army ant driver ant legionary ant | tropical nomadic ant that preys mainly on other insects |
army cutworm Chorizagrotis auxiliaris | larvae (of a noctuid moth) that travel in large groups and destroy grains and alfalfa in the midwestern states |
armyworm army worm Pseudaletia unipuncta | noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain |
army base | a large base of operations for an army |
Army High Performance Computing Research Center AHPCRC | a United States defense laboratory to conduct research in high-performance computing for defense technology applications, a partnership of government and university and industry |
hut army hut field hut | temporary military shelter |
tank army tank armored combat vehicle armoured combat vehicle | an enclosed armored military vehicle, has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads |
United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory US Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory USACIL | a defense laboratory of the Criminal Investigation Command, the United States Army's primary forensic laboratory in support of criminal intelligence |
network army | a group of like-minded people united by the internet, a new kind of social or political of business group that may exert broad influence on a shared concern, a network army of software programmers contribute free software to those who want it |
Alex Boncayao Brigade ABB Revolutionary Proletarian Army RPA-ABB | an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines, formed in the s |
Armata Corsa Corsican Army | a terrorist organization founded in to oppose the link between nationalists and the Corsican mafia, the attacks of Armata Corsa are aimed at symbolic targets of colonialism in Corsica |
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia ASALA Orly Group rd October Organization | a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in , wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia, ASALA bombing at Orly Airport in Paris in killed and wounded people |
Army for the Liberation of Rwanda ALIR Former Armed Forces FAR Interahamwe | a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again, in ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists |
Continuity Irish Republican Army CIRA Continuity Army Council | a terrorist organization formed in Ireland in as a clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein |
Irish National Liberation Army INLA People's Liberation Army People's Republican Army Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
Irish Republican Army IRA Provisional Irish Republican Army Provisional IRA Provos | a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland |
Islamic Army of Aden IAA Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan Aden-Abyan Islamic Army | Yemen-based terrorist group that supports al-Qaeda's goals, seeks to overthrow the Yemeni government and eliminate United States interests, responsible for bombings and kidnappings and killing western tourists in Yemen |
Jaish-i-Mohammed Jaish-e-Muhammad JEM Army of Muhammad | a terrorist organization founded in , a militant Islamic group active in Kashmir and closely aligned with al-Rashid Trust, seeks to secure release of imprisoned fellow militants by kidnappings |
Japanese Red Army JRA Anti-Imperialist International Brigade | a terrorist group organized into overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution, is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists, in the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Israel |
Lashkar-e-Taiba Lashkar-e-Toiba Lashkar-e-Tayyiba LET Army of the Pure Army of the Righteous | a brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir, fights against India with the goal of restoring Islamic rule of India, Lashkar-e-Toiba has committed mass murders of civilian Hindus |
Lord's Resistance Army | a quasieligious rebel group in Uganda that terrorized and raped women and kidnapped children who were forced to serve in the army |
National Liberation Army ELN Nestor Paz Zamora Commission CNPZ | a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups, a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the s |
National Liberation Army ELN | a Marxist terrorist group formed in by Colombian intellectuals who were inspired by the Cuban Revolution, responsible for a campaign of mass kidnappings and resistance to the government's efforts to stop the drug trade, ELN kidnappers target foreign employees of large corporations |
New People's Army NPA | a terrorist organization that is the militant wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, a Maoist organization formed to overthrow the government, uses hit squads called Sparrow Units, opposes United States military presence in the Philippines |
Real IRA Real Irish Republican Army RIRA Dissident Irish Republican Army | a radical terrorist group that broke away in when the mainstream Provisional IRA proposed a cease-fire, has continued terrorist activities in opposition to any peace agreement |
Red Army Faction RAF | a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany, a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle, a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang, became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups, disbanded in |
Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army EGTK | a terrorist group that is the remnants of the original Bolivian insurgents trained by Che Guevara, attacks small unprotected targets such as power pylons or oil pipelines or government buildings |
Salvation Army | a charitable and religious organization to evangelize and to care for the poor and homeless |
army | a large number of people united for some specific purpose |
army unit | a military unit that is part of an army |
army regular army ground forces | a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state |
corps army corps | an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support |
Women's Army Corps WAC | an army corps that was organized in World War II but is no longer a separate branch of the United States Army |
Special Forces U. S. Army Special Forces United States Army Special Forces | a division of the United States Army that is specially trained for guerilla fighting |
Territorial Army | British unit of nonprofessional soldiers organized for the defense of Great Britain |
standing army | a permanent army of paid soldiers |
Union Army | the northern army during the American Civil War |
Confederate Army Army of the Confederacy | the southern army during the American Civil War |
Continental Army | the American army during the American Revolution |
United States Army US Army U. S. Army Army USA | the army of the United States of America, the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare |
United States Army Rangers | a specially trained elite unit of the United States Army |
Army Intelligence AI | an agency of the United States Army responsible for providing timely and relevant and accurate and synchronized intelligence to tactical and operational and strategic level commanders |
Army National Guard ARNG | a civilian reserve component of the United States Army comprised of guardsmen who serve during overseas peacekeeping missions and during local emergencies |
army attache | a military attache who is a commissioned or warrant officer in an army |
army brat | the child of a career officer of the United States Army |
army engineer military engineer | a member of the military who is trained in engineering and construction work |
army officer | an officer in the armed forces, he's a retired army officer |