Encyclopedia > Military history

  Article Content

Military history

History -- Military history

Military history is the recording (in writing or otherwise) of the events in the history of Man that fall within the category of "conflict". This may range from a dispute between two tribes that come to blow over a plot of land, to a world war.

Table of contents

Types of warfare

"Conventional" warfare involves well-identified, armed soldiers fighting one another in a relatively open and straightforward way.

"Unconventional"[?], or Asymmetric warfare, involves guerrilla, insurgency[?], and terrorist tactics. This type of warfare has a longer history than most people imagine.

Military Unit Types

Classified by Era:

Classified by Region:

Philippines United States

Reporting of Military Events

Miscellaneous military history

See also



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Digital Rights Management

... include in all computer systems obligatory mechanisms controlling use in ways deemed by copyright holders to be unacceptable. See Professor Edward Felten's ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 83.9 ms