Military
Articles about armed forces, warfare and military history.
Partisan
Patrouille de France
Patrouille de France (PAF): France’s national aerobatic team
Peninsula Campaign
Peninsula Campaign (March–July 1862): Union advance on Richmond
Pennsylvania rifle
Pennsylvania rifle (Kentucky rifle): design, history, and legacy
Pentagon Papers
People's Liberation Army
People's Liberation Army (PLA)
Personal defense weapon
Personal defense weapon (PDW): definitions, design, history and use
Peshmerga
Petty officer
Pfalz D.III
Pfalz D.III: German World War I Single-Seat Fighter
Phalanx formation
Pike (weapon)
Pilum
Pincer movement
Pincer movement (double envelopment): tactic, history, and modern use
Pipe bomb
Piracy in the Caribbean
Piracy in the Caribbean: history, practices, and legacy
Pistol
Pistol: definition, parts, history, operation and uses
PK machine gun
PK (Kalashnikov) general-purpose machine gun
Plate armour
Plate armour: construction, history, and uses
Platoon
Polearm
Police action
Polish–Soviet War
Polish–Soviet War (1919–1921)
A post‑World War I conflict between Poland and Soviet states over control of territories in present‑day Ukraine and Belarus, culminating in the 1921 Peace of Riga and shaping inter
Political general
Polygar Wars
Polygar Wars (Palayakkarar Wars): South Indian Resistance, c.1799–1802
Port Arthur
Portuguese Colonial War
Powder monkey
Powder monkey: youth who supplied gunpowder aboard sailing warships
PPSh-41
PPSh-41: Soviet World War II submachine gun
Praetorian Guard
Preemptive war
Preemptive War: Definition, Criteria, History, and Legal Debate
Presidency armies
Prisoner of war
Prisoner of War (POW): Definition, History, Rights and Treatment
Private (rank)
Private (military rank)
Private First Class
Private First Class (PFC)
Privateer
Privateer (state‑commissioned maritime raider)
Proxy war
Psychological warfare
PT boat
PT boat (Patrol Torpedo boat)
Pump action shotgun
Pump-action shotgun: design, history, and common uses
Purple Heart
Pyrrhic victory
Pyrrhic victory: costly win with damaging consequences
Quartermaster
Quasi-War
Quds Force
Quds Force: Iran's Extraterritorial Operations Branch of the IRGC
Radar jamming
Raid
Raid (military attack)
Railway gun
Railway gun (railroad artillery)