Category talk:Types of military forces

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Terrorist Organizations[edit]

Terrorist organizations should be in their own category and not part of Irregular Military. Irregular Military should be reserved for non-standard military units fighting a conventional war as understood over the last couple of centuries and defined under the Genevar Convention. Terrorist organizations do not fall into this catagory. Further, everyone clearly understands what a terrorist organization is, as noted by the actual organization names. Thus trying to put them in some other category is doing so for someone's POV.

--Noitall 22:30, 28 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Militias and Irregular Military are generally recognized as being organized within the rules of a nation state. Organizations that are not affiliated with a nation state, but may be affiliated with some religion, include terrorist organizations. AlMac|(talk) 20:14, 27 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Categories[edit]

After I saw requests in several military article talk sections for anyone to do a better job of organizing the massive collection of articles not in any sub-category, and also a huge volume of somewhat related sub-categories, I moved some stuff to try to add a little bit more organization.

Looks to me like the content of Category:Types of forces and Category:Types of military are so similar that perhaps they should be combined into a new sub-category:Types of military forces, which might go into the Category:Military organization, which is in turn in Category Military in Category:War. AlMac|(talk) 20:14, 27 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • The two categories host organizations from army, navy, air, marine, SOF, etc. It would be more clear to do away with Category:Types of military and Category:Types of forces, and instead creat Category:Navy Organization , Category:Army Organization , and Category:Navy Organization. All of these belong inside Category:Military organization MCG|(talk) 27 Aug 06

Merge suggestion[edit]

Suggest merging Category:Types of military forces to Category:Military forces by type. It seems redundant & confusing to have two similiarly named cats. Also, looks like lots of overlap. FieldMarine (talk) 18:16, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I hear ya. the problem is that actually they are not overlapping. this category, Category:Types of military forces relates only to categories of entire national military forces, i.e. armies, navies, etc etc. whereas the other category, Category:Military forces by type, relates to types of units within the larger national military., we simply need to find some alternate term to use, if possible and if anyone wishes. --Sm8900 (talk) 15:16, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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