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military campaign
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large scale, long duration, significant military strategy plan
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- Subclass of
- armed conflict
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- Category:Military campaigns
- Commons category
- Military campaigns
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- different from
- campaign
- P8168
- firebreak
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Encyclopedic overview
A military campaign is large-scale long-duration significant military strategy plan incorporating a series of interrelated military operations or battles forming a distinct part of a larger conflict often called a war. The term derives from the plain of Campania, a place of annual wartime operations by the armies of the Roman Republic.
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