Militär term nattläger

This is a list of established military terms which have been in use for at least 50 years. Since technology and doctrine have changed over time, not all of them are in current use, or they may have been superseded by more modern terms. However, they are still in current use in articles about previous military periods. Some of them like camouflet have been adapted to describe modern versions of old techniques.

Administrative (all arms)

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Intelligence

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Doctrinal

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On land

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• Demilitarized zone (DMZ): Area that is specifically established to be free from military presence or action. Often used to create a buffer between two conflicting states to prevent accidental border skirmishes and established by treaty or a third party peace keeper.
• No man's land: land that is not occupied or, more specifically, land that is under dispute between countries or areas that will not occupy it because of fear or uncertainty, or for tactical or strategical considerations. No man's land was what the Allied Expeditionary Force under the command of General Pershing would refer to the land separating the fronts of the two opposing
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40 military terms and their meanings

According to November data from the U.S. Department of Defense, there are just over 2 million active-duty and selected reserve members of the military in America today. Add that to the more than 18 million veterans living in the country and it becomes clear that there is a substantial portion of Americans who speak a language all their own: military, some of which you may be familiar with.

"Alfa, Bravo, Charlie …" is an alphabet you may already know and understand. These words represent the letters A, B, and C in the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, more commonly known as the NATO phonetic alphabet. It was standardized in with sounds that are similar in English, French, and Spanish, and the military still uses it today to omit misunderstandings over the radio. If you aren't using it already, this would be a good one to adopt for those customer service calls where you need to read your digit confirmation code that somehow is made up of letters that all sound the same.

Or how about when someone says, "Meet me here at ?" The military time system, which uses the hour clock, is

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Swedish/English Dictionary, Military terms

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Adelsfanan

Cavalry Corps of the Nobility

Adjutant (mil.)

Adjutant, a military position, normally held bygd an [commissioned] officer.
Adjutant is an officer assisting a higher ranked officer. This position was introduced in the beginning of the 's and was then manned by non-commissioned officers, NCOs. The brev as an adjutant got an officer's rank in but then with a salary of a NCO.
For example, a Lieutenant could be an adjutant to a Colonel.

Ammunition

Ammunition

Amiral

Admiral

Anfall

Charge - attack, assault

Anfalla

Engage

Arklimästare, artilleriet

An arklimästare in the artillery was in charge of an artillery depot, i.e. the artillery pieces and ammunition. The word “arkli” actually means arms depot. Today the begrepp tygförråd fryst vatten used instead of arkli.
There were also a national arklimästare in charge of all the arms depots. His title was Överstearklimästare (Colonel arklimästare). Later his title became Rikstygmästare.

Arklimästare, flottan

A navy arklimästare was a NCO working with the sea artillery o