Military Campaign

CAMPAIGN VARIATIONS

Military campaigns are usually a connected series of Battle s (or instances of Combat in warfare between Two Or More Parties wherein each group seeks to defeat the others) and the Maneuver s that is conducted by a Military Force ( Regular or Irregular ) seeking victory in a War . Military campaigns are more often undertaken by permanent, professional force of soldiers or guerrillas—trained units as distinguished from the operation by militia or other temporary forces. A military campaign can be, more loosely though, any designated military operation in a geographical theater.

Military campaigns are guided by Strategy , taking account of various actions undertaken in Arctic Warfare , Ski Warfare , Desert Warfare , Jungle Warfare , Naval Warfare , Sub-aquatic Warfare , Mountain Warfare , Urban Warfare , Air Warfare , and Space Warfare . As air power has become an increasingly powerful element of military campaigns, Air Superiority is increasingly focus on by military planners. The Order Of Battle is a tool used by military planners to list and analyze enemy military units.

A military campaign, technically, is a series of related individual military operations. A military campaign here is used predominantly to refer to what one side does, and is useful for distinguishing between "the war" as a whole, and "the parties" to the war. The end of a military campaign predominantly results in one of the belligerent entities being successful in the struggle against an Opponent entity (such as the removal of a regime, occupation of territory, and/or the end of hostilities). In a conventional war, the end of a military campaign sometimes lead to smaller armed conflicts (often called riots, rebellions, insurgencies, coups, etc.).

It can alternatively connote a connected series of military operations forming a distinct phase of a war. A military campaign here is series of battles linked by a defined time, action, and geography within a larger timeline or framework (i.e., the North Africa Campaign of World War II ). In this sense, it is merely part of a larger war and thus makes no distinction between the parties to that war.

EVALUATIONS

A military campaign is judged successful if the desired state of affairs were brought about through combat and noncombat operations. This is usually determined when one of the belligerent entities defeats the opposing entity. The manner in which a force terminates it's operations, though, influences the perception of the campaign's success. The end of a campaign is mostly followed by the transition of military authority to a civil authority and the redeployment of forces.

Ongoing military campaigns, inside and outside of individual wars, are sometimes Metaphor ically characterized as '' Quagmire s'', because of various factors (such as a small hope of victory, poorly-defined objectives and/or no clear exit strategy). It is usually used Pejorative ly to describe, in the user's opinion, ill-fated operations. Its use in political debates emerged during the Vietnam War . Activist s, Commentator s, and Pundits that use the term may choose it specifically to allude to the Vietnam conflict.

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