Military in combat

The primary reason for the existence of the military is to engage in combat, or “fighting,” a purposeful violent conflict meant to weaken, or establish dominance over the opposition, or to kill the opposition, or drive the opposition away from a location where it is not wanted or needed, should it be required to so by the national defence policy, and to win. This represents an organizational goal of any military, and the primary focus for military thought through military history, a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships.  

The “show” of military force has been a term that referred as much to military force projection, as to the units such as regiments (a title used by some military units) or gunboats, watercrafts designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies, deployed--the movement of armed forces and their logical support infrastructure around the world--in a particular theatre, part an aggregate of such forces.

In the Persian Gulf War, codenamed “Operation Desert Storm” commonly referred to as simply the “Gulf War,” a war waged by a UN-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion and annexation of Kuwait, the United States Central Command (“USCENTCOM”), a theater-level Unified Combatant Command of the US Department of Defense, established in 1983, controlled “military forces” (units) of each of the four military services of the United States. How victory (a term, originally applied to warfare, given to success achieved in personal combat, after military operations in general or, by extension, in any competition) is achieved, and what shape it assumes is studied by most, if not all, military groups on three levels.

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