Category:Military terminology

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• ► Military slang and jargon‎ (70 P)

A

• ► Ancient Greek military terminology‎ (9 C, 57 P)

C

• ► Cold War terminology‎ (27 P)

G

• ► Glossaries of the military‎ (5 P)

N

• ► Net-centric‎ (17 P)

P

• ► Military terminology of Pakistan‎ (9 P)

S

• ► States by power status‎ (3 C, 19 P)

U

• ► Military terminology of the United States‎ (22 P)

• List of established military terms
• Military terminology

A

• Air Observation Post
• Airborne early warning and control
• Antestature
• Arms race

B

• Base of fire
• Battle command
• Battle cry
• Battlespace
• Body count
• Brevet (military)
• Brevet d'état-major
• Multiservice tactical brevity code
• Bridgehead

C

• Casualty (person)
• CENTRIXS
• Chemical weapon designation
• Circular error probable
• Collateral damage
• Combat air patrol
• Combined Anti-Armor Team
• Common operational picture
• Communications Zone
• Company-grade officer
• Conquest (military)
• Cooking off
• Copenhagenization (naval)
• Council of war
• Counter-battery fire
• Counter-offensive
• Counter-proliferation
• Counterattack
• Countersign (military)
• Coup d'œil
• Cover (military)
• Crémaillère
• Military crest
• Crossing the T
• Culminating point
• Cultural Factors
• Cultural features
• Cultural Features

D

• Debouch
• Defection
• Demilitarized zone
• Demonstration (military)
• Denied area
• Detachment (military)
• Direct fire
• Dogsbody
• Dynamic Terrain
• Dynamic Weather

E

• Economic militarism
• Eingreif division

E cont.

• En cadre
• Enfilade and defilade

F

• Fatigue duty
• Field officer
• Final protective fire
• Fingerspitzengefühl
• Fire for effect
• Fire support
• Fire Support Coordinating Measure
• Flag officer
• For but not with
• Free-fire zone
• Friendly fire
• Full operational capability

G

• Garret
• General Orders for Sentries

H

• High-value target
• Hotwash
• Human-in-the-loop

I

• Identification friend or foe
• Initial operating capability

J

• Junior officer

K

• Kill zone
• Killed in action

L

• Lawful enemy combatant
• Lethality
• Levée en masse
• Line officer
• List of command and control abbreviations
• Live, virtual, and constructive
• Local operational picture
• Loss exchange ratio
• Low rate initial production
• Luftwaffe radio equipment (Funkgerät) of World War II

M

• Mad minute
• Manning the rail
• Marching fire
• Melee
• Military capability
• Military dependent
• Military deployment
• Military designation of days and hours
• Military operations other than war
• Military parlance
• Military supply chain management
• Military urbanism
• Missing in action
• Mobility (military)
• Modeling and simulation
• Model–test–model
• Murder board
• Muster (military)

N

• Naval rating
• Net-centric
• Non-Cooperative Target Recognition

P

• Paramilitary
• Pinned down
• Plausible deniability
• Plot (radar)
• Point target
• Potential superpowers
• Progressive war
• Psc (British Army)
• Pyrrhic victory

R

• Reset (military)
• Round-robin (document)
• Roving commission

S

• Sabre squadron
• Salients, re-entrants and pockets
• Search and destroy
• Shoulder mark
• Signal operating instructions
• Simulation-based acquisition
• Soft target
• Sortie
• Staff ride
• Stand up (military)
• Standard operating procedure
• Static Weather
• Stockpile (military)
• Stomach division
• Strategic communication
• Superpower
• Suppressive fire
• Sustainment (military)
• Synthetic natural environment
• Synthetic psychological environment

T

• Take point
• Target acquisition
• CARVER matrix
• Target of opportunity
• Terminate with extreme prejudice
• Theater (warfare)
• Three Block War
• Time-late
• Tour of duty
• Transition to war

U

• Unmanned aerial vehicle
• Urban terrain

V

• Vallon Man

W

• Wapenshaw
• War bond
• War reserve stock
• Warning shot
• Wartime reserve mode
• Weapon of mass destruction
• Weapon storage area
• Weapons Tight
• World War II Allied names for Japanese aircraft
• Wounded in action