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Welcome to the National militaries task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below. The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here. Scope This task force includes the core articles which cover currently operational national armed forces (e.g. the United States Armed Forces) and their individual service branches (e.g. the Russian Navy). Countries and branches no longer in existence are not currently included. Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding National-task-force=yes or National=y to the {{WPMILHIST}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:National militaries task force articles.

Participants

If you approach anyone from this list for advice or help, please check their contributions first to check if they've edited recently. This list may contain people who have not edited Wikipedia in a long time.

1. Buckshot06 (talk · contribs) (sub-Saharan Africa, former Soviet Union, Indonesia)
2. DPdH (talk · contribs) (focus on Latin America and Australasia)
3. Swatjester (talk · contribs) (for U.S. military and Ethiopian military, as well as SOF around the world.)
4. Tyguy9112 (talk · contribs)

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Article statistics

The table to the right shows the current article assessment statistics for this task force. A list of the top 500 most popular articles within our scope, as well as the number of page views each article received over the past month, can be found here. With most of our articles assessed as Stub- or Start-Class, there's a lot of work to be done. However, we also have a number of good, A-Class, and featured articles, which have been assessed as amongst the best Wikipedia has to offer. These article serve as a yardstick for what can be achieved and should be aimed for, and can provide ideas about how to write an article and what sources to consult; they are listed below: Featured articles 23rd (Northumbrian) Division Apollo 11 Australian Defence Force Divisional Cavalry Regiment (New Zealand) History of the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Army Siege of Utica Territorial Force Timor-Leste Defence Force George Washington Featured lists List of sovereign states without armed forces A-Class articles 1st Armoured Division (United Kingdom) 11th Airborne Division 45th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) Armed Forces of Liberia No. 3 Commando Good articles 1st Armoured Division (United Kingdom) 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (United States) 6th Delaware Infantry Regiment 11th Airborne Division 15th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom) 20th Engineer Brigade (United States) 45th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) 47th Infantry Regiment (United States) 82nd Sustainment Brigade 515 North Washington Street Anti-nuclear movement in Australia Assassin's mace Australian Army Reserve Benin Air Force Justiniano Borgoño British Army Canadian peacekeeping Croatian National Guard Dušan the Mighty (paramilitary) Enlargement of NATO Federated Legion of Women First Australian Imperial Force Operation Harvest Festival History of the United States Navy Iga–Kōka alliance Iga ikki Kōka ikki May 1995 Pale air strikes Military Staff Committee HMS Mystic (1915) No. 4 Commando Roman invasion of Africa (204–201 BC) SSK 90 helmet Ottoman destroyer Samsun Schutzstaffel Scottish invasion of England (1648) Titina Silá Ottoman destroyer Yarhisar Ottoman minelayer Intibah

National militaries task force assessment statistics Articles Lists FA 8 FL 1 A 5 AL 0 GA 35     B 632 BL 14 C 2,176 CL 73 Start 3,366 List 267 Stub 998     Total 7,220 Total 355 Other pages Category 0 Disambig 0 Draft 0 File 0 Portal 0 Project 0 Redirect 0 SIA 3 Template 0 User 0 Total 3 Unassessed 7 Statistics ω 35,162 Ω 4.642 category

Open tasks

Attention needed

...to referencing and citation (4,033) • ...to coverage and accuracy (3,471) • ...to structure (531) • ...to grammar (176) • ...to supporting materials (893)

Popular pages

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Requested articles

Finnish 19th Division • Finnish 11th Division • Finnish Cavalry Brigade • 1st Jaeger Brigade • 2nd Jaeger Brigade • 168th Rifle Division • 71st Rifle Division • Lifeguard Horse Grenadier Regiment • 4th Mariupol Hussar Regiment • 6th Guards Mechanized Brigade

Expansion needed

Citizen Force (South Africa) • Zimbabwe Defence Forces • Military of Nigeria • Korean People's Army • Navy Aviation Command • 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade • 12th Territorial Defence Brigade (Poland) • 7th Infantry Division (Bangladesh) • Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade

Images needed

Citizen Force (South Africa)

Merging needed

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Citations needed

Air Force of Serbia and Montenegro • Air Force of Zimbabwe • Coast Guard Command (Turkey) • Gendarmerie General Command • Indonesian National Armed Forces • Irish Army • National Guard of the United States • New Zealand Army • Turkish Armed Forces • Zimbabwe National Army • 1st Aviation Brigade

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Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 22 Jul 2025 – Battle of Phagwara (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by ZDRX (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 13 Jul 2025 – Space Division (Sweden) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Cloventt (t · c); see discussion (5 participants; relisted)

Good article nominees

• 13 May 2025 – Joint Geological and Geophysical Research Station (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Very Polite Person (t · c); start discussion

Articles to be merged

• 08 Jul 2025 – Frontenac Regiment (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 33rd Medium Artillery Regiment, RCA by Indefatigable (t · c); see discussion
• 27 Jun 2025 – Spain–NATO 5% military spending conflict (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Agreement on 5% NATO defence spending by 2035 by Dajasj (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 09 Feb 2025 – Desertion (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Just-a-can-of-beans (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Mar 2022 – Structure of the Swiss Armed Forces (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Gusfriend (t · c); see discussion

Resources

• CIA World Factbook - Very useful for filling in the national military infobox

• Scramble.nl Dutch Aviation Society website - Detailed orders of battle of modern air forces

• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute website - Summaries of the SIPRI Yearbook and databases of conflicts, military spending and arms production

• United Nations peacekeeping home page - Information on current and past UN peace keeping missions

• United States military Defense Visual Information Center - Photos of the US military and foreign militaries. All photos are in the public domain and can be used freely on Wikipedia.