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Industrial complex

Military–industrial complex, the term referring to a close and symbiotic relationship between a nation's armed forces, and its private industry.


2011 Helmand Province incident

The verdict (8 November 2013) and sentence (6 December 2013) were both delivered at the Military Court Centre in Bulford, Wiltshire.

Afshar Operation

According to a Human Rights Watch report, "credible and consistent" accounts from several officials who worked in Shura-e-Nazar (the informal politico-military organization headed by Rabbani's defense minister, Ahmad Shah Massoud) and the Rabbani interim government reveal that a military campaign against Hizb-i Wahdat was planned and approved by officials at the "highest levels" of the Rabbani government.

Alex Ibru

Embarrassingly for the military regime, during the trip a large crowd demonstrated in Bori blaming Shell Oil pollution for their problems.

Battle of Muret

Laurence Marvin, "The Occitan War: A Military and Political History of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218", Berry College: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 175-195.

Battle of Zinjibar

Later during the day, militants attacked a stadium near Zinjibar, from where the military was conducting attacks against militant positions.

Bermuda Volunteer/Territorial Army Units 1895–1965

What was painfully clear to the citizenry of those Isles, when (following an assassination attempt on Emperor Napoleon III)there was a threat of invasion by the much larger French Army in 1858, was that Britain's military defences had already been stretched invitingly thin, even without sending a third of the Army to another Crimea.

Brian Zins

After completing the Recruit training program at Paris Island, South Carolina, Zins attended the Military Police School at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.

Bubble car

Most bubble cars were manufactered in Germany, including by the former German military aircraft manufacturers, Messerschmitt and Heinkel.

China Lake Grenade Launcher

In June 2007, a taping of an episode of the popular military technology program, Weaponology was filmed which announced that Trident had been approached by a U.S. company seeking to license their intellectual property in exchange for a royalty on each weapon produced.

Dark Void Zero

Until finally, the military sent in experts: A soldier named Rusty, who was actually born in the Void, and Nikola Tesla.

Dole Air Race

On 28 June, about a month after Dole posted the prizes, Air Corps Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger flew a three-engine Atlantic-Fokker C-2 military aircraft from Oakland Municipal Airport to Wheeler Army Airfield on Oahu in 25 hours and 50 minutes.

Du Yuanying

While later serving as the military governor (Jiedushi) of Xichuan Circuit (西川, headquartered in modern Chengdu), he was further blamed for failure of discipline that caused his soldiers to provoke a major Nanzhao invasion against Xichuan, leading to his exile.

Fighting for Freedom

Fighting for Freedom: The Ukrainian volunteer Division of the Waffen-SS is a book by Richard Landwehr on the 14th Waffen-Grenadier Division of the SS (the first Ukrainian division).

Fijian presidential election, 2000

A Presidential election took place in Fiji on 18 July 2000, to replace Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, who had resigned, possibly under pressure from the Military, during the Fiji coup of 2000.

Fred Newton

Frederick Newton (1951–1986), Dominican military commander executed for an attempted coup

Geimos

The game is set in the year 2135 AD on a military base that was created in one of the moons that make up the Solar System.

Governor of Gravesend and Tilbury

The fortifications here date from the time of Henry VIII; Tilbury Fort remained in military use until 1950, but the office of Governor was discontinued upon the death of Sir Lowry Cole in 1842.

Harold Bedoya Pizarro

In 1991 Bedoya was given the position of Director of the Superior Military School in Bogotá, Cundinamarca.

Joanna Żubr

For her bravery, Prince Józef Poniatowski awarded her the medal of Virtuti Militari; Joanna was the first female soldier to be awarded the decoration and one of the first women in the world to receive a military award for bravery in battle.

John Everingham

During the Vietnam War he received acclaim from the mainstream media, and disdain from the American military, for his reporting on the effects of B-52 dumping runs on their way back to bases in Udon Thani, Thailand — when bombers didn't drop all their payload over Hanoi, they dumped their bombs in Laos to cut the risk of accidents on landing, which led to innocent rural Lao and Hmong being killed.

Joseph Lovell

During the 1820s, Lovell was a member of the prestigious society, Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, who counted among their members former presidents Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams and many prominent men of the day, including well-known representatives of the military, government service, medical and other professions.

Kouprasith Abhay

General Kouprasith Abhay, also known by his nickname 'Fat K', was a Laotian military and political figure from the Vietnam War, also designated the Second Indochina War.

Kratos

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, an American company specializing in military and information technology services

Loretta A. Preska

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani - On June 9, 2009, Judge Preska heard the plea of the first detainee brought from Guantanamo Bay Military Prison to stand trial in a U.S. civilian court.

Manuel Freire de Andrade

Manuel Alberto Freire de Andrade y Armijo (4 November 1767 – 7 March 1835) was a Spanish cavalry officer and general officer during the Peninsular War, and later Defense Minister.

Mendocino Indian Reservation

In the summer of 1857, First Lieutenant Horatio G. Gibson, then serving at the Presidio of San Francisco, was ordered to take Company M, 3rd Regiment of Artillery to establish a military post one and one-half miles north of the Noyo River on the Mendocino Indian Reservation.

Metal Marines

He was educated in public schools and attended the General H. Norman Schwarzkopf Academy of Military Sciences.

Military Professional Resources Inc.

General William F. Kernan of the U.S. Army also joined the firm after his military service.

Mivtsa Yonatan

Operation Entebbe, also known as Operation Yonatan, a military operation

Mount Pleasant Airport

RAF Mount Pleasant, a military base for the Royal Air Force in the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands (IATA: MPN)

Nara Narayan

After a series of battles with varying fortunes, the Koch army was defeated by the Ahoms, then under Suklenmung (1539–1552) who personally led the military, at the Battle of Pichala in 1547.

October 22nd Scud missile attack

This fear was raised by military intelligence chief Eli Zeira at a situation assessment with the Chief of Staff on October 9.

Otto Ruge

Partially in contrast to what Terje Holm as well as Torkel Hovland claim, military historian Tom Kristensen emphasizes that even though Otto Ruge participated in the downsizing of the Norwegian Army during the early 1930s, he also warned against the renewed threat after 1935 and pointed to the weakness of the Norwegian mobilization system.

Rafael

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, the Israeli authority for development of weapons and military technology

Roderick Stephens

He received the Medal of Freedom, the United States's highest civilian award, for his contributions during World War II in his design and engineering of the DUKW ("duck") military amphibious vehicle.

San Germán, Puerto Rico

He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, second only to the Medal of Honor, by General George S. Patton, thus becoming the first Puerto Rican recipient of said military decoration.

Senior captain

The rank of senior captain is rare in Western militaries, but can be found in the German military, where the rank of Stabshauptmann (Stabskapitänleutnant in the Navy) was created in 1993 for officers of the Militärfachlicher Dienst (former NCOs in specialist positions) who could not be promoted to field grade.

Shōtarō Yasuoka

Yasuoka was born in pre-war Japan in Kōchi, Kōchi, but as the son of a veterinary corpsman in the Imperial Army, he spent most of his youth moving from one military post to another.

Sigma Nu

Sigma Nu (ΣΝ) is an undergraduate college fraternity that was founded by James Frank Hopkins, Greenfield Quarles and James McIlvaine Riley at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia shortly after Hopkins witnessed what he considered a hazing ritual by upperclassmen at the Virginia Military Institute.

Špiro Mugoša Airport

It once served as city's only airport, mainly for military use, and withstood heavy bombing during Bombing of Podgorica in World War II.

Surrender of General Toral

Surrender of General Toral is an 1898 film which featured appearances by military leaders Joseph Wheeler and William Rufus Shafter.

Tajikistan insurgency

The incident occurred, when a vehicle was stopped at a military checkpoint on the road between Garm and Dushanbe.

The Detached Mission

The CIA officers appoints U.S. Army Major Jack Hessalt as a commanding officer of missile launch command post inside a secret U.S. military base in the Pacific Ocean.

Thomas H. Seymour

Born in Hartford, Connecticut to Major Henry Seymour and Jane Ellery, Seymour was sent to public schools as a child and graduated from Middletown Military Academy in Middletown, Connecticut in 1829.

Toluca Valley

There was some repression of rebellions under later emperor Ahuitzotl but there was no major military activity in the valley again until the Spanish conquest .

Treaty of Nice

The Irish government, having obtained the Seville Declaration on Ireland's policy of military neutrality from the European Council, decided to have another referendum on the Treaty of Nice on Saturday, 19 October 2002.

UC-92

Funk B, an airplane with a United States military designation of "UC-92"

Vejaynand Ramlakan

A medical doctor, he served in Umkhonto weSizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress, during the liberation struggle against the South African government in the 1980s, and transferred to the South African National Defence Force when MK was incorporated into it in 1994.

Verbrennungskommando Warschau

Stalina avenue, 2,180 kilograms from military prison at Zamenhofa, 1,029 kilograms from Wolska 60 Street, 1,120 kilograms from Sowinski Park, 600 kilograms from Dzielna 47 Street, 600 kilograms from Franaszek Factory, 192 kilograms from Okopowa 59 Street, and 120 kilograms from "Dobrolin" Wolska Street among several other locations.

William Brereton, 2nd Baron Brereton

He held no military commission during the Civil War but was an active Commissioner of Array and garrisoned Brereton.


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