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WikiProject Military history/Contest. The contest department of the Military history WikiProject aims to motivate increased quality in military history articles by offering a form of friendly competition for project members making improvements to them. The primary contest available is a simple rolling competition that awards points for ...
The first conflict of the First Boer War was a one-sided affair that can barely be termed a battle in terms of the contest. A blasé British commander did not consider the Boers to be able to present a threat to the men of the British Army, and was resoundingly defeated in around 15 minutes. The battle was a taste of what was to come over the ...
Apropos the structure of the article, I've tried to bear in mind the strictures on anglocentric bias found on lots of Great War pages describing British military operations, hence the semi-autonomous nature of the German sections and far fewer sources which I have to piece together.
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Neither the WikiProject Military history/Style guide nor the main Wiki MoS discusses the usage of military-rank abbreviations, but the convention of The Chicago Manual of Style is to abbreviate the rank if the person's full name follows (e.g., Lt. Col. John Smith) and to spell out the rank if only followed by the last name (e.g., Lieutenant ...
While it is not one of the project's formal guidelines, editors are encouraged to consider the advice presented here in the course of their editing work. Wikipedia has a powerful and unique role to play in recording military history. As well as pursuing high standards of accuracy, verification and neutrality, the quality of prose and formatting ...
Something that set MacArthur apart from soldiers of the mid-20th Century like Bradley, Clark and Ridgway was that where the latter saw soldiering as fighting the best army in the world in Europe, MacArthur took an expansive in which soldiers gave equal importance to military government, peacekeeping, civic disturbances and civic assistance.
