Definition of military force Military force
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What does military force mean?
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| military force - a unit that is part of some military service; "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men" | ||
| military unit, military group, force | ||
| social unit, unit a single undivided whole; "an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another" | ||
| armed service, military service, service land tenure by service in the lord's army | ||
| armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" | ||
| trip wire a wire stretched close to the ground that activates something (a trap or camera or weapon) when tripped over | ||
| command availability for use; "the materials at the command of the potters grew" | ||
| enemy any hostile group of people; "he viewed lawyers as the real enemy" | ||
| task force a temporary military unit formed to accomplish a particular objective | ||
| army unit a military unit that is part of an army | ||
| naval unit a military unit that is part of a navy | ||
| air unit a military unit that is part of the airforce | ||
| armor, armour tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant | ||
| mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad; "some call the mujahidin international warriors but others just call them terrorists" | ||
| guard a position on a basketball team | ||
| legion a large military unit; "the French Foreign Legion" | ||
| echelon a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset | ||
| phalanx any of the bones of the fingers or toes | ||
| republican guard formerly Iraq's elite military unit whose primary role was to protect the government in Baghdad | ||
| haganah the clandestine military wing of the Jewish leadership during the British rule over the mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948; became the basis for the Israeli defense force | ||
| idf, israeli defense force the ground and air and naval forces of Israel | ||
| reserves, militia civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army | ||
| commando an amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory | ||
| contingent, detail a gathering of persons representative of some larger group; "each nation sent a contingent of athletes to the Olympics" | ||
| headquarters the military installation from which a commander performs the functions of command; "the general's headquarters were a couple of large tents" | ||
| spearhead the head and sharpened point of a spear | ||
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military force
An organised group of people that exerts power in order to maintain or take control over other people; such as a military force or a police force.
