Divisions
Formations and divisions are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Formations" instead a noun "Divisions".
Formations
Divisions and formations are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Divisions" instead a noun "Formations".
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- Marshal Victor Francois, Duke of Broglie, one of the more successful French commanders who was one of the first to organize his forces into permanent divisions instead of ever-changing ad hoc formations.
Source: Useful Notes / Seven Years' War -
Badass Bureaucrat: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars saw a major shift from the professional armies of the ancien régime to mass armies raised by conscription, which also introduced tactics using larger permanent formations like divisions, army corps and massed batteries.
- Since NATO doctrine was to go for the unit commanders first, by mid-war many of the leading Soviet formations were led by junior officers who were field-promoted out of necessity—thus, captains leading battalions, majors leading regiments, and colonels leading entire divisions were not uncommon.
Source: Field Promotion
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