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Strategic approach in military deterrence theory
A tripwire force (sometimes called a glass plate) is a strategic approach in deterrence theory whereby a small force is deployed abroad with the assumption
Tripwire_force
Factor that gives military assets the ability to accomplish greater feats than without it
In military science, force multiplication or a force multiplier is a factor or a combination of factors that gives personnel or weapons (or other hardware)
Force_multiplication
Presented before Russian invasion of Ukraine
Ukraine. This prompted NATO to end co-operation and to deploy a small tripwire force in the Baltic states and Poland. On 15 December 2021, Russia issued
2021 Russian ultimatum to NATO
2021_Russian_ultimatum_to_NATO
European military exercise in Greenland
military threats; however, outside analysts described the deployment as a tripwire force actually directed at the U.S. to make any invasion politically costly
Operation_Arctic_Endurance
Strategic timeline concept for China's potential military action against Taiwan
Corporation warns the U.S. would struggle to win a Taiwan conflict under current force balances. As of 2025, military analysts note China continues capability
Davidson_window
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List_of_bloodless_wars
Intergovernmental military alliance
annexation of Crimea in 2014, NATO suspended co-operation and deployed a tripwire force in the east. The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine prompted NATO to reinforce
NATO
Military organisation composed of ex-service civilians
A military reserve force is a military organization whose members (reservists) have military and civilian occupations. They are not normally kept under
Military_reserve_force
Topics referred to by the same term
A tripwire is a passive triggering mechanism such as a wire attached to a device. Tripwire or tripwires may also may refer to: Tripwire (novel), 1999
Tripwire_(disambiguation)
War crime involving breaking of a promise
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Perfidy
Military arms and supplies
materiel refers either to the specific needs (excluding manpower) of a force to complete a specific mission, or the general sense of the needs (excluding
Materiel
Military strategy during the Cold War with regard to the use of nuclear weapons
influence Security dilemma – Unwanted escalation of interstate tensions Tripwire force – Strategic approach in military deterrence theory Wargaming – Strategy
Deterrence_theory
Infantry formation
immediately challenged. He managed to build up a force of 24,000 regulars and was joined by a force of 18,000 Saxons of questionable quality under von
Pike_and_shot
Giving up control over territory or resources to another power
handing over of weapons; previously the commanding officer of a surrendering force symbolically offered his sword to the victorious commander. Individual combatants
Surrender_(military)
Brief excursion of one military unit from a strongpoint
destruction of siege weaponry and engineering works, joining the relief force, etc. Sir John Thomas Jones, analyzing a number of sieges carried out during
Sortie
Attack by one or more unmanned combat aerial vehicles
pilot or have varying levels of autonomy during their mission. Drones are a force multiplier that may supplement–or reduce the necessity for–live personnel
Drone_warfare
Military strategy of wearing down the enemy
of a decisive battle. It contrasts with strategies such as blitzkrieg or force concentration, which aim to achieve rapid victory through overwhelming power
Attrition_warfare
Second-Sino Japanese War List of individual weapons of the New Zealand Defence Force List of Norwegian military equipment of World War II List of World War II
Lists_of_weapons
Person specializing in combat or warfare
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Warrior
Military position
American Civil War. In cavalry terminology, the men scouting ahead of the main force were said to be "riding point". This use was first recorded in 1903. The
Take_point
Book by Lee Child
Tripwire is the third book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. It was published in 1999 by Putnam in America and Bantam in the United Kingdom
Tripwire_(novel)
suspect the enemy is nearby. Force concentration – the practice of concentrating a military force against a portion of an enemy force. Night combat – combat
List_of_military_tactics
Strip of land between wartime trenches
and personnel correspondences of the members of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). In World War I, no man's land often ranged from several hundred yards
No_man's_land
Doctrine of military strategy
attacked for any reason by the other, would retaliate with equal or greater force. The expected result is an immediate, irreversible escalation of hostilities
Mutually_assured_destruction
Group of people who carry out orders based on the authority of others within the group
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Command_hierarchy
Type of concealed or secretive government activity
first modern police force was established in 1829 by Sir Robert Peel as the Metropolitan Police of London. From the start, the force occasionally employed
Covert_operation
Deployment of a state's military to fight abroad
Expeditionary Force 1914–1920 First Australian Imperial Force (Europe) 1914-1921 Indian Expeditionary Force 1914–1918 Hejaz Expeditionary Force (Ottoman Empire)
Expeditionary_warfare
Military combat on land
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Land_warfare
Permanent army composed of full-time career soldiers or conscripts
Empire was gradually instituted, with regularized pay. This professional force of legionaries was expensive to maintain, but supported the authority of
Standing_army
Element of hierarchy in armed forces
designation), fleet admiral (U.S. Navy), Marshal of the Royal Air Force, or other national air force. These ranks have often been discontinued, such as in Germany
Military_rank
Warring party to military conflict
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Belligerent
Type of armed conflict between two states or non-state actors
country. Acting either as a nation-state government or as a conventional force, a proxy belligerent acts on behalf of a third-party state sponsor. A proxy
Proxy_war
Capacity of a group's members to maintain belief in an institution or goal
persistently and consistently in pursuit of a common purpose". With good morale, a force will be less likely to give up or surrender. Deliberately attempting to
Morale
Where both sides commit to fight at a location
They are also planned to take advantage of terrain favourable to one's force. Forces strong in cavalry, for example, will not select swamp, forest, or
Pitched_battle
Actions taken by a state to mobilize its economy for war production
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War_economy
Military strategy
military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and destruction of
Scorched_earth
Canon of military treatises from ancient China
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Seven_Military_Classics
Structuring of armed forces of a state
air force. Many countries have a variation on the standard model of three basic military branches. Some nations also organize their cyber force, emergencies
Military_organization
Theory of military strategy
simply refers to irregular methods to counter a conventionally superior force. The vagueness of the term means that it is often used as a catch-all term
Hybrid_warfare
Military strategy favoring a war of attrition
harrying against Santa Anna's much larger force, to give time for the Army of Texas to grow into a viable fighting force. When he finally met Santa Anna at San
Fabian_strategy
Organized force intended for warfare
known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. Militaries are typically authorized and
Military
Light infantry or light cavalry soldier
thureophoroi and thorakites would be developed to provide a strong mobile force for the Greek and the Macedonian armies. The Celts did not, in general,
Skirmisher
Wartime situation in which a force or target is surrounded by enemy forces
situation when a force or target is isolated and surrounded by enemy forces. The situation is highly dangerous for the encircled force. At the strategic
Encirclement
Doctrine about when a war is ethically just
use of force in two parts: when it is right to resort to armed force (the concern of jus ad bellum) and what is acceptable in using such force (the concern
Just_war_theory
Symbolic expressions of combat scenarios
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Ritual_warfare
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List_of_wars_by_death_toll
Members of the armed forces
to their military branch (army, navy, marines, coast guard, air force, and space force), rank (officer, non-commissioned officer, or enlisted recruit)
Military_personnel
Political officer in the military
propaganda tasks targeting the enemy by showing the Red Army as a righteous force. In the People's Liberation Army (PLA), each level of the command has a
Political_commissar
List of wars throughout history
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Lists_of_wars
Attentional phenomenon
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Target_fixation
Organized description of an armed force
An order of battle of an armed force participating in a military operation or campaign shows the hierarchical organization, command structure, strength
Order_of_battle
Science and art of organizing a military force and techniques
firepower of modern armies. Mobility, which determines how quickly a fighting force can move, was for most of human history limited by the speed of a soldier
Military_tactics
Warfare by small groups against regular forces
engage in limited skirmishes with the goal of exhausting adversaries and forcing them to withdraw (see also attrition warfare). Organized guerrilla groups
Guerrilla_warfare
Intense armed conflict
incumbent regime. Information warfare is the application of destructive force on a large scale against information assets and systems, against the computers
War
Subdivision of the national armed forces
– namely the Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Navy, and Royal Canadian Air Force – it remains a single military service. Branch of service (also branch of
Military_branch
Training for military activities
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Military education and training
Military_education_and_training
Armed conflict ending with no peace treaty
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Frozen_conflict
Infantry riding horses instead of marching
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Mounted_infantry
Political science and military industry term
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Defense_industrial_base
War involving major global states
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World_war
Company providing armed combat or security services
especially in hostile territories. However, contractors that use armed force in a war zone may be considered unlawful combatants in reference to a concept
Private_military_company
Military strategy
an attacker's logistics or spread out a numerically superior attacking force. Once an attacker has lost momentum or is forced to spread out to pacify
Defence_in_depth
Physical combat at close range
Commissioner William E. Fairbairn of the Shanghai Municipal Police, the police force of the Shanghai International Settlement (1854–1943).[citation needed] After
Close-quarters_battle
Use of armoured fighting vehicles in war
was not created until 1940 when the Armored Force was born on 10 July 1940, with the Headquarters, Armor Force and the Headquarters, I Armored Corps established
Armoured_warfare
Military units deployed via parachute
limited only by the number and size of their transport aircraft; a sizeable force can appear "out of the sky" behind enemy lines in merely hours if not minutes
Airborne_forces
War within a country
delegations feared that it might be taken to cover any act committed by force of arms". Accordingly, the commentaries provide for different 'conditions'
Civil_war
Military tactic in which retreating forces maintain contact with the enemy
to consolidate forces, to occupy ground that is more easily defended, force the enemy to overextend to secure a decisive victory, or to lead the enemy
Withdrawal_(military)
Prevention of trade or movement by force
A blockade is the use of military force to prevent food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes people, entering or leaving a country or
Blockade
Opposite of conventional warfare
power by operating through or with an underground, auxiliary, and guerrilla force in a denied area. Between the 17th and 18th centuries, there were wars between
Unconventional_warfare
Diplomatic crisis over US annexation threats
escalated in early 2026 after Trump refused to rule out the use of military force to annex Greenland and threatened a 25% import tax on goods from several
Greenland_crisis
Approach to warfare
local superiority. The early Republic Roman Legion was a combined arms force and consisted of five classes of troops. Lightly equipped velites acted
Combined_arms
Major and largest sub-formation within a military service branch
Air Force (USAF), the acronym MAJCOM is used. There are several types of DOD major commands: List of major commands of the United States Air Force List
Command_(military_formation)
Combat that occurs during the hours of darkness
was the tripflare, consisting of a pyrotechnic instrument activated by tripwire, planted near trails to provide early warning of enemy movement. By 1944
Night_combat
Weapon device for preventing occupation or traversing of a specified location
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Area_denial_weapon
Facility directly owned and operated by or for the military
forces, such as marines) to the exclusion of a base used by either an air force or a navy. This is consistent with the different meanings of the word 'military'
Military_base
Any non-standard military organization
such organizations may be called a troop, group, unit, column, band, or force. Irregulars are soldiers or warriors that are members of these organizations
Irregular_military
Proposed United States military base in Poland
the presidency of Barack Obama with the stated intent of providing a tripwire force to guard against possible Russian expansion into Eastern Europe. In
Fort_Trump
Military tactic
to the concept of a coordinated mass of soldiers falling upon an enemy force and sweeping them away with sheer weight and momentum, like an ocean wave
Human_wave_attack
Temporary line created when a military unit reaches a landing beach by sea
reinforcements arrive. Once a large enough unit is assembled, the invading force can begin advancing inland. The term is sometimes used interchangeably (both
Beachhead
List of actions an armed force intends to carry out to achieve combat goals
operational-level planning, specifically commanders and staffs employed in joint force command headquarters and component command headquarters. It describes the
Military_operation_plan
Wheeled armoured fighting vehicle
armored car to break through the Germans' lines and force the Germans to retreat. The British Royal Air Force (RAF) in the Middle East was equipped with Rolls-Royce
Armored_car_(military)
Revolutionary Army, People's Defence Force (Kalay), People's Liberation Army, People's Revolution Alliance (Magway), Student Armed Force, National Liberation Army
List of non-international armed conflicts
List_of_non-international_armed_conflicts
Warfare of the Mesoamerican civilization
many of the Aztec religious festivals. Warfare was thus the main driving force of both Aztec economy and religion. There were two main objectives in Aztec
Aztec_warfare
Military strategy based on overwhelming power
strategy based on the use of overwhelming power and spectacular displays of force to paralyze the enemy's perception of the battlefield and destroy their
Shock_and_awe
Act of forceful subjugation
territorial army occupying a territory takes over and moves civilization through force of arms. This total subjugation, by either migration or conquest frequently
Conquest
All-out attack to break enemy lines
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Shock_tactics
Type of military operation
Operation Coronado IX conducted by the United States Navy's Mobile Riverine Force during the Vietnam War. An air offensive is an operation that can describe
Offensive_(military)
War between two states in open confrontation
military, which negates its ability to engage in conventional warfare. In forcing capitulation, however, one or both sides may eventually resort to unconventional
Conventional_warfare
5th-century BC Chinese military treatise
deception from The Art of War was studied and widely used by the KGB: "I will force the enemy to take our strength for weakness, and our weakness for strength
The_Art_of_War
Clandestine preparations started by governments for anticipated invasions
quickly deploy forward, link up with the rear guard or 'aggressive delaying force' and 'stay-behind' as these forces withdrew, letting themselves be bypassed
Stay-behind
Early modern fortification style built to withstand cannon fire
over the wall with ladders and overcome the defenders. For the invading force these fortifications proved quite difficult to overcome and, accordingly
Bastion_fort
Simultaneous discharge of weaponry
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Salvo
Military strategy
Force concentration is the practice of concentrating a military force so as to bring to bear such overwhelming force against a portion of an enemy force
Force_concentration
Long-term military strategy plan within a war
needed] A military campaign denotes the time during which a given military force conducts combat operations in a given area (often referred to as AO, area
Military_campaign
Principle of war
Economy of force is one of the nine Principles of War, based upon Carl von Clausewitz's approach to warfare. It is the principle of employing all available
Economy_of_force
Study of the theories of war and warfare
when force is used and what forms the use of force may take. It also aids in identifying and explaining practical outcomes to help determine how force may
Military_theory
Type of United States military facility
with no permanent force or contractor personnel, or a forward operating base (FOB) and main operating base (MOB), with a large force and a well-defended
Forward_operating_site
Practices associated with a military unit
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Military_tradition
Alliance between different states with the purpose to cooperate militarily
nineteenth century. Politics portal List of military alliances Multinational force Coercion (international relations) Kuo, Raymond (2019). "Secrecy among Friends:
Military_alliance
Formulae for relative strengths of military forces
casualties, until the smaller force is eventually eliminated: the greater probability of any one shot hitting the larger force is balanced by the greater
Lanchester's_laws
TRIPWIRE FORCE
TRIPWIRE FORCE
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained. In part it may be an Anglicized spelling of French Triplet, a reduced form of Tripelet, from a derivative of the Old French verb tripier ‘to hop’, ‘to skip’, hence a nickname for a dancer or acrobat.
Boy/Male
Sikh
Forceful
Boy/Male
Sikh
The conqueror of forces, Victorious army
Boy/Male
Tamil
Soul, Life force
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Sumpter.Fort Sumter, SC, was named in honor of Thomas Sumter, known as the ‘Gamecock of the Revolution’ for the fear he inspired in the British and Tory forces and the pivotal role he played in key American victories. Born in 1734 near Charlottesville, VA, he was of Welsh heritage; his ancestors probably emigrated to America in the late 17th century.
Boy/Male
Sikh
The conqueror of forces, Victorious army
Boy/Male
Indian
God of force
Surname or Lastname
English, French, and German
English, French, and German : variant spelling of Martel.Catalan : metonymic occupational name for a smith, or nickname for a forceful person, from martell ‘hammer’ (Late Latin martellus).
Girl/Female
Muslim
Force to move forward, Force
Boy/Male
Muslim
Strength, Force, Occupation
Girl/Female
Indian
Force to move forward, Force
Surname or Lastname
German, English, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
German, English, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German hamer, Yiddish hamer, a metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of hammers, for example in a forge, or nickname for a forceful person.English and German : topographic name for someone who lived in an area of flat, low-lying alluvial land beside a stream, Old English hamm, Old High German ham (see Hamm) + the English and German agent suffix -er.Norwegian : variant of Hamar.
Surname or Lastname
English and German
English and German : from a medieval personal name, a pet form of Martin or Marta.English and French : metonymic occupational name for a smith or a nickname for a forceful person, from Old French martel ‘hammer’ (Late Latin martellus). Charles Martel, the grandfather of Charlemagne, gained his byname from the force with which he struck down his enemies in battle.Spanish and Portuguese : from Portuguese martelo, Old Spanish martel ‘hammer’ (Late Latin martellus), or an Iberianized form of the Italian cognate Martello.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Hain 1–3.Isaac Hayne (1745–81) was an American revolutionary militia officer, executed by the British for breaking parole. He owned an ironworks and was manufacturing ammunition for the American forces when he was caught. His grandfather had emigrated from England to SC in about 1700.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Fosse. There has been some confusion with northwestern English force in the sense of ‘waterfall’, it is possible that the surname may also have arisen as a topographic name for someone living by a waterfall.French : topographic name for someone who lived by a fortress or stronghold, Old French force, Late Latin fortia, a derivative of fortis ‘strong’ (see Fort). There are several places named with this word (for example in Aude, and baronial lands in the Dordogne), and it may also be a habitational name from any of these.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a wool or flax comber, Middle English kem(be)stere (an agent derivative of Old English cemban ‘to comb’). Although this was originally a feminine form of the masculine kembere, by the Middle English period the suffix -stre had lost its feminine force, and the term was used to refer to both sexes. Compare Baxter, Brewster, Dexter.
Surname or Lastname
Scottish
Scottish : name of a clan associated with Caithness, derived from the Old Norse personal name Gunnr (or the feminine form Gunne), a short form of any of various compound names with the first element gunn ‘battle’.Scottish : sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Dhuinn ‘son of the servant of the brown one’ (see Dunn). (According to Woulfe a name of the same form also existed in Sligo, Ireland.)English : metonymic occupational name for someone who operated a siege engine or cannon, perhaps also a nickname for a forceful person, from Middle English gunne, gonne ‘ballista’, ‘cannon’, ‘gun’. The term originated as a humorous application of the Scandinavian female personal name Gunne or Gunnhildr.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Force.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational and topographic name for someone who lived or worked in a forest (see Forrest).English : Norman French nickname or occupational name from Old French forcetier ‘cutter’, an agent noun from forcettes ‘scissors’.English : occupational name, by metathesis, from Old French fust(r)ier ‘blockmaker’ (a derivative of fustre ‘block of wood’).German (Förster) : occupational and topographic name for someone who lived and worked in a forest (see Forst).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Forst ‘forest’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Force.Perhaps an altered form of Dutch Voorhees.
TRIPWIRE FORCE
TRIPWIRE FORCE
Female
Bulgarian
, people's love.
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Born of the Heart
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu
Another Name of Sun; God; Son of Adithi
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Corey, possibly CORY means "deep hollow, ravine."
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi
Charitable; Good
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Angel
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, English, French, Latin, Polish
Dark-skinned Man
Girl/Female
Hindu
Golden Moon, Apsara of unequalled splendor
Girl/Female
Hindu
Decorated with flowers, One that has flowered
Female
French
Feminine form of French Noël, NOËLLE means "day of birth."
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n.
To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
n.
One who, or that which, forces or drives.
n.
To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
a.
Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty.
v. i.
To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
n.
To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
n.
To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
a.
Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh.
n.
To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor.
n.
Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation.
a.
Having little or no force; feeble.
n.
The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig.
n.
A manganese phosphate near triplite, but containing hydroxyl instead of fluorine.
n.
To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
n.
Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.
imp. & p. p.
of Force
n.
The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump.
n.
A mineral of a dark brown color, generally with a fibrous, massive structure. It is a fluophosphate of iron and manganese.
n.
Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.
v. i.
To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.