interservice
Across military branches
Interservice describes activities, cooperation, or rivalry involving multiple branches of the armed forces: interservice coordination between the Army and Navy, interservice competition for defense funding.
The term appears almost exclusively in military contexts, covering everything from joint training exercises to bureaucratic turf wars between services.
Multi-activity fitness approach
- interoperabilityCross-platform functional harmony
- liaisonConnector between groups
- coordinationOrganized cooperative movement
- integrationCombining into a whole
teamwork · partnership · camaraderie · cohesion · synergy · harmonization · synchronization · jointness
Established body of teachings
- planningArranging for future events
- tacticsMethods to achieve goals
- readinessState of being prepared
- logisticsCoordination of complex activities
command · maneuvers · exercises · intelligence · deployment · contingency · assets · capabilities
Organized military body
Struggle for supremacy
- PentagonU.S. military headquarters
- procurementObtaining goods externally
- appropriationsDesignated funds for purposes
- parochialismExcessive local focus
infighting · disputes · friction · tensions · jurisdictional · interagency · bureaucratic
cross-training
Multi-activity fitness approach
- interoperabilityCross-platform functional harmony
- liaisonConnector between groups
- coordinationOrganized cooperative movement
integration · teamwork · partnership · camaraderie · cohesion · synergy · harmonization · synchronization · jointness · multilateral
doctrine
Established body of teachings
logistics · command · maneuvers · exercises · intelligence · deployment · contingency · assets · capabilities · mission
Army
Organized military body
competition
Struggle for supremacy
- PentagonU.S. military headquarters
- procurementObtaining goods externally
- appropriationsDesignated funds for purposes
parochialism · infighting · disputes · friction · tensions · jurisdictional · interagency · bureaucratic
interserviceindependent
Free from external control
uncoordinated · siloed · stovepiped · autonomous · compartmentalized
interserviceinteragency
Involving multiple government organizations
international · multinational · coalition · civil-military · intergovernmental
service, services, servicing, serviced, serviceable, serviceman, interactions, servicemen, serviceability