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    A penal military unit, also known as a penal formation, disciplinary unit, or just penal unit (usually named for their formation and size, such as penal...
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  • Ukraine, Russia has recruited substantial numbers of prisoners into military units. The Russian paramilitary Wagner Group widely recruited from prisons...
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    Formal military organization tends to use hierarchical forms (see Modern hierarchy for terminology and approximate troop strength per hierarchical unit). In...
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  • security risk by the military or national authorities, and members of the military found guilty of a serious crime. There are two types: penal and confinement-oriented...
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    Storm-Z (category Penal military units)
    Storm-Z (Russian: Шторм-Z, romanized: Shtorm-Z) is a series of penal military units established by Russia by April 6, 2023, at the latest. On June 24,...
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    Strafbataillon (category Penal military units)
    Strafbataillon (English: "penal battalion") is the generic term for penal units that were created from prisoners during the Second World War in all branches...
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    Storm-V (category Penal military units)
    Storm-V (Russian: Шторм-V, romanized: Shtorm-V) is a series of penal military units established by a law which was signed by Russian President Vladimir...
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  • Shtrafbat (category Penal military units)
    penal battalions (known as Strafbataillon) as a means to ensure obedience among regular Wehrmacht units. Pursuant to Order No. 227, the first penal battalions...
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  • Shkval Battalion (category Penal military units)
    convicts into the Ukrainian Army. Like other Russian and Ukrainian penal military units, members of the battalion are recruited from prisons on the premise...
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    Large-scale implementations of penal labour include labour camps, prison farms, penal colonies, penal military units, penal transportation, or aboard prison...
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    Without standard military unit organization, various more general names are often used; such organizations may be called a troop, group, unit, column, band...
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    Conscription (redirect from Military draft)
    Russian invasion of Ukraine revealed Russian irregular units in Ukraine and Russian penal military units as sources of manpower. This adds to the BARS (Russia)...
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  • In warfare, a theater or theatre is an area in which important military events occur or are in progress. A theater can include the entirety of the airspace...
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    Surrender, in military terms, is the relinquishment of control over territory, combatants, fortifications, ships or armament to another power. A surrender...
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    999th Light Afrika Division (category Penal military units)
    Afrika-Brigade), formed several months earlier, as a penal military unit. While all members of Nazi punishment units were labeled "criminals", a significant proportion...
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    Military branch (also service branch or armed service) is according to common standard a subdivision of the national armed forces of a sovereign nation...
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    tactic in modern warfare where one small military unit, vehicle, or aircraft supports another friendly unit while the latter executes fire and movement...
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    and support deployed combat units. (See Battlefield medicine.) The administration and practice of health care for military service members and their dependents...
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  • Expeditionary warfare is a military invasion of a foreign territory, especially away from established bases. Expeditionary forces were in part the antecedent...
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    A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. Militaries are typically...
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  • This article contains a list of military tactics. The meaning of the phrase is context sensitive, and has varied over time, like the difference between...
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  • persons under military jurisdiction are under the usual civilian criminal law. The military criminal law, the 45th Chapter of the penal code, encompasses...
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  • The Dirty Dozen (category Films based on military novels)
    Webber. Set in 1944 during World War II, the film follows the titular penal military unit of twelve convicts as they are trained as commandos by the Allies...
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  • Alexander became most famous (in a military sense), grew more varied. There were heavy cavalry and wing cavalry (ilè) units, the latter commanded by an ilarchos...
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  • Barrier troops (redirect from Blocking unit)
    set up penal battalions, anti-retreat detachments were used to prevent withdrawal or desertion by penal units as well. Penal military unit personnel...
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  • An offensive is a military operation that seeks through an aggressive projection of armed forces to occupy or recapture territory, gain an objective or...
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  • ultimately the mission that a unit performs that determines the level of war within which it operates. — David M. Glantz, Soviet Military Operational Art The operational...
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  • Attrition warfare is a military strategy consisting of belligerent attempts to win a war by wearing down the enemy to the point of collapse through continuous...
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    Military robots are autonomous robots or remote-controlled mobile robots designed for military applications, from transport to search & rescue and attack...
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  • story runs parallel to the first game and follows the "Nameless", a penal military unit serving the nation of Gallia during the Second Europan War that performs...
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