Military order may refer to:
Orders
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Military order (religious society)
A military order () is a Christianity, Christian religious society of Knight, knights. The original military orders were the Knights Templar, the Knights Hospitaller, the Order of the Holy Sepulchre (Catholic), Order of the Holy Sepulchre, the ...
, confraternity of knights originally established as religious societies during the medieval Crusades for protection of Christianity and the Catholic Church
Military organisation and terms
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Military order (instruction)
A military command or order is a binding instruction given by a senior rank to a junior rank in a military context. Not all senior ranks in all military forces have the right to give an order to all lower ranks.
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, including an individual command by an armed forces officer to a person under his command
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General order
A general order, in military and paramilitary organizations, is a published directive, originated by a commander and binding upon all personnel under his or her command. Its purpose is to enforce a policy or procedure that is not otherwise addres ...
, a published directive originated by a commander of a military organization
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Operations order
An Operation Order, often abbreviated to OPORD, is a plan format meant to assist subordinate units with the conduct of military operations. An OPORD describes the situation the unit faces, the mission of the unit, and what supporting activitie ...
, an executable plan that directs a unit on how to conduct a military operation
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Close order drill
A military parade is a formation of military personnels whose movement is restricted by close-order manoeuvering known as Drill team, drilling or marching. Large military parades are today held on major holidays and military events around the ...
, a form of military parade for ceremonial purposes
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Martial law
Martial law is the replacement of civilian government by military rule and the suspension of civilian legal processes for military powers. Martial law can continue for a specified amount of time, or indefinitely, and standard civil liberties ...
, order and security maintained by the military when government or civilian authorities fail to function effectively
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Military justice
Military justice (or military law) is the body of laws and procedures governing members of the armed forces. Many nation-states have separate and distinct bodies of law that govern the conduct of members of their armed forces. Some states us ...
or military law, a body of laws and procedures governing members of the armed forces
See also
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Order (honour)
An order is a visible honour awarded by a sovereign state, monarch, dynastic house or organisation to a person, typically in recognition of individual merit, that often comes with distinctive insignia such as collars, medals, badges, and sas ...
, a designation of merit awarded by a government, dynastic house, sovereign or organization to an individual
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Shortlex order In mathematics, and particularly in the theory of formal languages, shortlex is a total ordering for finite sequences of objects that can themselves be totally ordered. In the shortlex ordering, sequences are primarily sorted by cardinality (length ...
, a method for ordering sequences in mathematics and formal language theory.
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