Introduction The Contestado War (Portuguese: Guerra do Contestado), broadly speaking, was a guerrilla war for land between settlers and landowners, the latter supported by the Brazilian state’s police and military forces, that lasted from October 1912 to August 1916. It was fought in an inland southern region of the country, rich in wood and yerba… Read More
Introduction A joint base (JB) is a base of the armed forces of the United States utilised by multiple military services; one service hosts one or more other services as tenants on the base. In most cases, joint bases have interservice support agreements (ISSAs) to govern how the host provides services to the tenants. The… Read More
Introduction In current military use, combined operations are operations conducted by forces of two or more allied nations acting together for the accomplishment of a common strategy, a strategic and operational and sometimes tactical cooperation. Interaction between units and formations of the land, naval and air forces, or the cooperation between military and civilian authorities… Read More
Introduction Joint warfare is a military doctrine that places priority on the integration of the various branches of a state’s armed forces into one unified command. Joint warfare is in essence a form of combined arms warfare on a larger, national scale, in which complementary forces from a state’s army, navy, air, coastal, space, and… Read More
Introduction Interservice rivalry is rivalry between different branches of a country’s armed forces. This may include competition between land, marine, naval, coastal, air, or space forces. Interservice rivalry can occur over such topics as the appropriation of the military budget, prestige, or the possession of certain types of equipment or units. The latter case can… Read More
Introduction Military parlance is the vernacular used within the military and embraces all aspects of service life; it can be described as both a “code” and a “classification” of something. Like many close and closed communities, the language used can often be full of jargon and not readily intelligible to outsiders – sometimes this is… Read More
Introduction In military parlance, the rear is the part of concentration of military forces that is farthest from the enemy (compare its antonym, the front). Outline The rear typically contains all logistic and management elements of the force necessary to support the front line forces, and generally constitutes supply depots, ammunition dumps, field hospitals, machine… Read More
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