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Arts in the Armed Forces, Inc. (AITAF) was a non-profit based in Brooklyn, New York that brings arts programming to active-duty service members, veterans, military support staff of the United States and their families around the world free of charge. [1] The organization was founded by actors Adam Driver and Joanne Tucker in 2006.
Military art encompasses actions of military forces in times of peace. For example, USMC Sgt. Kristopher Battles , the only remaining official American war artist in 2010, deployed with American forces in Haiti to provide humanitarian relief as part of Operation Unified Response after the disastrous earthquake in 2010.
The U.S. Army War Art Unit was established in late 1942; and by the spring of 1943, 42 artists were selected. In May 1943, Congress withdrew funding the unit was inactivated. [3] The Army's Vietnam Combat Art Program was started in 1966. Teams of soldier-artists created pictorial accounts and interpretations for the annals of army military history.
The Canadian Forces Artists Program (or CFAP) was established on June 6, 2001, by the then-Chief of Defence Staff Maurice Baril. [1] Its purpose is to document, in the form of art, Canadian Forces soldiers serving at home and abroad.
The art of war is the art of concentrating and employing, at the opportune moment, a superior force of troops upon the decisive point. [3] and . The art of divining the intention of the enemy from slight indications is one which rarely misleads, and is one of the most precious attributes of military genius. [4]
On Guard at Sunset (1991) by SFC Peter G. Varisano, an example of a painting made for the United States Army Collection. War art continued through subsequent wars, including the Korean War, Vietnam War, Desert Storm/Desert Shield and the Global War on Terrorism as well as other operations by the Army.
ARB (Army Hand-to-Hand Combat) is a Soviet martial art based on sambo that began development for the military in 1979. It has since become a popular combat sport in Russia. Krav Maga is an Israeli martial art that was used by Zionist paramilitary groups and subsequently adopted by the Israeli military when it was founded in 1948.
Unlike Canada, the United Kingdom, and some other nations, the United States federal armed forces do not maintain any "voluntary bands", or bands composed of unpaid civilian musicians who dress in military uniforms. All U.S. military bands are composed of regularly enlisted or commissioned military personnel.