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===Military Forces, Branches, Institutions, & Structures===
==Military Forces, Branches, Institutions, & Structures==


====Force Types====
===Force Types===
[[Army]] | [[Air Force]] | [[Navy]] | [[Coast Guard]] | [[Naval infantry]] | [[Special Operations]]
[[Army]] | [[Air Force]] | [[Navy]] | [[Coast Guard]] | [[Naval infantry]] | [[Special Operations]]


====Unit Types====
===Ground (army) Force Types===


*Ancient & Pre-Modern
*Ancient & Pre-Modern
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[[Air Assault]] | [[Intelligence]] | [[Medic]] | [[Military Police]]|[[Special Operations Forces|Special Operations]] | [[Sniper]]
[[Air Assault]] | [[Intelligence]] | [[Medic]] | [[Military Police]]|[[Special Operations Forces|Special Operations]] | [[Sniper]]


====Ranks & Rank Structures====
===Ranks & Rank Structures===


*Types
*Types
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*Ranks (By country, according to branches)
*Ranks (By country, according to branches)
=====Land and air forces=====
[[Field Marshal]] | [[General]] | [[Lieutenant general]] | [[Major general]] | [[Brigadier general]] | [[Colonel]] | [[Lieutenant colonel]] | [[Major]] | [[Captain]] | [[First lieutenant]] | [[Second lieutenant]]
[[Field Marshal]] | [[General]] | [[Lieutenant general]] | [[Major general]] | [[Brigadier general]] | [[Colonel]] | [[Lieutenant colonel]] | [[Major]] | [[Captain]] | [[First lieutenant]] | [[Second lieutenant]]
=====Naval forces=====
===Land and air forces===
====Ranks====
[[Marshal of the Air Force]] | [[Air Chief Marshal]] | [[Air Vice Marshal]] | [[Air Commodore]] | [[Group Captain]]
===Naval forces===
[[Fleet admiral]]|[[Admiral]]|[[Vice admiral]]|[[Rear admiral]] | [[Commodore]] | [[Captain (naval)]] | [[Commander (naval)]] | [[Lieutenant Commander]] | [[Lieutenant (naval)]]
[[Fleet admiral]]|[[Admiral]]|[[Vice admiral]]|[[Rear admiral]] | [[Commodore]] | [[Captain (naval)]] | [[Commander (naval)]] | [[Lieutenant Commander]] | [[Lieutenant (naval)]]


====Military Institutions====
====Military Institutions====

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In alphabetical order, according to category.

Main subject areas

Air Force | Army | Civil War | Military Ethics | Military Law | Military Doctrine | Militia | Navy | Philosophy of War | Soldier | War | Weapon


Weaponry

Artillery|Autocannon | Biological weapon | Bow | Chemical weapon | Small Arms | Gunpowder |Guided missile|Machine gun| Mortar | Multiple rocket launcher | Nuclear weapon| Precision-guided munition| Radiological weapon | Rifle | Ship | Submarine | Tank | Weapons of Mass Destruction | Unguided rocket

Biographies

Napoleon Bonaparte | Julius Caesar | Joan of Arc | George Armstrong Custer | Alexander the Great | Hannibal | Georgi Zhukov | Douglas MacArthur | George Patton | Erwin Rommel | Mao Tse-Tung


Military Science & Philosophy

Subject Areas

Military doctrine | Philosophy of War | Grand strategy| Military strategy | Operational art | Tactics

Concepts

Alliance | Asymmetric warfare | Blockade | Command and control | C3I-ISR |Counterinsurgency | Economic war | Intelligence (information gathering) |Insurgency | Logistics (military) |Network-centric warfare | Strategic bombing | Swarming (military)

Thinkers, Scholars, Philosophers, & Strategists

Charles Ardant du Picq | John Boyd | Carl von Clausewitz | Julian S. Corbett | Giulio Douhet | Waldemar Erfurth | Frederick the Great | J.F.C. Fuller | Hugo von Freytag-Loringhoven | Antoine-Henri Jomini | Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb | Sir Basil Liddell Hart | Alfred Thayer Mahan |Roger Trinquier| Maurice de Saxe | William Mitchell | Miyamoto Musashi | Sun Tzu | John Warden III Vegetius


Military Justice, Law, & Ethics

Ethics & Ethical Codes

Bushido | Chivalry | Genocide | Just War theory

Law & Legal Concepts

Geneva Convention | International Law | Martial Law | Military Law | Treaties | War Crimes

Events

Court-martial of Billy Mitchell | International Military Tribunal| Nuremberg Military Tribunals | International Military Tribunal for the Far East


Military Forces, Branches, Institutions, & Structures

Force Types

Army | Air Force | Navy | Coast Guard | Naval infantry | Special Operations

Ground (army) Force Types

  • Ancient & Pre-Modern

Archer | Dragoon | Foot Soldier | Horse Cavalry | Knight | Pikeman | Samurai | Skirmisher

  • Modern

General Types

Army Coperation Aviation | Artillery (field) | |Artillery (air defense) Armor (branch) | Infantry | Mechanized Infantry | Sailor | Infantry (Parachute)

Specialties

Air Assault | Intelligence | Medic | Military Police|Special Operations | Sniper

Ranks & Rank Structures

  • Types

Commissioned Officer | Enlisted | Non-commissioned officer | Warrant Officer

  • Ranks (By country, according to branches)

Field Marshal | General | Lieutenant general | Major general | Brigadier general | Colonel | Lieutenant colonel | Major | Captain | First lieutenant | Second lieutenant

Land and air forces

Ranks

Marshal of the Air Force | Air Chief Marshal | Air Vice Marshal | Air Commodore | Group Captain

Naval forces

Fleet admiral|Admiral|Vice admiral|Rear admiral | Commodore | Captain (naval) | Commander (naval) | Lieutenant Commander | Lieutenant (naval)


Military Institutions

Military Academy
US Military Academy: West Point, NY
US Coast Guard Academy; New London, CT
US Naval Academy: Annapolis, MD
US Air Force Academy: Colorado Springs, CO


Civilian US Military Academies
Virginia Military Institute
The Citadel
Norwich University

Activities

Propaganda | Recreation | Recruitment | Training


Military History

Development of Warfare

In chronological order.

  • Western Warfare

Ancient | Roman | Medieval | Renaissance | Modern

  • Eastern Warfare

Ancient

Periods of Warfare

Three Kingdoms period | Warring States period

Wars in history (in chronological order)

Note: many of these entries will also be High Priority articles in the History Workgroup.

Crusades | Hundred Years' War | American Revolutionary War | American Civil War | World War I | World War II | Korean War | Vietnam War | Iran-Iraq War | Gulf War | Iraq War

Battles

Battle of Agincourt | Battle of Hastings | Battle of Waterloo | Culloden | Siege of Orleans