Articles of War
Americannoun
plural noun
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the disciplinary and legal procedures by which the naval and military forces of Great Britain were bound before the 19th century
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the regulations of the US army, navy, and air force until the Uniform Code of Military Justice replaced them in 1951
Example Sentences
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The historical record shows that American lawmakers have understood regular forces to mean “the standing army” since 1776, when the Continental Congress set forth the Articles of War.
From Slate
Power infrastructure has long been considered a valid military objective as long as it supports an enemy army’s activities, even if the system also supports the civilian population, writes military law expert Michael Schmitt in the Articles of War blog run by the Lieber Institute for Law & Warfare at the United States Military Academy West Point.
From Reuters
Power infrastructure has long been considered a valid military objective as long as it supports an enemy army's activities, even if the system also supports the civilian population, writes military law expert Michael Schmitt in the Articles of War blog run by the Lieber Institute for Law & Warfare at the United States Military Academy West Point.
From Reuters
A series of provisions on offer in the House-passed version of this year’s annual defense authorization bill would require a web of overlapping reports from the Pentagon and the inspectors general who police transfers of articles of war, plus the establishment of a task force to design and implement enhanced tracking measures.
From Washington Post
Meeting that responsibility would naturally mean using air transport to deliver “huge quantities of men, food, ammunition, tanks, gasoline, oil and thousands of other articles of war to a number of widely separated places on the face of the earth.”
From Salon
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