combat readiness
Ready for war
Combat readiness is the state of being prepared for military action—having personnel trained, equipment maintained, and supplies stocked for immediate deployment.
Military units measure and report their combat readiness levels.
The term extends to any organization's preparedness for confrontation: The legal team maintained combat readiness for the expected lawsuit.
- preparednessState of being equipped
- deploymentOrganized distribution of resources
- musterAssemble for inspection
- vigilanceState of keen awareness
- locked and loadedFully prepared to fire
battle stations · alertness · reconnaissance · unit cohesion · training · mobilization · war game · defense strategy · drill · field exercise · briefing · stand-to · war footing · armed · weapons check · inspection · tactical training · scramble
- military readinessmobilization, deployment, drills, training, exercises
- military reformreorganization, modernization, restructuring, command structure, personnel cuts
- Military SkillsASVAB, marksmanship, strategic planning, discipline, physical fitness
- military strategymilitary doctrine, tactical maneuvers, war planning, defense policy, nuclear strategy
- National GuardNational Guard, guardsmen, reservist, Air National Guard, drill weekend
- Spartan valuesdiscipline, austerity, courage, endurance, toughness
combat readinessunpreparedness
Lacking readiness beforehand
demobilization · stand-down · unprepared · disarmament · ill-prepared
combat readinessunfit
Not suited for purpose
out of shape · unfit for duty · deconditioned · undertrained · soft
combat readinesscomplacency
Uncritical satisfaction with oneself
inattention · laxity · unpreparedness · negligence · unalert
combat, readiness, combative, combatant, combatting, combativeness, combatants, noncombatant, combated