This dimension names the war that a specific military operation was part of. Wikipedia notes that military operations are "often known for their more generally accepted common usage names than their actual operational objectives," names that usually identify the wider war the operation belongs to. Browsing this way collects every operation carried out as part of the same war.
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War
Sources
1. War and Military Atlas Periodization (Ruling 761)
InteractiveAtlas owner ruling registerWar and Military DataBrief, SubLabel convention paragraph, boundaries sentence
Boundaries: Ancient below 500 CE, Medieval 500 to 1499, Early Modern 1500 to 1774, Modern 1775 onward (the 1775 cutover, not the round year 1800, matches the American Revolutionary War already being tagged Modern in the live data).
War and Military DataBrief, structure wave 0901 paragraph, military-operation Modern-narrowed-to-pre-1945 sentence
this wave adds a fifth SubLabel value used only by this type, Contemporary, covering 1945 onward, with Modern for military-operation narrowed to pre-1945 only.
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