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Military alliance
Military alliance: a formal treaty between states pledging security cooperation, from ancient Greek pacts to NATO and the Warsaw Pact; defined by treaty form, cooperation, external orientation, and military character, with abandonment-entrapment dilemmas and burden-sharing debates.
Military applications of artificial intelligence
Military applications of artificial intelligence, also called artificial intelligence in warfare, are the uses of AI by armed forces in intelligence analysis, targeting, autonomous weapons, cyber operations, and logistics.
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group
MACV-SOG was a highly classified joint U.S. special operations task force, active January 24, 1964 to April 30, 1972, running covert reconnaissance, sabotage, and PSYOP missions into North Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam under direct Joint Chiefs of Staff reporting.
Military band
A military band is a musical ensemble within a country's armed forces that provides music for ceremonies, morale, recruitment, and public diplomacy, typically built around woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments.
Military base
A military base, also known as a military installation or reservation, is a facility that shelters, supplies, and supports armed forces, from small outposts to installations with airfields and ports.
Military Bath House at Vindolanda
Military Bath House at Vindolanda: Roman fort bath houses at Vindolanda, Northumberland, including a 103-105 bath house and a 3rd-4th century one, hypocaust-heated, used by soldiers, women, and children.
Military beret
Military beret: soft wool uniform cap, from Béarn via the French Chasseurs alpins (la tarte, 1888/1891), black for tank crews, maroon for airborne (1942), US Army black beret 2001.
Military brat
Military brat is an informal, non-pejorative insider term for children raised in military-connected families, marked by frequent PCS moves, school changes, and parental deployment. Origin theories trace it to the British army; research documents both mental health risks and resilience.
Military budget
A military budget, also known as a defense budget or military spending, is the portion of a government's budget allocated to its armed forces, covering personnel, equipment, and operations.
Military budget of China
China's military budget: the official national defense budget (1.94 trillion yuan for 2026, +6.9%), second-largest worldwide; SIPRI estimates total 2025 spending at $336 billion, about 1.4 times the official figure, after 31 straight years of growth.
Military budget of India
The military budget of India is the annual allocation to the Ministry of Defence, the largest single ministry allocation in the Union Budget, about $75 billion in 2024-25.
Military budget of Russia
Russia's military budget: SIPRI estimates $149 billion (7.1% of GDP) in 2024 and ₽15.5 trillion in 2025; IISS gives $186.2 billion on the NATO definition; spending is heavily classified and peaks at 20% of government expenditure.
Military budget of the United States
The military budget of the United States is federal spending on national defense, about $997 billion in 2024, 37 percent of world military spending and 3.2 times China's.
Military cadence
Military cadence (jody call, jody) is a call-and-response chant sung while marching or running. Originated with Pvt. Willie Lee Duckworth's 1944 "Sound Off" at Fort Slocum; roots in African American call-and-response traditions.
Military call sign
A military call sign is an alphanumeric or phonetic letter-number-letter code identifying a unit on a radio net, concealing its real name from an enemy.
Military camouflage
Military camouflage conceals personnel, vehicles, and installations from visual, infrared, and radar detection through background matching and disruptive coloration. Organized at scale in World War I, it is now tested by observer detection tasks and eye tracking and extended by multispectral and adaptive materials.
Military camp
Military camp: an area occupied and organized by an armed force for shelter and protection, from Roman marching camps (castra) with trench-and-rampart defenses to modern base camps; covers layout, construction labor rules, and camp archaeology.
Military career of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler's military career: WWI volunteer in the Bavarian 16th Reserve Infantry Regiment (List Regiment), Gefreiter and regimental dispatch runner, Iron Cross recipient, then Reichswehr intelligence agent 1919–1920.
Military career of Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley's U.S. Army service, 1958-1960: drafted at Memphis, trained at Fort Hood with the 2d Medium Tank Battalion, 37th Armor, then served in the 3rd Armored Division at Friedberg, West Germany, rising to sergeant before discharge at Fort Dix.
Military career of Muhammad
Muhammad's military career covers his campaigns from the 622 hijra to Medina until his death in 632: Badr, Uhud, the Trench, Hudaybiyyah, the conquest of Mecca, Mu'tah, and Tabuk, read through the maghāzī sources and modern military-history scholarship.
Military chaplain
Military chaplain: clergy member attached to an armed force providing spiritual care, rites, confidential counseling, and commander advice; protected noncombatant religious personnel under IHL, with US, European, and Canadian organizational variants.
Military Collegium of the Supreme Court
The Military Collegium of the Supreme Court (Военная коллегия Верховного суда СССР) was a collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR that formalized the Moscow show trials of 1936 to 1938.
Military colours, standards and guidons
Military colours, standards and guidons are ceremonial unit flags: colours for infantry, standards for heavy cavalry, guidons for light cavalry. Once battlefield rallying points, they are now consecrated, Sovereign-presented symbols embroidered with battle honours.
Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank
Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Ngân hàng TMCP Quân đội, MB) is a Vietnamese commercial bank founded in 1994 by the military to serve defense enterprises.
Military Commissioners' Staff Appointment System
The Military Commissioners' Staff Appointment System (幕府辟署制) was the Tang dynasty practice by which military governors personally recruited their headquarters' civil staff, bypassing central appointment.
Military Committee for National Liberation
The Military Committee for National Liberation (Comité militaire de Libération nationale, CMLN) was the military junta that ruled Mali from its 1968 coup, chaired by Moussa Traoré.
Military Council for the Liberation of Syria
Military Council for the Liberation of Syria (المجلس العسكري لتحرير سوريا), a pro-Assad insurgent group formed 6 March 2025 by Brigadier General Ghiath Dalla, ex-Fourth Division officer; led the March 2025 coastal attacks against Syria's transitional government forces.
Military Coup of 1170
The Military Coup of 1170 (무신 정변) was the seizure of power by Goryeo military officers, who massacred civil officials, deposed King Uijong, and enthroned King Myeongjong.
Military coups in Nigeria
Military coups in Nigeria: armed seizures of power, 1966–1993, six successful takeovers and two failed attempts, yielding 29 years of military rule before the 1999 democratic transition.
Military coups in Pakistan
Military coups in Pakistan are national power seizures by the military that have governed Pakistan for 33 of its 77 years, notably involving figures like Ayub Khan and Pervez Musharraf.