CZ:Military Workgroup

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Military Workgroup
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The War Workgroup will organize and coordinate efforts to create and improve articles relating to military affairs. If you are interested in participating, you may add yourself to Category:Military Authors, discuss issues on the Military Workgroup Forum, or simply dive in and begin contributing. If you'd like to be an editor, please follow these instructions and you will, if accepted, be added to Category:Military Editors.

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High priority articles

In the list of articles below, the existence of an approved version is indicated by underlining.

If you begin work on one of the articles from the list below, please be sure to add the article to the Military Workgroup list (add [[Category:Military Workgroup]] at the bottom of the article's page). If you edit the list, please be sure to keep them in alphabetical order, according to their categories and sub-categories.

If you want to import one of these articles from Wikipedia, please read How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles first. In particular, please do not import WP articles unless you plan or beginning work on them "within the hour" as the article says.


In alphabetical order, according to category.

Main subject areas

Air Force | Army | Civil War | Military Ethics | Military Law | Military Doctrine | Militia | Navy | Philosophy of War | Soldier | War | Weapon


Weaponry

Artillery | Bow | Small Arms | Gunpowder |Guided missile| Mortar | Nuclear weapon| Precision-guided munition| Ship | Submarine | Tank | Unguided rocket


Biographies

Napoleon Bonaparte | Julius Caesar | Joan of Arc | George Armstrong Custer | Alexander the Great | Hannibal | Georgi Zhukov | Douglas MacArthur | George Patton | Erwin Rommel | Mao Tse-Tung


Military Science & Philosophy

Subject Areas

Military Science | Philosophy of War | Strategy | Tactics

Concepts

Alliance | Blockade | Economic war | Espionage | Fabianism | Guerrilla warfare | Strategic bombing | Subversion | Total war

Thinkers, Scholars, Philosophers, & Strategists

Charles Ardant du Picq | John Boyd | Carl von Clausewitz | Julian S. Corbett | Giulio Douhet | Waldemar Erfurth | Frederick the Great | J.F.C. Fuller | Hugo von Freytag-Loringhoven | Antoine-Henri Jomini | Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb | Sir Basil Liddell Hart | Alfred Thayer Mahan |Roger Trinquier| Maurice de Saxe | William Mitchell | Miyamoto Musashi | Sun Tzu | John Warden III Vegetius


Military Justice, Law, & Ethics

Ethics & Ethical Codes

Bushido | Chivalry | Genocide | Just War theory

Law & Legal Concepts

Geneva Convention | International Law | Martial Law | Military Law | Treaties | War Crimes

Events

Court-martial of Billy Mitchell | Nuremberg trials | Tokyo war crimes trials |


Military Forces, Branches, Institutions, & Structures

Force Types

Army | Air Force | Navy | Coast Guard | Naval infantry | Special Operations

Unit Types

  • Ancient & Pre-Modern

Archer | Dragoon | Foot Soldier | Horse Calvary | Knight | Pikeman | Samurai | Skirmisher

  • Modern

General Types

Aviator | Calvary | Infantry | Mechanized Infantry | Sailor

Specialties

Airborne | Intelligence | Medic | Military Police | Reconnaissance | Special Operations | Sniper

Ranks & Rank Structures

  • Types

Commissioned Officer | Enlisted | Non-commissioned officer | Warrant Officer

  • Ranks (By country, according to branches)
Land and air forces

Field Marshal | General | Lieutenant general | Major general | Brigadier general | Colonel | Lieutenant colonel | Major | Captain | First lieutenant | Second lieutenant

Naval forces

Fleet admiral|Admiral|Vice admiral|Rear admiral | Commodore | Captain (naval) | Commander (naval) | Lieutenant Commander | Lieutenant (naval)

Military Institutions

Military Academy
US Military Academy: West Point, NY
US Coast Guard Academy; New London, CT
US Naval Academy: Annapolis, MD
US Air Force Academy: Colorado Springs, CO


Civilian US Military Academies
Virginia Military Institute
The Citadel
Norwich University

Activities

Propaganda | Recreation | Recruitment | Training


Military History

Development of Warfare

In chronological order.

  • Western Warfare

Ancient | Roman | Medieval | Renaissance | Modern

  • Eastern Warfare

Ancient

Periods of Warfare

Three Kingdoms period | Warring States period

Wars in history (in chronological order)

Note: many of these entries will also be High Priority articles in the History Workgroup.

Crusades | Hundred Years' War | American Revolutionary War | American Civil War | World War I | World War II

Battles

Battle of Agincourt | Battle of Hastings | Battle of Waterloo | Culloden | Siege of Orleans