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Doctrine
- Military doctrine: Add brief definition or description
- Grand strategy: Add brief definition or description
- Strategy (military: Add brief definition or description
- Total Force Concept: Add brief definition or description
- National technical means of verification: Euphemism principally for imagery intelligence satellites and other means of strategic arms control verification, principally because the Soviet Union did not want its public to know that they could not prevent Western observation of the state [e]
- Operational art: Add brief definition or description
- Centers of gravity (military): Add brief definition or description
- John Boyd: Add brief definition or description
- John Warden III: Add brief definition or description
- Corps: Add brief definition or description
- Swarming (military): Add brief definition or description+
United States
- Joint Chiefs of Staff: The staff committee of the most senior members of the U.S. military services, charged with policy advice, doctrinal development, and preparedness rather than operational control of forces [e]
- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: The senior member of the uniformed services of the United States, statutory senior military adviser to the President and Secretary of Defense; currently Admiral Mike Mullen; policy developer and adviser not in the operational chain of command [e]
- National Command Authority: Add brief definition or description
- National Security Act of 1947: Core of legislation that restructured the U.S. military from its traditional structure of a separate Army and Navy, creating the United States Air Force, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the predecessor to the U.S. Department of Defense [e]
- National Security Council: Both the senior foreign policy committee of principal officers of the executive branch of the United States of America, chaired by the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and, by extension, the professional staff reporting to the Assistant [e]
- Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs: Add brief definition or description
- United States Central Command: Add brief definition or description
- United States European Command: Add brief definition or description
- United States Joint Forces Command: Add brief definition or description
- United States Special Operations Command: Add brief definition or description
- United States Secretary of Defense: The civilian official with authority over all personnel of the United States Department of Defense, currently Robert Gates [e]
- United States Secretary of State: The senior cabinet officer of the United States, responsible for the conduct of diplomacy, currently Hillary Clinton [e]
- United States Strategic Command: Add brief definition or description
- United States Transportation Command: Add brief definition or description
- George Kistiakowsky: Add brief definition or description
Command, Control and Communications
- Command and control: Add brief definition or description
- Common operational picture: Add brief definition or description
- Force multiplier: Add brief definition or description
- Fratricide: The killing of one's brother, but in a military context, the killing of one's own forces ("friendly fire"). [e]
- Swarming (military): Add brief definition or description
- Synchronization: Add brief definition or description
Joint
- Global Information Grid: Add brief definition or description
- Single Integrated Operational Plan: The U.S. plan and doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons in a large campaign, prepared for all services by the U.S. Strategic Command, based on Joint Chiefs of Staff guidance [e]
- Air tasking order: Add brief definition or description
- Global Command and Control System: Add brief definition or description (GCCS) for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Unified Combatant Command commanders
- Joint Operation Planning and Execution System: Add brief definition or description(JOPES).
Army
- Army Battle Command System: Add brief definition or description
- Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below: Add brief definition or description
- Forward Area Air Defense: Add brief definition or description
- Army Airspace Command and Control: Add brief definition or description
- Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System: Add brief definition or description
- Battle Command and Sustainment Support System: Add brief definition or description
- AEGIS battle management system: Add brief definition or description
- Cooperative Engagement Capability: Add brief definition or description
- Navy Fire Control System: Add brief definition or description
Communications
- Joint Tactical Information Distribution System: Add brief definition or description
- Joint Tactical Radio System: Add brief definition or description
- SINCGARS: Add brief definition or description
- HAVE QUICK II: Add brief definition or description
- NIPRNET: Add brief definition or description
- JWICS: Add brief definition or description
- SIPRNET: Add brief definition or description
- Mobile Subscriber Equipment: Add brief definition or description
Ground Combat arms
Branches of Service; specialties
- Air defense artillery: Add brief definition or description
- Air assault: Add brief definition or description
- Armor (military unit): Add brief definition or description
- Artillery: Add brief definition or description
- Army Cooperation Aviation: Add brief definition or description
- Cavalry: Add brief definition or description
- Combat engineer: Add brief definition or description
- Infantry: Add brief definition or description
- Paratroop: Add brief definition or description
- Special operations: Add brief definition or description
Combat Service Support
- High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle: Add brief definition or description
- Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck: Add brief definition or description
- Heavy Equipment Transporter System: Add brief definition or description
Tactics
- Ambush: Add brief definition or description
- Meeting engagement: Add brief definition or description
- Raid: Add brief definition or description
- Reconnaissance: Add brief definition or description
- Special reconnaissance: Add brief definition or description
- Sniper: Add brief definition or description
Ground weapons
- Armored vehicle: Add brief definition or description
- Armored fighting vehicle: Add brief definition or description
- Anti-aircraft artillery: Add brief definition or description
- BTR (armored personnel carrier): Add brief definition or description
- BMP (armored fighting vehicle): Add brief definition or description
- BRDM (armored fighting vehicle): Add brief definition or description
- Autocannon: Add brief definition or description
- Edged weapon: Add brief definition or description
- Howitzer: Add brief definition or description
- Indirect fire: Add brief definition or description
- M1 Abrams (tank): Add brief definition or description
- M2 Bradley (armored fighting vehicle): Add brief definition or description
- M4 Sherman (tank): Add brief definition or description
- M113 (armored personnel carrier): Add brief definition or description
- M109 howitzer: Add brief definition or description
- Machine gun: Add brief definition or description
- Mortar: Add brief definition or description
- Multiple rocket launcher: Add brief definition or description
- Mine (land warfare): Add brief definition or description
- T-34 (tank): Add brief definition or description
- T-54 (tank): Add brief definition or description
- T-72 (tank): Add brief definition or description
Organization and organizations
- Echelons above Corps: Add brief definition or description
- Corps: Add brief definition or description
- Division: Add brief definition or description
- Brigade: Add brief definition or description
- Battalion: Add brief definition or description
- Company (land forces): Add brief definition or description
- Restructuring of the United States Army: Add brief definition or description
- United States Army Special Forces: Add brief definition or description
Air warfare doctrine
- Battlefield air interdiction: Add brief definition or description
- Close air support: Add brief definition or description
Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Nuclear weapon: Add brief definition or description
- Radiological weapon: Add brief definition or description
- Chemical weapon: Add brief definition or description
- Single Integrated Operational Plan: The U.S. plan and doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons in a large campaign, prepared for all services by the U.S. Strategic Command, based on Joint Chiefs of Staff guidance [e]
- Intercontinental ballistic missile: Add brief definition or description
- Submarine-launched ballistic missile: Add brief definition or description
- Ballistic missile defense: Add brief definition or description
Amphibious warfare
- Large Amphibious Landing Ship: Add brief definition or description
- Charles Krulak: Add brief definition or description
- Marine Air-Ground Task Force: Add brief definition or description
- Naval infantry: Add brief definition or description
- Amphibious ready group: Add brief definition or description
- Landing craft: Add brief definition or description
- Prepositioning ship: Add brief definition or description
Equipment and systems=
Information operations & Military electronics
- AN-: Add brief definition or description
- Radar: Add brief definition or description
- Bistatic: Add brief definition or description
- Multistatic: Add brief definition or description
- APG-63: Add brief definition or description
- APG-65: Add brief definition or description
- APG-68: Add brief definition or description
- APG-70: Add brief definition or description
- APG-73: Add brief definition or description
- APG-79: Add brief definition or description
- APG-81: Add brief definition or description
- APY-2: Add brief definition or description
- APY-7: Add brief definition or description
- MPQ-64: Add brief definition or description
- SPG-62: Add brief definition or description
- SPS-49: Add brief definition or description
- SPY-1: Add brief definition or description
- SPY-2: Add brief definition or description
- TPQ-36: Add brief definition or description
- TPQ-37: Add brief definition or description
- TPQ-47: Add brief definition or description
- TPY-2: Add brief definition or description
- Counterbattery: Add brief definition or description
- Information operations: Add brief definition or description
- Joint Tactical Information Distribution System: Add brief definition or description
- Joint Tactical Radio System: Add brief definition or description
- Electronic warfare: Add brief definition or description
- AAQ-24: Add brief definition or description
- AAR-47: Add brief definition or description
- ALE-47: Add brief definition or description
- ALE-55: Add brief definition or description
- ALQ-162: Add brief definition or description
- ALQ-136: Add brief definition or description
- APQ-164: Add brief definition or description
- ALQ-165: Add brief definition or description
- ALQ-214: Add brief definition or description
- AAR-57: Add brief definition or description
- ALR-93: Add brief definition or description
- AAR-54: Add brief definition or description
- AVR-2: Add brief definition or description
- Night vision devices: Add brief definition or description
- Tactical air navigation: Add brief definition or description TACAN
- TPY-2: Add brief definition or description
Ordnance and Missiles
- Precision guided munition: Add brief definition or description
- Guided missile: Add brief definition or description
- Anti-cruise missile missile: Add brief definition or description
- Satellite orbits: Add brief definition or description
- Semi-active radar homing: Add brief definition or description
- Surface-to-surface missile: Add brief definition or description
- Submarine-launched ballistic missile: Add brief definition or description
- Intercontinental ballistic missile: Add brief definition or description
- Vertical launch system: Add brief definition or description
- Atlas (missile): Add brief definition or description
- Exocet: Add brief definition or description
- BGM-109 Tomahawk: Add brief definition or description
- AGM-84 Harpoon: Add brief definition or description
- Warhead: Add brief definition or description
- Joint Direct Action Munition: Add brief definition or description
- AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon: Add brief definition or description
- Guided bomb: Add brief definition or description
- Gravity bomb: Add brief definition or description
- Cluster munition: Add brief definition or description
- Antitank cluster submunition: Add brief definition or description
- Antipersonnel cluster submunition: Add brief definition or description
- Air-to-air missile: Add brief definition or description
- AIM-7 Sparrow: Add brief definition or description
- AIM-9 Sidewinder: Add brief definition or description
- AIM-120 AMRAAM: Add brief definition or description
- Novator R-172 (missile): Add brief definition or description
- Vympel R-27 (missile): Add brief definition or description
- Vympel R-33 (missile): Add brief definition or description
- Vympel R-73 (missile): Add brief definition or description
- Air-to-surface missile: Add brief definition or description
- AGM-84 Harpoon: Add brief definition or description
- AGM-86 ALCM: Add brief definition or description
- AGM-88 HARM: Add brief definition or description
- AGM-65 Maverick: Add brief definition or description
- AGM-114 Hellfire: Add brief definition or description
- BaE Systems ALARM: Add brief definition or description
- Matra Armat: Add brief definition or description
- Surface-to-air missile: Add brief definition or description
- Anti-ballistic missile: Add brief definition or description
- Anti-satellite missile: Add brief definition or description
- Ballistic missile defense: Add brief definition or description
- Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (missile): Add brief definition or description
- MIM-104 Patriot: Add brief definition or description
- RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile: Add brief definition or description
- RIM-156 Standard SM-2: Add brief definition or description
- RIM-161 Standard SM-3: Add brief definition or description
- RIM-162 ESSM: Add brief definition or description
- RIM-174 Standard SM-6: Add brief definition or description
- S-75 Dvina: Add brief definition or description [[SA-2 GUIDELINE}}
- SA-3 GOA: Add brief definition or description
- S-200 (missile): Add brief definition or description
- Network Centric Airborne Defense Element (missile): Add brief definition or description
- V-1000 (missile): Add brief definition or description
Second World War
- Battle of the Beams: Add brief definition or description
- Battle of Britain: Add brief definition or description
Aircraft
- LC-130: Add brief definition or description
- EC-130 COMMANDO SOLO: Add brief definition or description
- MC-130 COMBAT SPEAR: Add brief definition or description
- MC-130 COMBAT SHADOW: Add brief definition or description
- MC-130 COMBAT TALON: Add brief definition or description
- RC-135 RIVET JOINT: Add brief definition or description
- RC-135 COMBAT SENT: Add brief definition or description
- RC-135 COBRA BALL: Add brief definition or description
- C-130 Hercules: Add brief definition or description
- E-3 Sentry: Add brief definition or description
- E-8 Joint STARS: Add brief definition or description
- EA-6B Prowler: Add brief definition or description
- EF-18 Growler: Add brief definition or description
- F-4 Phantom II: Add brief definition or description
- F-15 Eagle: Add brief definition or description
- F-15E Strike Eagle: Add brief definition or description
- F-16 Fighting Falcon: Add brief definition or description
- F-18 Hornet: Add brief definition or description
- F-18 Super Hornet: Add brief definition or description
- F-22 Raptor: Add brief definition or description
- F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: Add brief definition or description
- F-35A Lightning II: Add brief definition or description
- F-35B Lightning II: Add brief definition or description
- F-35C Lightning II: Add brief definition or description
- F-105: Add brief definition or description
- MiG-15 (fighter): Add brief definition or description
- MiG-17 (fighter): Add brief definition or description
- MiG-19 (fighter): Add brief definition or description
- MiG-21 (fighter): Add brief definition or description
- MiG-23 (fighter): Add brief definition or description
- MiG-25 (fighter): Add brief definition or description
- MiG-29 (fighter): Add brief definition or description
- Clandestine operation: Add brief definition or description
Combat support
- Combat support: Add brief definition or description
- Military police: Add brief definition or description
Combat service suppor=
- Combat service support: Add brief definition or description
- Logistics (military): Add brief definition or description
- Aircraft carrier: Add brief definition or description
- Battleship: Add brief definition or description
- Cruiser: Add brief definition or description
- Destroyer: Add brief definition or description
- Fast attack craft: Add brief definition or description
- Ticonderoga-class: Add brief definition or description
- Burke-class: Add brief definition or description
- Cooperative Engagement Capability: Add brief definition or description
- Compartmented control system: Add brief definition or description
Wars
First World War
- Dardanelles campaign: Add brief definition or description
- Gallipoli campaign: Add brief definition or description
- John Monash: Add brief definition or description
- Battle of Vimy Ridge: Add brief definition or description
- Andrew McNaughton: Add brief definition or description
Second World War
Korean War
Vietnam War
- Lyndon Baines Johnson: Add brief definition or description
- John F. Kennedy: Add brief definition or description
- Dwight David Eisenhower: Add brief definition or description
- John Foster Dulles: Add brief definition or description
- Frederick Nolting Jr.: Add brief definition or description
- Henry Cabot Lodge: Add brief definition or description
- Ellsworth Bunker: Add brief definition or description
- Edward Lansdale: Add brief definition or description
- William Colby: Add brief definition or description
- Lucien Conein: Add brief definition or description
- Harold Johnson: Add brief definition or description
- Maxwell Taylor: Add brief definition or description
- Paul Harkins: Add brief definition or description
- Victor Krulak: Add brief definition or description
- Edward Lansdale: Add brief definition or description
- William Westmoreland: Add brief definition or description
- Stanley Larsen: Add brief definition or description
- Harry Kinnard: Add brief definition or description
- Joseph Galloway: Add brief definition or description
- Neil Sheehan: Add brief definition or description
- David Halberstam: Add brief definition or description
- Walter Cronkite: Add brief definition or description
Gulf War
- Gulf War: Add brief definition or description
- Gulf War, United Nations Security Council Resolutions: Add brief definition or description
- Operation DESERT SHIELD: Add brief definition or description}
- Operation DESERT STORM: Add brief definition or description}
- Operation DESERT SABRE: Add brief definition or description}
- Gulf War, Iraqi order of battle: Add brief definition or description}
- Gulf War, Coalition order of battle: Add brief definition or description}
- H Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.: Add brief definition or description
- Chuck Horner: Add brief definition or description