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War and the military Military of  Ancient Rome  Australia Bangladesh Canada Germany  Greece Pakistan Turkey United Kingdom (British Army Royal Air Force Royal Navy) United States ( Air Force Army Coast Guard Marine Corps Navy) … Military history of  Africa France the Ottoman Empire …… American Civil War American Revolutionary War Cold War Crusades Italian Wars Napoleonic Wars War of 1812 World War I World War II …… Battleships Biological warfare Submarine Tank Weapons of mass destruction …… NATO  Terrorism The war portal edit  Introduction The Battle of Austerlitz by François Gérard. War is a state of conflict between relatively large groups of people (such as nations, states, organizations, social groups), which is characterized by the use of armed lethal violence between combatants or upon civilians. Other terms for war, which often serve as euphemisms, include armed conflict, hostilities, and police action. A common perception of war is a series of military campaigns between at least two or more opposing sides involving a dispute over sovereignty, territory, resources, ideology or a host of other issues. A war to liberate an occupied country is sometimes characterised as a "war of liberation", while a war between internal elements of the same state may constitute a civil war. Aside from humans and their primate brethren, ants are the only other species known to exhibit such behavior on a large scale. A battle is a single engagement fought between two or more parties, wherein each party or aligned group will seek to defeat their opponent. Battles are most often fought during military campaigns and can usually be well defined in time, space and action. Wars are generally the continuum of a related series of battles and are guided by strategy, whereas individual battles are the stage on which tactics are employed. Military history is the recording and analysis of those events in the history of humanity that fall within the category of organised armed conflict, and that relate to the institutions and organizations that prosecute such conflict. “ If you want peace, prepare for war.(Si vis pacem, para bellum) ” — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus edit  Featured article Thrasybulus was an Athenian general and democratic leader. In 411 BC, in the wake of an oligarchic coup at Athens, the pro-democracy sailors at Samos elected him as a general, making him a primary leader of the successful democratic resistance to that coup. As general, he was responsible for recalling the controversial nobleman Alcibiades from exile, and the two worked together extensively over the next several years. In 411 and 410, Thrasybulus commanded several critical Athenian naval victories, along with Alcibiades and others. After Athens' defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Thrasybulus led the democratic resistance to the new oligarchic government, known as the Thirty Tyrants, that the victorious Spartans imposed on Athens. In 404 BC, he commanded a small force of exiles that invaded Attica and, in successive battles, defeated first a Spartan garrison and then the forces of the oligarchics. In the wake of these victories, democracy was reestablished in Athens. As a leader of this revived democracy in the 4th century BC, Thrasybulus advocated a policy of resistance to Sparta and sought to restore Athens' imperial power. He was killed in 388 BC while leading an Athenian naval force in the Corinthian War. edit  Did you know...? ... that the French stormed the Bagration flèches (pictured) eight times during the Battle of Borodino in 1812? ... that troops of Tadayoshi Sano, a lieutenant general for the Imperial Japanese Army, were reported to have committed atrocities against civilians in Hong Kong and British prisoners of war? ... that besides training its own officers, the Pakistan Naval Academy has trained over 2000 officers of allied navies including the Chief of Naval Staff of the Qatar Emiri Navy? ... that in 1847 French Admiral Jean-Baptiste Cécille sent a captain to attack Vietnam to obtain the release of a bishop, not knowing the bishop had already been freed? edit  Featured picture The Teller-Ulam design is a nuclear weapons design used for megaton-range thermonuclear weapons or hydrogen bombs. It uses a fission bomb as a trigger to ignite a fusion explosion by compressing the fusion fuel with a radiation implosion. Illustration credit: Fastfission edit  Selected anniversaries November 24 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain - Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg. 1941 - World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French. 1944 - World War II: Bombing of Tokyo - The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land was made by 88 American aircraft. edit  Major topics and categories Eras of warfare Overview • Prehistoric • Ancient • Medieval • Gunpowder • Industrial • Modern Types of warfare Aerial • Amphibious • Arctic • Armoured • Artillery • Asymmetric • Attrition • Biological • Cavalry • Chemical • Conventional • Desert • Electronic • Ground • Guerrilla • Fortification • Herbicidal • Infantry • Information • Jungle • Maneuver • Mechanized • Mercenary • Mountain • Naval • Network-centric • Nuclear • Psychological • Radiological • Siege • Ski • Space • Sub-aquatic • Submarine • Surface • Total • Trench • Unconventional • Urban Categories ▼ Military ► Military by continent ► Military by country ► Military lists ► Military art ► Military orders, awards and decorations ► Military comparisons ► Military culture ► Military diplomacy ► Military disbanding and disarmament ► Military economics ► Military fiction ► Military in fiction ► Military history ► Military industry ► Military law ► Media of the military ► Military firefighting ► Military reforms ► Military operations ► Military organization ► People killed by armed forces ► Military personnel ► Military planning ► Military roads ► Military science ► Military terminology ► Military works ► Works about the military ► Military writers ► Military images ► Military stubs ▼ War ► War by medium ► Warfare by type ► Categories by war ► Metaphors referring to war and violence ► Aftermath of war ► Anti-war ► Causes of war ► War deities ► Environmental issues with war ► Laws of war ► Looting ► War and the media ► Military and war museums ► Military operations ► People associated with war ► War and politics ► War in popular culture ► Wars ► Works about wars Lists Armies • Battles • Civil wars • Corps • Divisions • Fleets • Invasions • Operations • Orders of battle • Sieges • Tactics • Wars • Weapons • World War II Commanders Other related topics Genocide • Peace • United Nations edit  Other Wikimedia projects edit  Things you can do Summary of Military history WikiProject open tasks watch · edit · full list News and announcements The October-November backlog drive has started. 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