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Military engineering is loosely defined as the art and practice of designing and building military works and maintaining lines of military transport and communications. Military engineers are also responsible for logistics behind military tactics. Modern military engineering differs from civil engineering. In the 20th and 21st centuries, military engineering also includes other engineering disciplines such as mechanical and electrical engineering techniques.
According to NATO, "military engineering is that engineer activity undertaken, regardless of component or service, to shape the physical operating environment. Military engineering incorporates support to maneuver and to the force as a whole, including military engineering functions such as engineer support to force protection, counter-improvised explosive devices, environmental protection, engineer intelligence and military search. Military engineering does not encompass the activities undertaken by those 'engineers' who maintain, repair and operate vehicles, vessels, aircraft, weapon systems and equipment."
Military engineering is an important academic subject taught in military academies or schools of military engineering. The construction and demolition tasks related to military engineering are usually performed by military engineers including soldiers trained as sappers or pioneers. In modern armies, soldiers trained to perform such tasks while well forward in battle and under fire are often called combat engineers.
In some countries, military engineers may also perform non-military construction tasks in peacetime such as flood control and river navigation works, but such activities do not fall within the scope of military engineering.
Usage examples of "military engineering".
While the arts and sciences were not totally neglected, our schooling was heavy on strategy, tactics, military history, and military engineering.
Constructed of thick concrete, and equipped with theoretically bombproof doors, it clashed architecturally with the Chancellery Building, but aesthetics had to give way to practical military engineering when the lives of the Fiihrer and his closest advisers were at stake.
This road was a triumph of nineteenth-century military engineering - the work of the last colonial power, built in the final campaign against the proud mountain folk of the interior.
Andrew Jackson Jefferson, C-in-C Military Engineering Division - whose men actually built and serviced the wagon-trains, and Zachary Taylor Jefferson, current Head of the Design Bureau of MED - which had originally created the wagon-train and was still engaged in a rolling programme of modifications and improvements.
This gentleman is known to be well skilled in fortification, gunnery, and military engineering generally.
Here and there along the wayside were posters forbidding trespass in the name of military engineering.
This inner gate was a miracle of military engineering, built around an inner drawbridge, with a portcullis at either end, and openings above allowing all manner of noxious substances to be poured over intruders.
The advantages of the imperial troops on many worlds lay sometimes in little more than military engineering, discipline, and tactics.
The handful of brush and stone huts grouped around the half-ruined watchtower and the wall of loose stones were their own additions-neither displaying any great skill in military engineering.
Then, when your mother told me about the invasion and that she had no idea what you were planning, I thought I had best wait in case you needed some military engineering done.