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- The Bronze Star Medal is a United States Armed Forces individual military decoration which may be awarded for bravery, acts of merit, or meritorious ...11 KB (1,788 words) - 04:34, 22 November 2023
- vehicle that is protected by armor and armed with weapons. Most AFVs are ... designed primarily to engage enemy forces by the use of direct fire ...10 KB (1,555 words) - 03:51, 15 August 2023
- The Silver Star is the third highest military decoration that can be awarded to a member of any branch of the United States Armed Forces. The ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 22:08, 29 January 2023
- Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field" (first ... Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea" (first adopted ...11 KB (1,605 words) - 06:47, 18 April 2024
- to bring harmony and cooperation within the armed forces. ... the British Military and the Canadian armed forces. For members of the United ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 08:45, 10 January 2024
- On July 26, 1953, a group of approximately one hundred poorly armed ... "Che" Guevara, who joined their forces. They were trained by Alberto ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 19:27, 5 June 2020
- The Korean forces, known as "Tiger Hunters," were led by ... ==The armed conflict== On June 10, 1871, the Americans attacked Choji ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 11:56, 3 May 2023
- at Hyphasis. Alexander divided his forces, leading one group campaigning ... Alexander left behind a contingent of Greek forces which established ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 15:30, 28 January 2023
- in the world, the Republic of Korea Armed Forces, or ROK Armed Forces ... Although the National Armed Forces Organization Act stipulates that ...22 KB (3,202 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- was that the local government and police forces were made up mostly of those ... camps on Mt. Hallasan and the government forces held the coastal towns. Farming ...12 KB (1,861 words) - 04:44, 31 July 2022
- had made the journey to the new territory, armed and ready to fight. Kansas, and in November 1854, thousands of armed Southerners known as "border ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2023
- Whites were combined into the so called Armed Forces of South Russia (Вооружённые ... by General Denikin and named the "Armed Forces of the South of Russia ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 18:55, 31 October 2022
- catch, not worth the trouble of an armed conflict. Ganghwa Island, ... Goryeo took refuge on the island as Mongol forces invaded in 1232. ...8 KB (1,114 words) - 04:25, 18 April 2024
- degree and constitute the main bulk of armed forces available for defense ... referred to the land component of the armed forces, both regular (full time ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- the Indian Military, Pakistan's armed forces had a qualitative edge ... * Iqbal, Pervaiz. The Armed Forces of Pakistan. Allen & Unwin ...17 KB (2,428 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- and the Unified Command of Pact Armed Forces, which had authority over ... Warsaw Pact forces were utilized at times, such as during the 1968 ...11 KB (1,642 words) - 22:57, 3 May 2023
- sacking of Lawrence, Kansas by pro-slavery forces, John Brown and a band of ... Sovereign proclaiming that proslavery forces "are determined to repel ...7 KB (1,185 words) - 05:55, 30 November 2022
- “generally refer to conflicts with armed forces on either side which are ... additional requirement for identifiable armed forces. The December 1990 version ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- naval arm of the Weimar Republic’s Armed Forces. He commanded torpedo ... to ensuring the loyalty of the German armed forces and trying to ensure German ...19 KB (2,885 words) - 18:15, 14 May 2024
- The Korean Peninsula had been divided between occupation forces of ... North Korea to withdraw forthwith their armed forces to the 38th parallel; ...16 KB (2,534 words) - 11:49, 3 May 2023
- the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and of civilians in times ... to the observance of members of the armed forces who were killed during war. ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- The armed forces disposed of a vast arsenal of grenades and bombs ... were quite vocal in blessing the armed forces of their Italian “fatherland ...21 KB (3,220 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- in the Roman civil war between the forces supporting Octavian and those ... of a severe malaria that had struck his forces while he was waiting for ...9 KB (1,410 words) - 05:41, 15 June 2023
- officer-commissioning program for the armed forces. Its founder, Captain ... officers in all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces except the U.S. Coast ...25 KB (3,768 words) - 19:43, 16 April 2023
- struggle through the dual process of armed conflict and negotiation ... ZAPU forces committed many acts of violence during their war to overthrow ...18 KB (2,723 words) - 05:07, 7 May 2024
- dissatisfaction among Royal Indian Armed Forces during and after the war ... dissatisfaction among Royal Indian Armed Forces during and after the war ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 15:58, 7 December 2022
- Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821), was an armed conflict between ... However, the rebel army failed to defeat the large and heavily-armed ...15 KB (2,102 words) - 16:30, 9 November 2022
- that is awarded to members of the U.S. armed forces who are wounded by the ... the United States to any member of the Armed Forces of the United States who ...23 KB (3,569 words) - 00:25, 3 December 2022
- Military historians classify suicide bombing as a form of armed violence ... installations, armored vehicles, or armed and wary soldiers. The consistent ...11 KB (1,667 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
- refers to the combination of the U.S. armed forces, its arms industry, and ... proportion of people serving in the armed forces—was 12.2 percent, which ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 16:24, 13 September 2023
- as the Anti-Sandinista Guerrilla Special Forces, the 15th of September Legion ... with the Nicaraguan Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARN) as its armed wing. ...20 KB (2,936 words) - 02:50, 8 January 2024
- warriors joined Attila the Hun's forces in the Battle of Chalons ... the Alani drawing up a battle-line of heavy-armed and the Heruli of light-armed ...12 KB (1,794 words) - 04:34, 30 November 2022
- workers, and by October most of these armed workers had gone over to ... When Adolf Hitler's forces invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, ...14 KB (1,980 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- of all Conakry and the country's armed forces. According to Guinée ... === Armed forces === Guinea's armed forces numbered about 9,700 ...23 KB (3,314 words) - 23:40, 25 March 2024
- ===Armed Forces Retirement Home=== * President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home National Monument--District of Columbia (managed by the non-profit ...19 KB (2,589 words) - 16:14, 11 November 2022
- study of the Confucian classics rather than armed rebellion. In April 1860 ... 1854-1895) defeated the government forces at the Battle of Gobu, after ...15 KB (2,185 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- military skills, taught the Cuban forces what would be their most ... invasion of that country), as Chief of the Armed Forces. ...12 KB (1,919 words) - 05:40, 27 February 2023
- on a colonial project. However, Allied forces eventually captured Italian ... Verlaci was established. The Albanian armed forces were subsumed into Italian ...17 KB (2,625 words) - 06:22, 11 March 2024
- requires the mobilization not only of armed forces but also of whole populations ... Not only were men and women conscripted into the armed forces from ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 17:18, 4 November 2022
- to international borders, since all air forces clearly demarcate training ... the Kargil Conflict, where both nuclear armed countries fought high altitude ...17 KB (2,490 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- his supporters and the new imperial forces, Kaishu negotiated the peaceful ... States Navy led a squadron of heavily armed warships into the bay off ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 17:15, 5 October 2022
- in a guerrilla war between government forces and the National Resistance ... then deputy commander of the Ugandan armed forces. When the Parliament demanded ...20 KB (3,066 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
- with Western superior firepower and armed forces. Either adopt Western ... * Grimmett, Richard F. Instances of use of United States Armed Forces ...14 KB (2,195 words) - 06:44, 18 April 2024
- Qi of Qin (state) once defeated the allied forces of Han (state) and Wei (state ... reveal two new figures: A four-headed, four-armed Brahma and a one headed, ...11 KB (1,501 words) - 02:38, 4 November 2022
- the DIA and intelligence groups within the armed services, but other agencies ... the separate intelligence staffs of the armed forces as well as civilian intelligence ...18 KB (2,595 words) - 10:58, 10 March 2023
- the Edo period. It was the last major armed conflict in Japan until the ... from the region opposed the Tokugawa forces in the Battle of Sekigahara ...25 KB (3,619 words) - 19:58, 21 April 2023
- the east. Reports claim that the Ethiopian armed presence in the region, which ... then a lull as both sides mobilized huge forces along their common border ...22 KB (3,294 words) - 19:30, 13 February 2024
- The military law of England in early times existed, like the forces ... obligation of every member of the U.S. armed forces, a principle established ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- and was regarded as the beginning of the armed struggle in which some Irish ... In such a case he believed that an armed rebellion would have mass ...29 KB (4,554 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2020
- was subject to constant harassment by Ottoman forces. Upon the sudden ... the Turks with four times the Hungarian forces. Nevertheless, victory was ...19 KB (2,971 words) - 07:01, 8 April 2024
