military deployment
Sending forces abroad
Military deployment is the movement of armed forces and their equipment to a location where they will operate.
Deployment may be for combat, peacekeeping, humanitarian assistance, or strategic positioning: Her husband's deployment to Afghanistan lasted nine months.
The term also covers the arrangement of troops once they arrive: The deployment of forces along the border signaled readiness for conflict.
- staging areasPre-operation assembly locations
- forward operating baseMilitary outpost near action
- theater of operationsDesignated area of military activity
- mobilizationOrganizing for action
- troop surgeRapid military reinforcement
redeployment · logistics · march · combat zone · treaty obligations · combat training · chain of command · supply depots · troop movement · boots on the ground · airlift · contingency planning · field hospitals · peacekeeping missions · regional stability · situational awareness · medical facilities · boots
- farewell partiesfarewell party, going away party, goodbye party, send-off, sendoff
- away from hometravel, vacation, trip, holiday, business trip
- global experiencesstudy abroad, exchange student, cultural immersion, travel abroad, volunteer abroad
- sending offgoodbye wave, farewell party, bon voyage, airport goodbye, going away party
- family lossorphan, motherless, fatherless, parentless, abandonment
- marriage obstaclesfamily feud, religious differences, legal age, consanguinity, bigamy
military deploymentmilitary withdrawal
Armed forces leaving area
troop withdrawal · pullout · retreat · evacuation · drawdown
military deploymentdemobilization
Ending wartime military readiness
standing down · stand-down · deactivation · garrison duty · peacekeeping
military deploymentdiplomatic solution
Conflict resolved through envoys
peace talks · negotiation · ceasefire · peace treaty · disarmament
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