military aid
Wartime foreign support
Military aid is support one country provides to another's armed forces, typically including weapons, equipment, training, or funding.
It may be given as grants or loans, often with strategic strings attached.
The bill authorized $2 billion in military aid to Ukraine.
Military aid serves foreign policy goals—strengthening allies, countering adversaries, or stabilizing regions.
- weaponsTools for fighting
- arms dealNegotiated weapons sale
- dronesUnmanned aerial vehicles
- ammunitionWeapon projectiles and charges
- armored vehiclesPlated military transport machines
tactical training · medical supplies · foreign policy · intelligence sharing · counterinsurgency · peacekeeping missions · humanitarian corridor · spare parts · proxy wars · combat simulations · airstrikes · communication devices · helicopters · radar systems · uniforms · missiles · covert operations · shipments
- military aidarms sales, arms deals, munitions, war materiel, weapon systems
- Aid termsfirst aid, band-aid, hearing aid, financial aid, foreign aid
- foreign policydiplomacy, diplomatic negotiations, sanctions, containment, deterrence
- Cold War AsiaSoviet Union, North Korea, Vietnam, Korean War, Soviet-Afghan War
- Cold War economicsMarshall Plan, containment policy, economic sanctions, trade embargo, arms race
- Defense Policydefense budget, defense policy, defense spending, defense secretary, defense minister
military aidhumanitarian aid
Crisis relief for sufferers
humanitarian relief · humanitarian assistance · development aid · food aid · medical aid
military aiddiplomatic intervention
Formal governmental conflict resolution
peace negotiations · conflict resolution · peace process · diplomatic solution · peace talks
military aidarms embargo
Ban on military exports
weapons embargo · disarmament · demilitarization · arms reduction · weapons ban