
As a noun phrase, "the ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military | They also use these terms to conceal from the MI their true capabilities, and to impress potential ideological recruits.
Having military intelligence representatives participate in the execution of the national defence policy is important, because it becomes the first respondent and commentator on the policy expected s... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military | Hence, Clausewitz placed political aims above military goals, ensuring civilian control of the military. Military strategy was one of a triumvirate of 'arts' or 'sciences' that governed the conduct of warfare, the others being: military tactics, the execution of plans and manoeuvring of forces in battle, and maintenanc... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military | His theme was echoed by Gustavus Adolphus.
Ethics of warfare have developed since 1945, to create constraints on the military treatment of prisoners and civilians, primarily by the Geneva Conventions; but rarely apply to use of the military forces as internal security troops during times of political conflict that resu... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military administration | Citations and notes:
References: Weber, Jeffrey A., Eliasson, Johan, Handbook of Military Administration, CRC Press, 2007 |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military awards and decorations | History: Decorations have been known since ancient times. The Egyptian Old Kingdom had the Order of the Golden Collar while the New Kingdom awarded the Order of the Golden Fly. Celts and Romans wore a torc or received other military decorations such as the hasta pura, a spear without a tip. Dayaks wore and still wear t... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military base | Jurisdictional definition: Military bases within the United States are considered federal property and are subject to federal law. Civilians (such as family members of military officers) living on military bases are generally subject to the civil and criminal laws of the states where the bases are located. Military bas... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military branch | Types of branches:
Unified armed forces: The Canadian Armed Forces is the unified armed forces of Canada. While it has three environmental commands - namely the Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Navy, and Royal Canadian Air Force - it remains a single military service.
NATO definition: Branch of service (also branch of ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military camouflage | Principles: Military camouflage is part of the art of military deception. The main objective of military camouflage is to deceive the enemy as to the presence, position and intentions of military formations. Camouflage techniques include concealment, disguise, and dummies, applied to troops, vehicles, and positions.
Vi... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military camouflage | The emphasis on hand-to-hand combat, and the short range of weapons such as the musket, meant that recognition and cohesion were more important than camouflage in combat clothing well into the baroque period. The introduction of infantry weapons with longer range, especially the Baker rifle, opened up new roles which n... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military camouflage | Hugh Cott's 1940 book Adaptive Coloration in Animals systematically covered the different forms of camouflage and mimicry by which animals protect themselves, and explicitly drew comparisons throughout with military camouflage:
The principle is one with many applications to modern warfare. In the Great War it was util... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military camouflage | Further advances in aircraft camouflage are being investigated in the field of active camouflage.
In fashion and art:
Fashion and the "Dazzle Ball": The transfer of camouflage patterns from battle to exclusively civilian uses is not recent. Dazzle camouflage inspired a trend of dazzlesque patterns used on clothing i... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military campaign | Definition: 1. A military campaign denotes the time during which a given military force conducts combat operations in a given area (often referred to as AO, area of operation). A military campaign may be executed by either a single Armed Service, or as a combined services campaign conducted by land, naval, air, cyber, ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military deception | Definition: Many standard military activities can be considered deceptive, but not deception. For example, a unit may move into an assembly area to complete organizing and rehearsing prior to a mission. It is a standard deceptive tactic to camouflage the vehicles, equipment and personnel in the assembly area with the i... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military deception | Belgian authorities discounted this true information as false because of the ease with which they obtained it.
Multiple Forms of Surprise: Friendly events about which an adversary can be deceived are described in the mnemonic SALUTE-IS, which stands for Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment, Intent, and Styl... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military deception | Seeing the Gauls appear to retreat, the Romans would advance into the bowl shape or sack created by the bending of Hannibal's line. Once inside the sack, the African infantry positioned on the left and right would wheel inwards and attack the Roman flanks. In combination with the Carthaginian cavalry, the infantry on t... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military deception | To conceal the lack of gunpowder from the British, Washington's quartermaster soldiers filled gunpowder casks with sand and shipped them from Providence, Rhode Island to the Continental Army's depots. The deception fooled British spies, and British commanders decided not to risk an attack during the siege.
Battle of L... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military deception | Hull decided to move the British to Fort Malden, further away from Detroit, so that he could seize the defenses in Windsor. To implement his plan, Hull resorted to deception, which began when his troops collected all the boats and canoes they could find. On 11 July 1812, Hull sent some boats down the river to Springwel... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military deception | The British were surprised by the ambush and retreated in confusion, leaving seventeen dead on the field. Forsyth was the only American casualty. Even though Forsyth was killed, his feigned retreat and ambush succeeded at inflicting heavy casualties on the British force.
Battle of Lundy's Lane: In the July 1814 Battle... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military deception | Western front: In March 1917, leaders of the German Army on the Western Front decided to withdraw from their positions in France to the Hindenburg Line, a 90-mile long defensive position that ran from Arras to Laffaux. With Germany unable to conduct an offensive because of personnel losses earlier in the war, commander... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military deception | To gain and maintain the element of surprise for Bagration, the Soviets executed a successful deception effort. The overall intent was to make German commanders believe the Soviets would only defend in the center of the front (Belorussia), while launching a major offensive to the south in Ukraine and Crimea and a feint... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military deception | This plan, codenamed Operation Downfall, had several components, including the Operation Olympic invasion of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu. The deception created to enable Olympic to succeed, Operation Pastel, would have included false attacks against Japanese held-ports in China, as well as Japanese positions... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military deception | The destruction of half their MiGs and uncertainty about whether future flights observed on radar and electronic sensors were unescorted F-105s or F-4s pretending to be F-105s caused North Vietnam to ground its MiGs. The MiGs failed in their mission of preventing U.S. Operation Rolling Thunder bombing runs over North V... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military deception | Prior to the start of the Coalition offensive in February 1991, its ground forces successfully moved multiple divisions west to the largely undefended border between Saudi Arabia and Iraq. When the attack commenced, the Coalition conducted a feint directly into Kuwait while the main effort—the "Left Hook" enabled by co... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military doctrine | Defining doctrine: NATO's definition of doctrine, used unaltered by many member nations, is:
Fundamental principles by which the military forces guide their actions in support of objectives. It is authoritative but requires judgement in application.
In 1998 the Canadian Army stated:
Military doctrine is a formal expr... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military doctrine | Auftragstaktik encourages commanders to exhibit initiative, flexibility and improvisation while in command.
India: The current combat doctrine of the Indian Army is based on the effective combined utilization of holding formations and strike formations. In the case of an attack, the holding formations would contain th... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military doctrine | JDP 5-00([2] Archived 2011-04-14 at the Wayback Machine) JDP 3-40([3] Archived 2011-05-16 at the Wayback Machine)
Army Field Manual (two volumes) – provides practices
Land component handbooks and special to arm publications – provide procedures
The Army Field Manual comprises Volumes 1 (Combined Arms Operations) in 12 ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military doctrine | According to it, any citizen who resists an aggressor is a member of the armed forces, thus the whole population could be turned into a monolithic resistance army.
Starting from the elementary school education, over high schools, universities, organizations and companies, the authorities prepared the entire population ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military education and training | Recruit training: The primary and initial form of military training, recruit training, makes use of various conditioning techniques to resocialize trainees into a military system, to ensure that they will obey all orders without hesitation, and to teach basic military skills.
Resocialization as a sociological concept i... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military engineering | Etymology: The word engineer was initially used in the context of warfare, dating back to 1325 when engine’er (literally, one who operates an engine) referred to "a constructor of military engines". In this context, "engine" referred to a military machine, i. e., a mechanical contraption used in war (for example, a cat... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military engineering | These and other dedicated assault vehicles were organised into the specialised 79th Armoured Division and deployed during Operation Overlord – 'D-Day'.
Other significant military engineering projects of World War II include Mulberry harbour and Operation Pluto.
Modern military engineering still retains the Roman role o... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military exercise | Types:
Command post: A Command Post Exercise (CPX) typically focuses on the battle readiness of staffs such as a particular Unified Combatant Command or one of its components at any level. It may run in parallel with an FTX or its equivalent, or as a stand-alone event for headquarters staff only with heavy emphasis o... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military history | Popular versus academic military history: In terms of the history profession in major countries, military history is an orphan, despite its enormous popularity with the general public. William H. McNeill points out:
This branch of our discipline flourishes in an intellectual ghetto. The 144 books in question [publishe... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military history | A rule of thumb is that if your enemy has a potentially war winning weapon, you have to either match it or neutralize it.
Ancient era: Chariots originated around 2000 BC. The chariot was an effective, fast weapon; while one man controlled the maneuvering of the chariot, a second bowman could shoot arrows at enemy sold... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military history | They were used heavily in the First and Second World Wars. Air-deployed naval mines were used to mine the North Vietnamese port of Haiphong during the Vietnam War. The Iraqi Navy of Saddam Hussein used naval mines extensively during the Tanker War, as part of the Iran–Iraq War.
The first navigable submarine was built i... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military history | The first indications of the countermarch technique in Europe was by Lord William Louis of Nassau (1538–1574) in the mid-1590s.
Korea also seemed to be adapting the volley technique, earlier than even the Japanese. "Koreans seem to have employed some kind of volley principle with guns by 1447, when the Korean King Sejo... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military history | Chanakya's Arthashastra contains a detailed study on ancient warfare, including topics on espionage and war elephants.
Alexander the Great invaded Northwestern India and defeated King Porus in the Battle of the Hydaspes River. The same region was soon re conquered by Chandragupta Maurya after defeating the Macedonians... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military history | They invaded Vietnam (northern Vietnam had been in Chinese control since the Han dynasty), fighting the troops of Champa, who had cavalry mounted on elephants. After decades of economic turmoil and a failed invasion of Korea, the Sui collapsed and was followed by the Tang dynasty, who fought with various Turkic groups,... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military intelligence | Levels: Intelligence operations are carried out throughout the hierarchy of political and military activity.
Strategic: Strategic intelligence is concerned with broad issues such as economics, political assessments, military capabilities and intentions of foreign nations (and, increasingly, non-state actors). Such int... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military intelligence | A good intelligence officer will also ask a fairly large number of questions in order to help anticipate needs. For an important policy-maker, the intelligence officer will have a staff to which research projects can be assigned.
Developing a plan of attack is not the responsibility of intelligence, though it helps an ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military justice | Canada: All Commands of the Canadian Forces (CF) (that is, Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Air Force, Canadian Joint Operations Command, and Canadian Special Operations Forces Command) are primarily governed by the National Defence Act (NDA). Section 12 of the NDA§ authorizes the governor in council... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military justice | The district court has a learned civilian judge and two military members. One of them is an officer and the other a warrant officer, an NCO or a private. The court of appeals, that acts as the first instance for the prosecution of officers with at least major's rank, will have a military member who has at least a major... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military justice | There is increasing voice in the country for the reform on the lines other liberal democracies are seeing in their military justice system.
United Kingdom: The United Kingdom's arrangements for justice in the armed forces dates back many centuries to the Articles of War. In the late 19th Century this was added to the... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military logistics | Etymology and definition: The word "logistics" is derived from the Greek adjective logistikos meaning "skilled in calculating", and its corresponding Latin word logisticus. In turn this comes from the Greek logos, which refers to the principles of thought and action. Another Latin root, log-, gave rise around 1380 to ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military logistics | History: The history of military logistics goes back to Neolithic times. The most basic requirements of an army were food and water. Early armies were equipped with weapons used for hunting like spears, knives, axes and bows and arrows, and rarely exceeded 20,000 men due to the practical difficulty of supplying a large... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military medicine | Legal status: Military medical personnel engage in humanitarian work and are "protected persons" under international humanitarian law in accordance with the First and Second Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, which established legally binding rules guaranteeing neutrality and protection for wounded sold... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military operation | Types of military operations: Military operations can be classified by the scale and scope of force employment, and their impact on the wider conflict. The scope of military operations can be:
Theater: this describes an operation over a large, often continental, area of operation and represents a strategic national co... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military operations other than war | Overview: MOOTW purposes may include deterring potential aggressors, protecting national interests, and supporting UN objectives.
Peacetime and conflict represent two states of the range of military operations.
Peacetime is a state in which diplomatic, economic, informational, and military powers are employed in combi... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military organization | History: The use of formalized ranks in a hierarchical structure came into widespread use with the Roman Army.
In modern times, executive control, management and administration of military organization is typically undertaken by governments through a government department within the structure of public administration, ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military organization | At the top of the ladder, what other nations would call an army group, the Red Army called a front. By contrast, during the same period the German Wehrmacht army groups, particularly on the Eastern Front, such as Army Group Centre significantly exceeded the above numbers, and were more cognate with the Soviet Strategic... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military personnel | Terminology: Military personnel who serve in an army or otherwise large land force are referred to as soldiers. Those who serve in a navy, coast guard, or other seagoing force are seamen or sailors. Naval infantry or marines are personnel who serve both on land and at sea, and may be part of a navy or a marine corps. P... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military police | Military police forces by country:
Americas:
Brazil: "Military police" is a law enforcement agency which follows the Brazilian military rules, responsible for preventative policing of the civilian population. Each state has its own Military Police department, each one is a Gendarmerie. However, and despite their na... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military police | The armed forces, including the various military branches of the PLA and the Chinese People's Armed Police, have their own police pickets units. According to the "Chinese People's Liberation Army Police Regulations", Article 7 stipulates that the "military affairs department of the commanding authority shall be respons... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military police | The Israel Border Police, a branch of the civilian police force, is Israel's gendarmerie equivalent.
The civilian police and military police share a computer database. Suspects apprehended by the civilian police on a civilian charge and wearing civilian clothes turning out to be a deserting or AWOL soldier are turned o... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military police | 'Military Provost') is under the command of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army. The military polices are responsible for guarding and protecting the Presidential Palace, government offices and army offices. They are also responsible for supervising military laws on soldiers and officers. Even though the Bri... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military police | Within the provisions of the Czechoslovak Law No. 124/1992 Dig. regarding the Military Police, they are responsible for police protection of armed forces, military facilities, military material and other state property controlled by the Ministry of Defence. The Military Police are a professional force. Since 1 January ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military police | The 70 members of the Provost Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie Prévôtale) conduct judiciary and disciplinary investigations in foreign garrisons.
The Maritime Gendarmerie, Air Gendarmerie, Ordnance Gendarmerie and Provost Gendarmerie are placed under the dual supervision of the Gendarmerie and the relevant military branch. How... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military police | The first battalion commander and provost marshal of 6. division Norwegian Army was Maj M Langvik, the current battalion commander is Lieutenant Colonel Jan Henry Norvalls. The battalion consists of approximately 50 officers and NCOs, and 150 privates and corporals. Norwegian MPs first go through a six-month selection/... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military police | The Life Guards are also the seat of the Swedish military police unit (MP-enheten) which is responsible for the education of new MPs and is in charge of all MP activities in Sweden. Part of 13th security battalion, which is a counter-intelligence battalion, is also part of the Life Guards and has some soldiers who are ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military policy | Purpose: Military policy identifies threats of hostility and aggression based on intelligence analysis, and defines military scope of national security, defense alliances, combat readiness, military organisation of national forces and their use of military technology.
The national military policy defines the national d... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military rank | Ancient:
Greek: From 501 BC, the Athenians annually elected ten individuals to the rank of strategos, one for each of the ten "tribes" that had been created with the founding of the democracy. Strategos means "army leader" and is usually translated as "general". Originally these generals worked together with the old ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military rank | Each century was led by a centurion (centurio, traditionally translated as captain), who was assisted by a number of junior officers, such as an optio. Centuries were further broken into ten contubernia of eight soldiers each. The manipula were commanded by one of their two centurions, the cohorts by one of their three... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military rank | (National armies were the armies of the kings. Field armies were armies raised by the king to enter the battle field in preparation for major battles.) In French history, lieutenant du roi was a title borne by the officer sent with military powers to represent the king in certain provinces. A lieutenant du roi was some... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military rank | Typical army and marine field officer ranks include colonel, lieutenant colonel, major and, in the British army, captains holding an adjutant's or operations officer appointment. In many Commonwealth countries the field rank of brigadier is used, although it fills the position held by brigadier general in other countri... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military rank | A retired rank is usually kept for life, if the officer concerned so wishes. In the Commonwealth of Nations, such an officer will also hold the style of Esquire, if they do not hold a higher title. In the United Kingdom, an officer of the regular service placed on the retired list or on the reserve will be shown in his... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military rank | During World War II, due to the large scale of combat, multiple corps were combined into field armies commanded in theory by a general (four stars), but often by a lieutenant general (three stars), and comprising as many as 240,000 troops. Armies are numbered by spelled-out numerals or functional titles, using their na... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military recruitment | Demographics:
Gender: Across the world, a large majority of recruits to state armed forces and non-state armed groups are male. The proportion of female personnel varies internationally; for example, it is approximately 3% in India, 10% in the UK, 13% in Sweden, 16% in the US, and 27% in South Africa.
While many stat... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military recruitment | "], and an advertisement for the Israeli Defense Forces encourages potential recruits to "Above all, fight [kravi] for your country, because there is no place better than Israel."
Challenge and adventure. Military life is promised to be exciting, including world travel and adventurous training. In 2015, the British Arm... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military recruitment | Between 1915 and 1918, 42% of all army recruitment posters were themed primarily by patriotism. And though other themes – such as adventure and greater social status – would play an increased role during World War II recruitment, appeals to serve one's country remained the dominant selling point.
Recruitment without c... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military reserve force | History: Some countries' 18th-century military systems included practices and institutions which functioned as a reserve force, even if they were not designated as such. For example, the half-pay system in the British Army provided the country with trained, experienced officers not on active duty during peacetime but a... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military reserve force | They have civilian status, except for the days when they are carrying out their military duties. Most reserve warrant officers are former active duty warrant officers. The main sources of reserve warrant officers are military schools and reserve warrant-officers courses.
In countries with conscription, reserve warrant ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military robot | History: Broadly defined, military robots date back to World War II and the Cold War in the form of the German Goliath tracked mines and the Soviet teletanks. The introduction of the MQ-1 Predator drone was when "CIA officers began to see the first practical returns on their decade-old fantasy of using aerial robots to... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military robot | ), Ethica Themen: Ethical and Legal Aspects of Unmanned Systems. Interviews, Wien 2010
Public Say It's Illegal to Target Americans Abroad as Some Question CIA Drone Attacks, according to Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll - February 7, 2013
The future of warfare: Why we should all be very afraid (2014-07-21... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military science | History: Even until the Second World War, military science was written in English starting with capital letters, and was thought of as an academic discipline alongside physics, philosophy and the medical sciences. In part this was due to the general mystique that accompanied education in a world where, as late as the 1... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military science | Via the study of history, the military seeks to avoid past mistakes, and improve upon its current performance by instilling an ability in commanders to perceive historical parallels during battle, so as to capitalize on the lessons learned. The main areas military history includes are the history of wars, battles, and ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military science | Recruitment and retention: In an all-volunteer military, the armed forces relies on market forces and careful recruiting to fill its ranks. It is thus, very important to understand factors that motivate enlistment and reenlistment. Service members must have the mental and physical ability to meet the challenges of mili... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Military science fiction | Characteristics: Traditional military values of courage under fire, sense of duty, honor, sacrifice, loyalty, and camaraderie are often emphasized. The action is typically described from the point of view of a soldier in a science fictional setting of or near battle. Typically, the technology is more advanced than that... |
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