military engineering
Wartime infrastructure building
Military engineering is the design, construction, and maintenance of structures and systems for warfare—fortifications, bridges, roads, airfields, and obstacles.
Military engineers build what armies need to move and fight, and destroy what the enemy needs.
The discipline also includes demolitions, mine warfare, and field defenses: The military engineering unit bridged the river overnight.
- combat engineersMilitary construction and demolition specialists
- moatsDefensive water channels
- tank trapsObstacles stopping armored vehicles
- catapultsDevices for launching projectiles
- trench warfareCombat from fortified ditches
earthworks · trenches · supply depots · barbed wire · airstrips · forward operating base · field fortifications · defensive positions · bunkers · blast walls · minefields · walls · fortifications · sapper · revetments · casemates · missile silos · explosives
- Military Affairsdefense secretary, War Department, defense strategy, congressional oversight, commander in chief
- military educationofficer training, cadet training, war college, tactical training
- military engineeringengineers, combat engineer, combat engineers, sappers, sapper
- warfarebattle, combat, attack, war, armed conflict
- ancient weaponssword, swords, shield, shields, bow
- military sciencestrategy, tactics, warfare, combat training, defense policy
military engineeringcivil engineering
Public structure construction field
public works · residential construction · commercial construction · urban planning · community development
military engineeringsustainable development
Meeting needs without exhausting resources
reconstruction · environmental engineering · community building · development projects · environmental restoration