Military

Basic Information

A military represents the authorized armed forces of a nation that can react to real or perceived outside threats, such as wars.

For a list of Bases, Bunkers, and Facilities, see Military Holdings.

Military Organizations

• Royal Navy
• National Guard

Paramilitary Organizations

• Los Zetas
• Private Military Company

Military Units, Specializations, and Designations

• Cavalry
• Flagship
• Human Terrain Team
• Infantry
• Soldier
• List of Noteworthy Historical Military Units

Military Technology

• Armour
• Military Weaponry (See Also Weapons)
  • Agent Orange
  • Destrier
  • Fighting With Photons
  • Weapons of Mass Destruction
    • Atomic Bomb
    • Soviet/Russian Nuclear Weapons
• Military Vehicles (See Also Vehicles)
  • Armoured Fighting Vehicle
  • Armoured Personnel Carrier
  • DUKW
  • Flagship
  • Tachanka
  • Tank
  • Warship
    • Auxiliary Cruiser
    • Cruiser
    • Destroyer
    • Frigate
    • Ship of the Line
• Fortification
• Misc Military Tech (See Also Technology)
  • Project ELF
  • Travolta’s pilot assistant almost ready to go

Wars

For a list of historic wars, and a categorization of types of war, see War

Military News and Events

• Christian Soldiers
• Dreadnought Hoax
• Raiding The Icebox
• The Road To Area 51
• Sensitive Guantánamo Bay Manual Leaked Through Wiki Site
• Somalia's pirate problem grows more rampant
• U.S. Jet Shoots Down Iranian Drone Over Iraq
• Why the Egyptian Army didnt shoot

Historical Officers

• Robin Stephens
• Gilles de Rais
• Peter Francisco
• Pancho Villa
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
• von Ungern Sternberg
• James Wilkinson

See Also

• Military And Warfare Tropes
• List of Noteworthy Historical Military Units

Sources

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia entry

Game and Story Use

• If the player characters are members of the military, then it gives the game master an easy way to structure the campaign forward - the player characters go on adventures because their superiors tell them so.
  • Some players might resent the lack of freedom in such campaigns, however - and often blatantly violate or ignore orders in ways that would get them a court-martial in real life.
• Conversely, maybe the military represents the enemy in a campaign. While actual quality of the enemy forces might vary - from elite special forces to trigger-happy dumb grunts who can barely read, in general the military tends to be better armed and more numerous than the player characters, forcing them to outwit their enemies.
  • Of course, if the PCs are members of an army as well, their equipment might be just as good if not better. But outwitting their enemies is probably still a good idea, given the lethality of most military weapon systems…