List of established military terms

This is a list of established military terms which have been in use for at least 50 years. Since technology has changed, not all of them are in current use, or they may have been superseded by more modern terms. However, they are still in current use in articles about previous military periods. Some of them like camouflet have been adapted to describe modern versions of old techniques.

Administrative

Intelligence

On land

Arms and services

Doctrinal

These terms are used for talking about how armed forces are used. Many of the terms below can be applied to combat in other environments although most often used in reference to land warfare.

Ordnance

These terms concern identification of means of combat to inflict damage on the opponent.

Edged

Weapons that inflict damage through cutting or stabbing.

Projectile munitions

Munitions are weapons and ordnance that inflict damage through impact.

Individual

Firearms

Artillery

Crew-served, non-vehicle mounted weapons

Guns

Explosives

Explosive ordnance causes damage through release of force.

Incendiary

Incendiary ordnance causes damage through release of heat.

Vehicles

Engineering

See also List of fortifications

Geographic

Naval

Arms and services

These terms concern combat arms and supporting services of armed forces used in naval warfare.

Doctrinal

These terms concern the type of use of naval armed forces.

Operational

Ordnance

Vessels

Air

Arms and services

These terms concern combat arms and supporting services of armed forces used in air warfare.

Operational

Doctrinal

These terms concern the type of use of aviation armed forces.

Tactics

Ordnance

Aircraft

See also

References

  1.  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Forlorn Hope". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  2. James, Charles (1816), n Universal Military Dictionary, in English and French: In which are Explained the Terms of the Principal Sciences that are Necessary for the Information of an Officer (4 ed.), T. Egerton, p. 798
  3. Murray, Nicholas (2013), The Rocky Road to the Great War: The Evolution of Trench Warfare to 1914 (illustrated ed.), Potomac Books, p. 101, ISBN 9781597975537
  4. 249 "Fergusson on Fortification" Check |url= value (help). The Dublin University Magazine. Dublin: James McGlashan. 34 (199): 250. July–December 1849.
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