The Encyclopedia of Military Science provides a comprehensive, ready-reference on the organization, traditions, training, purpose, and functions of todays military.

Table of Contents

• Editors
• Reader's Guide
• About the Editors
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Volume 1
• A
• Abu Ghraib
• Abuse, Family and Child
• Accommodations, Field
• Advertising, Military-Sponsored
• Aerial Refueling
• Afghanistan
• Afghanistan War
• Africa, Sub-Saharan
• African Americans
• Agent Orange
• Air Force, Department of
• Air Force, U.S.
• Air Force Command
• Air Force One
• Air Mobility Command
• Air National Guard
• Airborne Units
• Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) Aircraft
• Aircraft, Antisubmarine
• Aircraft, Attack
• Aircraft, Bomber
• Aircraft, Fighter
• Aircraft, Patrol
• Aircraft, Reconnaissance
• Aircraft, Transport
• Aircraft Carriers
• AirLand Battle Doctrine
• al Qaeda
• Alliances
• All-Volunteer Force
• Ambush
• American Battle Monuments Commission
• American Legion
• American Revolution
• Ammunition
• Amphibious Vehicles
• Anthrax
• Anthropology and War
• Antisubmarine Warfare
• Antiwar Movement
• ANZUS Security Treaty
• Appropriations, Military
• Arab Americans
• Archives, Military
• Arlington National Cemetery
• Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
• Armed Services Committee, House
• Armed Services Committee, Senate
• Armor, Body
• Armored Vehicles
• Arms, Small
• Army, Department of
• Army, U.S.
• Army Corps of Engineers
• Army Nurse Corps
• Army War College
• Army-Navy Game
• Art, Combat
• Artillery
• Asia
• Asian Americans
• Association of the United States Army
• Asymmetric Warfare
• Athletics
• Attachés, Military
• Attrition Warfare
• Australia
• Aviation, Army
• B
• Bands and Music
• Base Realignment and Closure
• Bases, Foreign
• Bases, U.S.
• Battleships
• Benefits, Military
• Benefits, Veteran
• Blackwater
• Blitzkrieg Warfare
• Boeing
• Bombs, Cluster
• Bombs, Gravity
• Bombs, Nuclear
• Bombs, Smart
• Border Patrol
• Bosnia Intervention
• Brazil
• Brigade
• Bush Doctrine
• C
• Canada
• Caribbean
• Cemeteries, Military
• Censorship
• Central America
• Central Asia
• Central Intelligence Agency
• Chaplains
• China, People's Republic of
• Citadel, The
• Civil Affairs
• Civil Defense
• Civil Disorder
• Civil War, American
• Civil-Military Relations
• Classification Security
• Clausewitz, Carl von
• Close Air Support
• Clothing
• Coalition, Warfare
• Coalition Provisional Authority
• Coast Guard, U.S.
• Code of Conduct
• Colombia
• Colonial Wars (1607–1774)
• Combat, Physical and Psychological Impact
• Combat Load
• Combat Power
• Combat Service Support
• Combined Arms
• Command and Control
• Command and General Staff College
• Commissioned Officers
• Communication
• Company
• Congress, U.S.
• Congressional Relations, Military
• Conscientious Objection
• Conscription
• Constitution, U.S.
• Constitutional Rights, Personnel
• Contractors, Private
• Counterinsurgency
• Counterintelligence
• Courage
• Court-Martial
• Covert Actions, Military
• Crimes, Military
• Crimes, War
• Cruisers, Naval
• Cuba
• Cultural Property and Heritage
• Culture, Military
• Customs and Traditions
• Cyberwar
• Volume 2
• D
• Decorations and Medals
• Defense, Department of
• Defense, Secretary of
• Defense Intelligence Agency
• Defense Language Institute
• Desertion
• Destroyers
• Deterrence
• Direct Fire
• Disability
• Discharge and Separation
• Diversity
• Division
• “Don't Ask, Don't Tell”
• Draft
• Drill and Ceremony
• Drug Interdiction
• E
• Economy and National Defense
• Effectiveness, Combat
• Egypt
• Engineers, Combat
• Environment
• Ethics
• Etiquette
• Europe
• F
• Family, Military
• Family Readiness
• Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Films
• Finance, Personal
• Fire, Direct and Indirect
• Fire, Friendly
• Food
• Force Reconnaissance, Marine
• Foreign Relations Committee, House
• Foreign Relations Committee, Senate
• France
• Frederick II of Prussia
• Friendly Fire
• Frigates
• G
• Gates, Robert
• Gays and Lesbians
• General Dynamics
• Geneva Conventions
• Genocide
• Germany
• Giap, Vo Nguyen
• Global Positioning System
• Global War on Terrorism
• Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act
• Green Berets
• Guantanamo Bay Prison
• Guerrilla Warfare
• Gulf War Syndrome
• Guns, Machine
• H
• Hague Conventions
• Haiti
• Haiti, U.S. Intervention in
• Halliburton
• Hamas
• Hanson, Victor Davis
• Hazing
• Helicopters
• Helmets
• History, Military: Approaches to
• History, Naval: Approaches to
• HIV/AIDS
• Homeland Security
• Homeland Security, Department of
• Human Rights
• Humanitarian Intervention, Foreign
• Huntington, Samuel
• Hurricane Katrina
• I
• India
• Indian Wars
• Indirect Fire
• Infantry
• Insurgency
• Intelligence, Geospatial
• Intelligence, Human
• Intelligence Cycle
• Intelligence Organizations, Military
• Intelligence Oversight, Congressional
• International Criminal Court
• Internet
• Interpreters and Translators
• Interrogation
• Iran
• Iran-Contra Scandal
• Iraq
• Iraq Insurgency (2003–2011)
• Iraq War (2003)
• Iraq War, Planning for
• Israel
• J
• Japan
• Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command
• Jomini, Antoine-Henri
• Journalists, Embedded
• Just War Tradition
• K
• Keegan, John
• Korea, North
• Korean War (1950–1953)
• Kosovo Intervention
• L
• Language, Military
• Latinos
• Laws of War
• Leadership
• Leaves and Furloughs
• Lebanon, U.S. Intervention in (1982)
• Levels of War
• Liberia
• Libya
• Liddell Hart, Basil
• Literature and War
• Lockheed Martin
• Logistics
• Luttwak, Edward N.
• M
• Mahan, Alfred Thayer
• Mao Zedong
• Marine Corps, U.S.
• Marine Corps League
• Marine Corps University
• Marine Guards, Embassy
• Marine One
• Marshall, S. L. A.
• Media Relations, Military
• Medical Disability, Veteran
• Medicine, Military
• Medicine, Veterans
• Mexican-American War
• Mexico
• Middle East Conflict
• Military Advisors, U.S.
• Military Command Staffs
• Military Courtesy
• Military Decision Making
• Military Journals and Newspapers
• Military Occupational Specialty
• Military Officers Association of America
• Military Organization, Air Force
• Military Organization, Army
• Military Organization, Marine Corps
• Military Organization, Navy
• Military Science
• Mines, Land
• Mines, Naval
• Missiles, Air-to-Air
• Missiles, Conventional
• Missiles, Cruise
• Missiles, Nuclear
• Mobilization
• Modular Army
• Morale
• Motion Pictures
• Motivation
• Museums, Military
• My Lai Massacre
• Volume 3
• N
• National Defense University
• National Guard, Army
• National Military Family Association
• National Security Act
• National Security Agency
• National Security Council
• Nation-Building
• Native Americans
• NATO
• Natural Disaster, Military Response to
• Naval Postgraduate School
• Naval War College
• Navigation, Aerial
• Navigation, Sea
• Navy, Department of
• Navy, U.S.
• Navy League
• Navy Nurse Corps
• Neoconservatives
• Nicaragua Intervention (1920s)
• 9/11 (2001)
• 9/11 Attack on Pentagon
• 9/11 Commission
• Noncommissioned Officer Academies
• Noncommissioned Officers
• North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• Northrop Grumman
• Norwich University
• Nuclear Proliferation
• Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
• O
• Oath of Enlistment
• Occupations
• Officer Candidate School
• Officer Career Fields
• OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act)
• Operations, Air
• Operations, Cold-Weather
• Operations, Jungle
• Operations, Mountain
• Operations Research
• Oral History
• Organization, Coast Guard
• Organization of American States
• Ottawa Land Mine Treaty
• P
• Pakistan
• Panama
• Panama, U.S. Intervention in
• Pay, Military
• Peace Movements
• Peacekeeping
• Pentomic Era
• Persian Gulf War
• Personnel Evaluation
• Petraeus, David
• Philippines
• Philippines Insurrection
• Photography, Combat
• Physical Fitness
• Piracy, High Seas
• Plans, Operational
• Plans, War
• Police, Military
• Political Science and International Relations
• Politics, Military Participation in
• Posse Comitatus Act
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Powell, Colin
• President as Commander in Chief
• Prisoners of War
• Prisons, Military
• Professionalism
• Propaganda
• Psychiatry, Military
• Psychological Warfare (PSYOP)
• Public Affairs, Military
• Public Opinion on War and the Military
• Q
• Quadrennial Defense Review
• R
• Radar
• RAND Corporation
• Rangers
• Rank
• Rape
• Rapid Deployment Force
• Raytheon
• Realism in International Relations
• Reconstruction
• Recreation
• Recruiting on College Campuses
• Recruitment, Enlisted
• Recruitment, Officer
• Red Cross, International Committee of
• Regiment
• Religion and War
• Research and Development
• Reserve, Air Force
• Reserve, Army
• Reserve, Marine Corps
• Reserve, Navy
• Retirement
• ROTC
• ROTC, Jr.
• Rules of Engagement
• Rumsfeld, Donald
• Russia
• Rwandan Genocide
• S
• Saudi Arabia
• Schelling, Thomas
• School of the Americas
• Science Applications International
• SEALs, Navy
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Shock and Awe Offensive
• Single Integrated Operational Plan
• Slang, Military
• Small Unit Cohesion
• Society for Military History
• Sociology
• Soft Power
• Somalia
• Somalia Intervention
• South America
• Space
• Spanish-American War (1898)
• Special Forces, Air Force
• Special Forces, Army
• Special Forces, Marine Corps
• Special Forces, Navy
• Special Operations, Strategy
• Sports
• Squad Leadership
• Staff Relationships
• Stars and Stripes (Newspaper)
• Stealth Technology
• Stop-Loss
• Strategic Air Command
• Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties
• Strategy, Air Power
• Strategy, Ground War
• Strategy, Naval
• Strategy, Nuclear
• Submarines
• Suicide
• Sun Tzu
• Support Groups for Military Spouses
• Surge, Iraq War
• Surgeon General, Air Force
• Surgeon General, Army
• Surgeon General, Navy
• Surrender
• Syria
• T
• Tactics, Air
• Tactics, Covert
• Tactics, Ground Forces
• Tactics, Naval
• Taiwan
• Tanks
• Targeting Systems
• Technology
• Television
• Terrorism
• Textron, Inc.
• Thucydides
• Time, Military
• Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal
• Torpedoes
• Torture
• Total War
• Training, Air Force Enlisted
• Training, Air Force Pilots
• Training, Army Enlisted
• Training, Army Officers
• Training, Coast Guard Enlisted
• Training, Coast Guard Officers
• Training, Marine Corps Enlisted
• Training, Marine Corps Officers
• Training, Multinational
• Training, Naval Aviators
• Training, Naval Enlisted
• Training, Naval Officers
• Transportation, Air
• Trauma, Military Sexual
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Treason
• TRICARE (Military Health Plan)
• Turkey
• U
• Uniform Code of Military Justice
• Uniforms
• United Kingdom
• United Nations
• United Technologies Corporation
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Upton, Emory
• Urban Guerrilla Movements
• U.S. Africa Command
• U.S. Air Force Academy
• U.S. Central Command
• U.S. Coast Guard Academy
• U.S. European Command
• U.S. Military Academy
• U.S. Naval Academy
• U.S. Naval Institute
• U.S. Northern Command
• U.S. Pacific Command
• U.S. Southern Command
• U.S. Special Operations Command
• U.S. State Department
• U.S. Strategic Command
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Transportation Command
• USA PATRIOT Act
• V
• Venezuela
• Veterans Affairs, Department of
• Veterans of Foreign Wars
• Vietnam War
• Virginia Military Institute
• Vo Nguyen Giap
• W
• War, Principles of
• War Dead, Disposition of
• War Films
• War in Afghanistan
• War of 1812
• War Powers Act
• Warfare, Amphibious
• Warfare, Biological
• Warfare, Electronic
• Warfare, Submarine
• Warfare, Surface
• Warfare, Unconventional
• Warrior Culture
• Weapons, Antiaircraft
• Weapons, Chemical
• Weapons, Nonlethal
• Weapons, Nuclear
• Weapons, Space
• Weinberger-Powell Doctrine
• Whistle-Blowing
• White House Military Office
• Women
• World War I
• World War II
• Wounds and Injuries
• Y
• Yamashita Precedent
• Appendix 1: Civil-Military Relations
• Appendix 2: Military Ideals
• Appendix 3: Laws of War: Major Treaties and Conventions
• Appendix 4: U.S. Supreme Court Cases
• Appendix 5: Military Organization
• Appendix 6: Military Casualties