military science

The principles of military conflict and of warfare.

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mil′itary sci′ence

a course of study dealing with the logistic, tactical, and other principles of warfare.

[1820–30]

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military science - the discipline dealing with the principles of warfare

discipline, field of study, subject area, subject field, bailiwick, subject, field, study - a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"

tactics - the branch of military science dealing with detailed maneuvers to achieve objectives set by strategy

strategy - the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war

armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"

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He had commanded the troops before Washington's arrival Another was General Charles Lee, who had been a colonel in the English army, and was thought to possess vast military science. He came to the council, followed by two or three dogs which were always at his heels.

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As this corps was composed of volunteers, and was commanded by a man who had passed the first five-and-thirty years of his life in camps and garrisons, it was the non-parallel of military science in that country, and was confidently pronounced by the judicious part of the Templeton community, to be equal in skill and appearance to any troops in the known world; in physical endowments they were, certainly, much superior!

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It was Budge's book on Egyptian hieroglyphics, with colored plates of strange birds and gods, and even as he rushed past, he was conscious of something odd about the fact that this, and not any work of military science, should be open in that place at that moment.

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I am fond of military science. And I'm ever so fond of reading all military histories.

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"One of the biggest and most important accomplishments of the Iranian Army's Command and General Staff College (DAFOS AJA) is the indigenous military and tactical science in Iran," Commander of the Islamic Republic's university of military science Brigadier General Hossein Valivand said on Saturday.

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A Fighting Chance provides a fine novel of the Legion of the Damned and is a pick for any serious military science fiction collection.

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Manama Bahrain is mulling the establishment of a war college that specialises in advanced military science.

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