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Force Type

This dimension sorts armed forces by their basic type, an army, a navy, an air force or a coast guard. Wikipedia notes that a military "may consist of one or more military branches such as an army, navy, air force, space force, marines, or coast guard." Browsing by force type keeps forces of the same kind grouped together.

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Earliest Era Represented

Ancient 1

Force Type

Aerial warfare service of the People's Liberation Army

Air arm of the German Wehrmacht

Air arm of the Indian Armed Forces

Air service branch of the United States Armed Forces

Armed forces

Armed forces of Mexico in two independent branches

Army

Army and navy (land and naval forces)

Camel-mounted Berber tribal army

Combined armed forces of Argentina

Decimal-organized mounted army (minqan/jaghun/arban units)

Elite heavy shock cavalry recruited from the Polish nobility

Expeditionary force

Imperial army

Infantry

Land army

Land forces of the Russian Armed Forces

Land-based strategic missile force

Maritime service branch of the People's Liberation Army

Maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces

Military wing of the Chinese Communist Party

Mixed regular and mamluk (slave-soldier) army

Mongol cavalry (horsemen)

Multiethnic mercenary and allied army with elephant corps

Multinational corps-organized field army

National military force

Naval arm of the Russian Armed Forces

Naval branch of the Indian Armed Forces

Naval infantry: amphibious and expeditionary landing force

Navy

Paramilitary combat branch of the SS

Principal ground force of Austria-Hungary

Professional army

Royal and paramilitary army

Space service branch of the United States Armed Forces

standing army

standing army (provisional volunteer force)

standing army (reformed European-style force after 1826)

standing army with Cossack and Muslim auxiliary troops

standing army with volunteer and conscripted units

Strategic and tactical missile force

Strategic missile force

Tri-service defence force of Australia

Unified armed forces of Canada

Unified armed forces of Finland

Unified armed forces of France

Unified armed forces of Spain

Unified armed forces of the Russian Federation

Unified armed forces of the Soviet state

Unified national armed forces of six services