Outline of military science and technology

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to military science:
Military science is the study of the technique, psychology, practice and other phenomena which constitute war and armed conflict. It
strives to be a scientific system that if properly employed, will greatly enhance the practitioner's ability to prevail in an armed conflict with
any adversary. To this end, it is unconcerned whether that adversary is an opposing military force, guerrillas or other irregulars, or any
adversary who knows of or utilizes military science in response.
Contents [hide]
1 Essence of military science and technology
2 Topics within military science
3 Types of military technology
4 Military by region
5 History of military science and technology
5.1 By historical period
5.2 By battlespace
5.3 By terrain
5.4 By weapon technology
5.5 History of military tactics
5.6 History of military strategy
6 General military science and technology concepts
7 Influential military strategists
8 Military science and technology lists
9 See also
10 External links
Essence of military science and technology [edit]
Main article: Military science
Topics within military science [edit]
Military organization
Military education and training
Military history
Military geography
Military technology and equipment
Military strategy and doctrine
Intelligence cycle management
Foreign policy analysis
Diplomacy
Types of military technology [edit]
Main article: Weapon
Armour protective clothing intended to defend its wearer from intentional harm in combat and military engagements, typically
associated with soldiers
Artillery large caliber weapons firing projectiles one at a time. Artillery pieces are crew serviced weapons that provide direct or
indirect trajectories for the shell
Medieval siege weaponry
Fortifications military constructions and buildings designed for defense in warfare
Martial arts also known as fighting systems, martial arts are bodies of codified practices or traditions of training for unarmed and
armed combat, usually without the use of guns and other modern weapons
Mle hand-to-hand combat or mano-a-mano; weapons commonly used in mle include swords, clubs, spears, axes, or fists:
almost any tool with which one can hit someone else
Military vehicles are land combat or transportation vehicles, excluding rail-based, which are designed for or in significant use by
military forces
Armoured fighting vehicle
Armoured personnel carrier
Tank
Military aviation and military aircraft Military aviation includes any use of aircraft by a country's military, including such areas as
transport, training, disaster relief, border patrol, search and rescue, surveillance, surveying, peacekeeping, and (very rarely) aerial
warfare
Military communications the transmission medium that links military components on the battlefield
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Communications
Military engineer
Military robots autonomous or remote-controlled devices designed for military applications
Unmanned Ground Vehicles
Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles
Unmanned Undersea Vehicles
Military thought and planning military tactics, strategy, and doctrine
Military doctrine level of military planning between national strategy and unit-level
Military strategy collective name for planning the conduct of warfare
Military tactics collective name for methods of engaging and defeating an enemy in battle
Military unit an organization within an armed force. It may consist of any number of soldiers, ships, vehicles, or aircraft. Armies,
navies, and air forces, are organised hierarchically into groups of various sizes for functional, tactical and administrative purposes
Military rank
Comparative military ranks
Munitions often defined as a synonym for ammunition. A slightly broader definition would include bombs, missiles, warheads, and
mines
Bullet
Missile
Bomb
Mine
Landmine
Naval mine
Naval warfare combat in and on seas and oceans
Navy
Naval ship
Submarine
Small arms and firearms a firearm is a kinetic energy weapon that fires either a single or multiple projectiles propelled at high
velocity by the gases produced by action of the rapid confined burning of a propellant
Military by region [edit]
Military of Africa
Military of North America
Military of South America
Military of Asia
Militaries of Europe
Military of Oceania
List of countries by military expenditures
List of countries by number of active troops
List of countries by size of armed forces
List of countries without an army
History of military science and technology [edit]
Main article: Military history
By historical period [edit]
Prehistoric warfare
Ancient warfare
Medieval warfare
Gunpowder warfare
Industrial warfare
Total war
Irregular warfare
Modern warfare
By battlespace [edit]
See also: Battlespace
Air power history
History of aerial warfare
Army history
History of land warfare
History of information warfare
History of espionage
Nuclear espionage
Atomic spies
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History of surveillance
Naval history
History of naval warfare
History of space warfare
By terrain [edit]
See also: Theater (warfare)
History of arctic warfare
History of cyber-warfare
History of desert warfare
History of jungle warfare
History of mountain warfare
History of urban warfare
By weapon technology [edit]
Main article: Weapon#History
History of armoured warfare
History of artillery
History of biological warfare
History of cavalry
History of chemical warfare
History of electronic warfare
History of infantry
History of mechanized warfare
History of sea-based and land-based mine warfare
History of nuclear warfare
History of nuclear weapons
History of psychological warfare
History of radiological warfare
History of ski warfare
History of submarine warfare
History of military tactics [edit]
Main article: Military tactics#History
History of amphibious warfare
History of asymmetric warfare
History of attrition warfare
History of cavalry tactics
History of conventional warfare
History of fortification
History of guerrilla warfare
History of hand to hand combat
History of invasion
History of joint warfare
History of maneuver warfare
Siege warfare
Total warfare
Trench warfare
History of unconventional warfare
History of military strategy [edit]
Main article: Military strategy#Development of military strategy
History of economic warfare
History of grand strategy
History of operational warfare
General military science and technology concepts [edit]
Aircraft
Bomber
Fighter aircraft
Aircraft carrier
Air superiority
Basic training
Battlespace
Defense
Draft
Exchange officer
Maginot line
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Militaria
Military Aid to the Civil Power
Military Aid to the Civil Community
Military academy
Military courtesy
Military fiat
Military history
Military incompetence
Military logistics
Junta
Military organization
Military rule (disambiguation)
Military science
Military tactics
Military technology and equipment
Mutually assured destruction (MAD)
Napalm
Nuclear missile
SLBM
ICBM
MIRV
Tactical nuclear weapon
Radar
Recruiting
Sonar
Strategic Bombing
War crime (list)
Genocide
Mass murder
War rape
Influential military strategists [edit]
Following are examples from throughout history of prominently influential military strategists:
Cyrus the Great
Sun Tzu Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher during the Zhou dynasty's Spring and Autumn Period. He is
traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, an extremely influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy.
Sun Bin
Chanakya
Alexander the Great
Chandragupta Maurya
Hannibal
Qin Shi Huang
Julius Caesar
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
Zhuge Liang
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Genghis Khan
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
Frederick the Great
Napoleon Bonaparte
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Gebhard Leberecht von Blcher
Antoine-Henri Jomini
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Carl von Clausewitz German-Prussian soldier and military theorist who stressed the psychological and political aspects of war. His
ideas have been widely influential in military theory and have had a strong influence on German military thought specifically.
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
William Tecumseh Sherman
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Alfred von Schlieffen
Hans Delbrck
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Ferdinand Foch
Giulio Douhet
Billy Mitchell
J. F. C. Fuller
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Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
George Marshall
Dean Acheson
Military science and technology lists [edit]
List of countries by military expenditures
List of countries by number of active troops
List of countries by size of armed forces
List of countries without an army
List of air forces
List of navies
List of armies
List of battles
See also [edit]
Outline of war
External links [edit]
Collection of military handbooks etc.
Military equipment
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