Military vs Commando - What's the difference?
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Characteristic of members of the armed forces.
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(lb) Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished from civilians or police forces).
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Relating to war.
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Relating to armies or ground forces.
Armed forces.
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A small fighting force specially trained for making quick destructive raids against enemy-held areas.
* 1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 89:
A commando trooper
(historical) An organized force of Boer troops in South Africa; a raid by such troops
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As nouns the difference between military and commando
is that military is armed forces while commando is a small fighting force specially trained for making quick destructive raids against enemy-held areas.As an adjective military
is characteristic of members of the armed forces.military
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Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en-noun)Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}
See also
* martial * abbreviation: * army/Army * navy/Navy * air force/Air Force * marines/Marines * Merchant Marine * US National Guard * Coast GuardStatistics
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*commando
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Noun
(wikipedia commando) (en-noun)- The most important objective was at Batna itself, where a group of three commandos each comprising ten men was to attack Deleplanque's sub-prefecture [...].