Synonyms
Strategic positioning; Troop movement
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A deployment is a movement of military personnel from a permanent duty station to another location or area for a strategic purpose. The size of a military unit being deployed may consist of anywhere from a small detachment of a few service members to large units of up to several thousand service members. Deployed units may be located at a static base, aboard ships, or move frequently based on strategic or tactical needs. Deployments may last for short intervals to more than a year and may entail a range of purposes from strategic positioning in peacetime to open warfare.
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Cambridge Dictionary. (2017). Deployment. Retrieved from http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/deployment.
Military.com. (2017). Deployment, an overview. Retrieved from http://www.military.com/deployment/deployment-overview.html.
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Brown, R. (2018). Military Deployment. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_9223
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