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This is a list of established military terms which have been in use for at least 50 years. Since technology and doctrine have changed over time, not all of them are in current use, or they may have been superseded by more modern terms.
Military payment certificates, or MPC, was a form of currency used to pay United States (US) military personnel in certain foreign countries in the mid and late twentieth century. They were used in one area or another from a few months after the end of World War II until a few months after the end of U.S. participation in the Vietnam War ...
Guo Wengui ( Chinese: 郭文贵; born May 10, 1970—self claim [3] or October 5, 1968 [4] ), also known under the Cantonese name Ho Wan Kwok ( 郭浩云 ), [5] Miles Guo, and Miles Kwok, [6] is a self-exiled Chinese billionaire businessman and later political activist, who controls Beijing Zenith Holdings (via proxies Li Lin and Jiang Yuehua ...
Military ranks are a system of hierarchical relationships, within armed forces, [1] police, [2] intelligence agencies or other institutions organized along military lines. The military rank system defines dominance, authority, and responsibility in a military hierarchy. It incorporates the principles of exercising power and authority into the military chain of command —the succession of ...
This is a list of notable open-source video games. Open-source video games are assembled from and are themselves open-source software, including public domain games with public domain source code. This list also includes games in which the engine is open-source but other data (such as art and music) is under a more restrictive license.
Gary McKinnon (born 10 February 1966) is a Scottish [1] systems administrator and hacker who was accused in 2002 of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time", [2] although McKinnon himself states that he was merely looking for evidence of free energy suppression and a cover-up of UFO activity and other technologies potentially useful to the public. On 16 October 2012, after ...
Haroldson Lafayette Hunt Jr. (February 17, 1889 – November 29, 1974) was an American oil tycoon. [1] By trading poker winnings for oil rights according to legend, but more likely through money he gained from successful speculation in oil leases, he ultimately secured title to much of the East Texas Oil Field, one of the world's largest oil ...
Military history is the study of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, cultures and economies thereof, as well as the resulting changes to local and international relationships .