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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.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to military science:

Essence of military science and technology

Branches of military science

• Military organization
• Military education and training
• Military history
• Military geography
• Military technology and equipment
• Military strategy and doctrine
  • Western military doctrine
  • Soviet military doctrine
  • Chinese military doctrine

Types of military technology

• 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 defence 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.
• Mêlée - hand-to-hand combat or mano-a-mano. Weapons commonly used in mêlée 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.
  • 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

Military of North America Sovereign states Antigua and Barbuda · Bahamas · Barbados · Belize · Canada · Costa Rica · Cuba · Dominica · Dominican Republic · El Salvador · Grenada · Guatemala · Haiti · Honduras · Jamaica · Mexico · Nicaragua · Panama1  · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Trinidad and Tobago1 · United States Dependencies and other territories Anguilla · Aruba1  · Bermuda · British Virgin Islands · Cayman Islands · Greenland · Guadeloupe · Martinique · Montserrat · Navassa Island · Netherlands Antilles1 · Puerto Rico · Saint Barthélemy · Saint Martin · Saint Pierre and Miquelon · Turks and Caicos Islands · United States Virgin Islands 1 Territories also in or commonly considered to be part of South America.

Military of South America Sovereign states Argentina · Bolivia · Brazil · Chile · Colombia · Ecuador · Guyana · Panama1  · Paraguay · Peru · Suriname · Trinidad and Tobago1 · Uruguay · Venezuela Dependencies Aruba1 / Netherlands Antilles1 (Netherlands) · Falkland Islands / South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (UK) 2 · French Guiana (France) 1 Territories also in or commonly considered to be part of North America and/or Central America.  2 Territories also in or commonly considered to be part of Antarctica.

• 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

• Prehistoric warfare
• Ancient warfare
• Medieval warfare
• Gunpowder warfare
• Industrial warfare
• Modern warfare

By battlespace

• Aerial warfare
• Information warfare
• Land warfare
• Naval warfare
• Space warfare

By terrain

• Arctic warfare
• Cyber-warfare
• Desert warfare
• Jungle warfare
• Mountain warfare
• Urban warfare

By weapon technology

• Armoured warfare
• Artillery
• Biological warfare
• Cavalry
• Chemical warfare
• Electronic warfare
• Infantry
• Mechanized warfare
• Nuclear warfare
  • History of nuclear weapons
• Psychological warfare
• Radiological warfare
• Ski warfare
• Submarine warfare

History of military tactics

• Amphibious warfare
• Asymmetric warfare
• Attrition warfare
• Cavalry tactics
• Conventional warfare
• Fortification
• Guerrilla warfare
• Hand to hand combat
• Invasion
• Joint warfare
• Maneuver warfare
• Siege warfare
• Total warfare
• Trench warfare
• Unconventional warfare

History of military strategy

• Economic
• Grand
• Operational

General military science and technology concepts

• Aircraft
  • Bomber
  • Fighter aircraft
• Aircraft carrier
• Air superiority
• Basic training
• Battlespace
• Defense
• Draft
• Exchange officer
• Maginot line
• 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
• 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

Military science and technology scholars

• Carl von Clausewitz, author of On War.
• Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War.

Great military strategists

• Alexander the Great
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
• Heinz Guderian
• Erwin Rommel

Military science and technology lists

• 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

War portal

External links

• Collection of military handbooks etc.
• Military equipment