What is "demobilizing"

Usage examples of "demobilizing".

He 'was not unaccustomed to command, for quick upon the heels of his impulsive enlistment in the American Expeditionary Force in 1917, he had become a sergeant, and in France had won a battlefield commission, demobilizing as a captain.

Indeed, some defense savings had been effected by demobilizing units and mothballing ships and planes.

I can just see him quietly going back to Al Kebir, demobilizing his army and waiting for the gold to arrive.

There is no indication, for example, that they are demobilizing their conscripts who are at the end of their enlistment periods, nor any evidence of preparations for the new 'class' of conscripts that should have begun to arrive several days ago.