ecoterrorism
ecological terrorism
eco-warfare
ecological warfare | violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists |
psychological warfare
war of nerves | the use of psychological tactics to destroy the opponents' morale |
electronic warfare
EW | military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum |
class struggle
class war
class warfare | conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes) |
| trench warfare | a type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other, instead of the war ending quickly, it became bogged down in trench warfare |
chemical warfare
chemical operations | warfare using chemical agents to kill or injure or incapacitate the enemy |
biological warfare
BW
biological attack
biologic attack
bioattack | the use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food |
biological warfare defense
biological warfare defence
BW defense
BW defence | defense against biological warfare |
war
warfare | the waging of armed conflict against an enemy, thousands of people were killed in the war |
electronic warfare-support measures
ESM | electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition |
germ warfare
bacteriological warfare | the use of harmful bacteria as a weapon |
information warfare
IW | the use of information or information technology during a time of crisis or conflict to achieve or promote specific objectives over a specific adversary or adversaries, not everyone agrees that information warfare is limited to the realm of traditional warfare |
| war warfare | an active struggle between competing entities, a price war, a war of wits, diplomatic warfare |
| trench warfare | a struggle (usually prolonged) between competing entities in which neither side is able to win, the hope that his superior campaigning skills would make a difference evaporated in the realization that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare |
| Balkan Wars | two wars (-) that were fought over the last of the European territories of the Ottoman Empire and that left the area around Constantinople (now Istanbul) as the only Ottoman territory in Europe |
| Napoleonic Wars | a series of wars fought between France (led by Napoleon Bonaparte) and alliances involving England and Prussia and Russia and Austria at different times, - |
War of the Roses
Wars of the Roses | struggle for the English throne (-) between the house of York (white rose) and the house of Lancaster (red rose) ending with the accession of the Tudor monarch Henry VII |
Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division
NAWCWPNS | the principal agency of the United States Navy for research and development for air warfare and missile weapon systems |
Naval Special Warfare
NSW | the agency that provides units to conduct unconventional and counter-guerilla warfare |
Naval Surface Warfare Center
NSWC | the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for all aspects of surface warfare |
Naval Underwater Warfare Center
NUWC | the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for submarine and undersea warfare systems |
guerrilla force
guerilla force | an irregular armed force that fights by sabotage and harassment, often rural and organized in large groups |
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW | an organization of United States war veterans |
guerrilla
guerilla
irregular
insurgent | a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment |