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War and military
Basics
Basics
Casualty (person)
Military personnel, unavailable for duty
Confidentiality
Confidentiality means not disclosing information obtained while carrying out your professional duties
Conscription
Compulsory enlistment into national or military service
Desertion
Abandonment of military duty without authorization
Duel
Arranged engagement in combat between two individuals
Ethnic cleansing
Systematic removal of a certain ethnic or religious group
Genocide
Intentional destruction of all or a significant part of a racial, ethnic, religious or national group
Impressment
Forced naval service with or without notice
Just war theory
Doctrine about when a war is ethically just
Medal
Small commemorative artistic object
Militarism
National reliance on a strong military
Military occupation
Effective provisional control of a certain power over a territory
Military recruitment
Recruitment for military positions
Mutual assured destruction
Doctrine of military strategy
Prisoner of war
Military term for a captive of the enemy
Privateer
Person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under commission by a sovereign or other authority
Refugee
Displaced person
War (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
War crime
Individual act constituting a violation of the laws of war
War effort
Coordinated mobilization of society's resources towards supporting a military force
Women in the military
Women participating in military activities