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Army Defined
An army is a land based armed force under regular military organization, as distinguished from the horde, or armed mass of all able-bodied men in a tribe. The earliest known professional army was that of Egypt, followed by those of Assyria and Persia. Military service became obligatory for citizens of Greece. The Roman army evolved from a citizen soldiery into a professional standing army increasingly composed of barbarian mercenaries. In the Middle Ages, the armed knight and yeoman owed a set number of days of military service each year to a great lord; but with the decline of feudalism and the advent of firearms, this system also gave way to the service of mercenaries. In the 1t7 h century. Louis XIV of France organized a national standing army that set the pattern for all of Europe: a highly disciplined, professional body set apart from civilian life. The concept reached a harsh perfection under Frederick II of Prussia. It was the introduction of conscription during the French Revolutionary Wars that set in motion the development of modern mass armies built around a professional nucleus and organized into specialized units for combat and support. Although conscription was used in the U.S. Civil War and WW I, the U.S., until 1940, traditionally relied in emergencies on its citizen militia, the National Guard, and on voluntary enlistment in the armed forces; the peacetime draft was again lifted in 1973. The term army generally applies to all armed land forces of a nation (e.g., the French army); it can also designate a self-contained fighting force in a given area (e.g., the Army of the Potomac in the U.S. Civil War) or a unit of 100,000 men composed of two or more corps. A corps in turn is composed of two or more divisions (usually about 15,000 men). Traditionally, an army was made up of major Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery commands, but these gave way to more complex forms of organization. Today, each division typically includes infantry, airborne, mechanized, and other specialized battalions or brigades.
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- Army Leadership: Field Manual for Army Leadership FM 6-22
- Fallen Soldier's Memoriam Rockets Up Twitter 'Charts' - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News - FOXNews.com: Fallen Soldier's Memoriam Rockets Up Twitter 'Charts&# 039;, Father's request to honor soldier stepson gets phrase '#thankyo uaaron' high on Twitter Trending Topics.
- Army Management Staff College: Army Civilian Education
- How the Army Runs - A Senior Leader Reference Handbook, 2007-2008 ...: United States Army War College Senior Leader Reference Handbook
- The United States Army Homepage: Army information
- Automated Systems Approach to Training: ASAT is a training information management system that provides the capability of task creation and task management of training products. It also has the capability of producing training products in a report format (RTF).
- ATIA Distributed Learning: United States Army Training Support Center contain Distributed Learning courses.
- Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.07.07: Michael M. Sage, The Republican Roman Army: A Sourcebook. New York: Routledge, 2008 In recent years scholarship on Roman republican warfare has increasingly worked to correct a long-standing bias towards the late Republic and to present a chronologicall y balanced view of this important subject. Michael Sage's The Republican Roman army is part of this trend. S. presents a range of sources covering the entirety of Roman warfare during the Republic, beginning in the 6th century BC with Rome's late regal period and continuing down through the civil wars of the first century BC. Although S.'s selection of sources is by no means comprehensive, he has brought together a number of important passages, and touch on many key points, all in an approachable manner. Coupled with very extensive commentary, this work is an important addition to this burgeoning field, the first major sourcebook on the topic and a useful snapshot of scholarly opinion on various issues within the subject.
- US Army Armor School Research Library: The Armor School Research Library is open to the entire Fort Knox Community and the general public for individuals interested in serious research -- some restrictions apply.
- Army Knowledge Online (AKO): Army information available and ways to look up people
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