For Army we have terms and definitions in 3 topics. The topics are Backgammon, Explosives and Soviet Union.

Army (Backgammon)

The formation of a player's checkers as they work together to block and attack the opponent, then and come home safely.

Army (Explosives)

An army is a land based armed force under regular military organization, as distinguished from the horde, or armed mass of all able-bodied men in a tribe. The earliest known professional army was that of Egypt, followed by those of Assyria and Persia. Military service became obligatory for citizens of Greece. The Roman army evolved from a citizen soldiery into a professional standing army increasingly composed of barbarian mercenaries. In the Middle Ages, the armed knight and yeoman owed a set number of days of military service each year to a great lord; but with the decline of feudalism and the advent of firearms, this system also gave way to the service of mercenaries. In the 1t7 h century. Louis XIV of France organized a national standing army that set the pattern for all of Europe: a highly disciplined, professional body set apart from civilian life. The concept reached a harsh perfection under Frederick II of Prussia. It was the introduction of conscription during the French Revolutionary Wars that set in motion the development of modern mass armies built around a professional nucleus and organized into specialized units for combat and support. Although conscription was used in the U.S. Civil War and WW I, the U.S., until 1940, traditionally relied in emergencies on its citizen militia, the National Guard, and on voluntary enlistment in the armed forces; the peacetime draft was again lifted in 1973. The term army generally applies to all armed land forces of a nation (e.g., the French army); it can also designate a self-contained fighting force in a given area (e.g., the Army of the Potomac in the U.S. Civil War) or a unit of 100,000 men composed of two or more corps. A corps in turn is composed of two or more divisions (usually about 15,000 men). Traditionally, an army was made up of major Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery commands, but these gave way to more complex forms of organization. Today, each division typically includes infantry, airborne, mechanized, and other specialized battalions or brigades.

Army (Soviet Union)

In general usage, the armed forces of the Soviet Union except the navy. In military usage, an army in the Ground Forces usually consisted of two to five divisions.

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