Military order may refer to:
Orders
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Military order (religious society), 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 have the right to give an order to all lower ranks.George Breckenridge Davis, ''A Treatise ...
, 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 unique to the unit's situatio ...
, a published directive originated by a commander of a military organization
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Operations order, 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 soldiers whose movement is restricted by close-order manoeuvering known as drilling or marching. The military parade is now almost entirely ceremonial, though soldiers from time immemorial up until the lat ...
, a form of military parade for ceremonial purposes
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Martial law
Martial law is the imposition of direct military control of normal civil functions or suspension of civil law by a government, especially in response to an emergency where civil forces are overwhelmed, or in an occupied territory.
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, order and security maintained by the military when government or civilian authorities fail to function effectively
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Military justice or military law, a body of laws and procedures governing members of the armed forces
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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 sashes ...
, a designation of merit awarded by a government, dynastic house, sovereign or organization to an individual
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