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English
Noun
military exercise (plural military exercises)
- A large-scale activity involving military forces from multiple countries or commands, designed to demonstrate the level of alliance between those forces and their ability to coordinate, as a signal to potential military adversaries.
2005, Chookiat Panaspornprasit, US-Kuwaiti Relations, 1961-1992: An Uneasy Relationship, page 136:Another major military exercise, codenamed Operation Intrinsic Action held in August 1992, involved the participation of 2400 US troops from the First Cavalry Division at Ford Hood, Texas and members of the Fifth Special Forces Group from Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
1997, David R. McCann, Korea Briefing: Toward Reunification, page 34:In the first months of 1993 the situation worsened as the United States and South Korea resumed their annual Team Spirit military exercise (canceled in 1992) and North Korea announced its intention to withdraw from the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
1994, Raymond L. Garthoff, The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War, page 138:In early November the United States and its NATO allies carried out an unusually extensive and high-level military exercise, called Able Archer 83, testing the command and communications procedures for the release and use of nuclear weapons in case of war.
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war game
- Arabic: مُنَاوَرَة عَسْكَرِيَّة f (munāwara ʕaskariyya)
- Armenian: զորավարժություն (hy) (zoravaržutʻyun)
- Belarusian: вайско́выя вучэ́нні n pl (vajskóvyja vučénni)
- Bulgarian: вое́нни уче́ния n pl (voénni učénija)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 軍事演習/军事演习 (zh) (jūnshì yǎnxí), 軍演/军演 (zh) (jūnyǎn)
- Czech: vojenské cvičení n pl
- Danish: militærøvelse c
- Dutch: militaire oefening f
- Finnish: sotaharjoitus (fi)
- French: grandes manœuvres f pl, exercices militaires m pl
- German: Kriegsübung f, Manöver (de) n pl, Militärübung f
- Hebrew: תַּרְגִּיל צְבָאִי (he) m (targíl ts'va'í)
- Hindi: सैन्य अभ्यास m (sainya abhyās)
- Hungarian: hadgyakorlat (hu)
- Japanese: 軍事演習 (ぐんじえんしゅう, gunji enshū)
- Korean: 군사연습(軍事演習) (gunsayeonseup), 군사련습(軍事演習) (gunsaryeonseup) (North Korea)
- Macedonian: воена вежба (voena vežba)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: militærøvelse m, militærøving m or f
- Nynorsk: militærøving f
- Persian: رزمایش (fa) (razmâyeš)
- Polish: ćwiczenia wojskowe n pl
- Russian: вое́нные уче́ния n pl (vojénnyje učénija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: војна вежба f, војна вјежба f
- Roman: vojna vežba f, vojna vježba f
- Slovak: vojenské cvičenia n pl
- Slovene: vojaške vaje f pl
- Spanish: ejercicio militar m, maniobra militar f
- Swedish: militärövning (sv) c
- Ukrainian: військове́ навча́ння n pl (vijsʹkové navčánnja), військо́ве навча́ння n pl (vijsʹkóve navčánnja)
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