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A private is a soldier of the lowest military rank (equivalent to NATO Rank Grades OR-1 to OR-3 depending on the force served in). In modern military parlance, 'private' is shortened to 'Pte' in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries and to
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French Orders & Distinctions Franco-British Association Cross of Honor French Colonial Orders French Orders Sets & Groups National Order of the Legion of Honor National Order of Merit Order of Combatant’s Merit Order of Military Merit Order of Saharan Merit ...
Impi is a Zulu word for any armed body of men. However, in English it is often used to refer to a Zulu regiment, which is called an ibutho in Zulu. Its beginnings lie far back in historic tribal warfare customs, when groups of armed men called impis batt
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The meaningful distinctions are centralization and duration: Any Army (or Marine) unit of whatever size will, since the American Civil War, "run in all directions" virtually all the time — except on the parade field. The exercise of command is therefore indirect (via nested orders of increasi...
while medical necessity usually makes no distinctions between the lives it saves. Medical necessity serves all patients. At the same time, military and medical necessity each strives to maximize quality of life. But here, too, each defends a different kind of life. The state defends its collecti...