armed forces

collective organization of a country's armed military and paramilitary
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armed forces
F. Mitchell, Department of History, United States Military Academy · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

armed forces ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,000 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: armed organization[2], military[3], government organization[4]
  • Part of: military–industrial complex[5]
  • Commons category: Military[6]
  • Said to be the same as: military[7], troops[8]
  • Has part(s): military branch[9], branch of service[10], military unit[11], military logistics[12], rear of armed forces[13]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Military[14], Category:Military affairs[15]
  • Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[16]
  • Partially coincident with: military[17]
  • Different from: army[18], irregular military[19], military[20], former armed organization[21], Field Army[22]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[23]
  • P14870: ont00000274[24]

Why It Matters

armed forces has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . Common Core Ontologies. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5d ago · Landre89 · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → —
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn', 'bxr'
    Library of congress authority id → sh85007241, sh99002455
    Sitelink count → 79
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Library of congress authority id: sh99002455, Moving from military"
  2. 5w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-09-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14870 → ont00000274
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/53024|batch #53024]]"
  3. 7w ago · عُثمان · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00000274"
  4. 9w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-08-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → armed-forces
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||mn, hyw, crh, lmo, xmf, fo */ import labels from sitelinks"
  5. 10w ago · Infovarius · 2026-08-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → army, irregular military, military +2
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: Field Army"
  6. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004591-ozbrojene-sily
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0004591-ozbrojene-sily, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  7. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
    Said to be the same as → military, troops
    Has parts → —
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|13 */ Yso id: 11816, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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