military campaign
Organized combat effort
A military campaign is a series of connected operations pursuing a strategic objective within a larger war.
Campaigns are bounded by geography, time, or purpose: the North African campaign, the bombing campaign against industrial targets.
The term extends to any sustained, organized effort: a campaign to win hearts and minds.
- warfareArmed conflict between groups
- battle planScheme for combat
- armyOrganized land-based military
- boots on the groundMilitary presence in area
- battleArmed military engagement
amphibious assault · march · strategic retreat · Sun Tzu · fog of war · territorial expansion · naval blockade · blitzkrieg · D-Day · shock and awe · mobilization · troop surge · scorched earth · total war · guerrilla warfare · supply lines · Napoleonic Wars · war of attrition
- conquestwar of conquest, capture, invasion, domination, subjugation
- Napoleonic EgyptNapoleon Bonaparte, Bonaparte, French fleet, Rosetta Stone, Mamluks
- Ottoman-Venetian WarsVenice, Ottoman Empire, Battle of Lepanto, galleys, naval battles
- Expeditionsexpedition, Antarctic expedition, Arctic expedition, expeditions, Arctic exploration
- geopoliticsbalance of power, bipolarity, bloc, blocs, brinkmanship
- 1898 AmericaSpanish-American War, USS Maine, McKinley, Rough Riders, Cuba
military campaignpeace
Freedom from disturbance
peacetime · ceasefire · armistice · truce · pacification
military campaignskirmish
Brief, limited combat
firefight · raid · sortie · border clash · chance encounter
military campaignpeace process
Efforts to end hostilities
peace negotiations · diplomatic mission · peace talks · treaty negotiations · diplomacy
campaign, military, campaigner, campaigning, campaigned, militarism, campaigners, militarist, militaristic