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Clausewitz defined the 'order of battle' as "that division and formation of the different arms into separate parts, or sections, of the whole Army, and that form of general position or disposition of those parts which is to be the norm throughout the whole campaign or war." Division comes from the permanent peacetime organization of the Army ...
This is a list of current formations of the United States Army, which is constantly changing as the Army changes its structure over time. Due to the nature of those changes, specifically the restructuring of brigades into autonomous modular brigades, debate has arisen as to whether brigades are units or formations; for the purposes of this list, brigades are currently excluded.
This is a list of orders of battle, which list the known military units that were located within the field of operations for a battle or campaign. The battles are listed in chronological order by starting date (or planned start date).
This is the order of battle for the invasion of Iraq during the Iraq War between coalition forces [1] and the Iraqi Armed Forces; Fedayeen Saddam irregulars; and others between March 19 and May 1, 2003. The United States Army has defined an "order of battle" as the "identification and command structure" of a unit or formation. [2]
The United States Army is made up of three components: one active—the Regular Army; and two reserve components—the Army National Guard and the Army Reserve. Both reserve components are primarily composed of part-time soldiers who train once a month, known as Battle Assembly , Unit Training Assemblies (UTAs), or simply "drills", while ...
1st Battalion, 17th Infantry [1] 2nd Battalion, 17th Infantry (reflagged 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry (Airborne) on 16 October 1989) [2][3] 2nd Brigade, Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Headquarters & Headquarters Company. 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry [4] 5th Battalion, 9th Infantry. 6th Battalion, 297th Infantry (Alaska Army National Guard assigned 1 ...
The ships are the Henderson, Antilles, Momus and Lenape. This is the American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front order of battle. The American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) consisted of the United States Armed Forces (mostly the United States Army) that were sent to Europe in World War I to support the Allied cause against the Central Powers.
The order of battle presented here reflects a point near the end of the campaign. As with any large army organization in extended combat, forces and their assignments shifted over the course of the battle. For example, when the German attack began on 16 December, the US 7th Armored Division was assigned to XIII Corps, US Ninth Army, 12th Army ...