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Description: definition of army
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| Definition | A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations. 1858, Prince George, letter to Sir Colin Campbell : An army never can be commanded or controlled by civilians. The army was sent in to quell the uprising. 1970 September 13, Robie MacAuley, “The Army as one of life's awful necessities”, in The New York Times [1] : This taut, soldierly, professional story is something of a stranger among American novels about war making. Angry civilians have writ ten most of the best fiction on the subject, from “Three Soldiers” through “Catch‐22,” to make the point (with a good deal of literary overkill) that wars are mass insanity and that armies are madhouses. Used absolutely for that entire branch of the armed forces. The army received a bigger share of this year's budget increase than the navy or air force. Within a vast military, a very large tactical contingent (e.g. a number of divisions). The Fourth Army suffered such losses that its remainders were merged into the Second Army, also deployed on the Western front. |
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