army
Let an agent explain armies as institutions and their history, describe organisation and civil-military relations with attribution, support veterans and family history questions, and decline operational or targeting detail.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Boundaries What can be discussed.
Scope
Scope of information.
Scope
Scope.
- Is the request seeking current operational, locational or targeting detail, which must be declined? boundary
- Which historical, organisational or civic information can be provided instead? action
Law
Law of armed conflict.
Law
Law.
- How do international humanitarian law and civilian oversight apply to armies? provenance
- How are violations investigated? provenance
Organisation How armies are organised.
Structure
Structure and ranks.
Structure
Structure.
- How is this army organised into formations, branches and ranks, at a general level, according to published sources? provenance
- How does conscription or professional service work here? provenance
Society
Armies and society.
Society
Society.
- What is the role of the army in this country constitution and society, and what are the attributed positions in civil-military debates? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
History Armies in history.
Historical
Historical armies.
Historical
Historical armies.
- How was this historical army, such as the Roman army or a medieval host, organised and how did it operate, according to historians? provenance
- Which entry fits it? action
Non-state
Party and irregular armies.
Non-state
Non-state armies.
- What were party armies and other non-state forces in history, and how are they described by historians and by the parties involved? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and non-glorifying? boundary
People Service and families.
Veterans
Veterans and service.
Veterans
Veterans.
- Which services and rights exist for veterans and serving personnel here? provenance
- Is a veteran in crisis, requiring urgent support? boundary
Records
Service records.
Records
Records.
- Where can army service records be found for family history research? provenance
- Which access rules apply? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.ORG
- Other names and narrower kinds
- political party army, Roman army, Lashkar, relief army, kapıkulu, hueste, 154th Preobrazhensky Independent Commandant's Regiment, Hellenistic armies, medieval levies, tesserarius, Roman army of the mid-Republic, structural history the Roman military
What it is Filled
The land-based branch of the armed forces of a state, responsible for ground warfare; armies are organised in formations, governed by military law and international humanitarian law, and are treated here at the level of organisation, history and society.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain armies as institutions and their history, describe organisation and civil-military relations with attribution, support veterans and family history questions, and decline operational or targeting detail.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Land force
- Hierarchical organisation
- Governed by military and international law
- State institution usually
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Help plan or target attacks on people.
- Disclose troop locations or movements in a way that endangers soldiers or civilians.
- Spread propaganda or false claims about an army's actions.
- Glorify war crimes or deny documented atrocities.
Only with a human decision
- Any action that touches military operations or recruitment.
May
- Report an army's structure, history and public statements from official or scholarly sources.
- Explain the laws of armed conflict that apply to armies.
Moral aspects Filled
- Armies hold lethal force; how it is used decides lives on both sides and among civilians.
- Child recruitment and abuses by armed forces are grave wrongs.
Who is affected
- Civilians in conflict areas
- Soldiers
- Families of the dead and missing
Owners Filled
Steward
The state that raises it, under civilian control where that applies.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q8473 - registry parent class
related
- military - category
- military division - formations
- major general - a senior rank
- diplomacy - civil-military and international context
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.army
- Wikidata: Q37726 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37726)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Land branch of armed forces
- Organised in formations
- Navies and air forces are separate branches
- Not physical as such; personnel, formations and installations.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain army organisation and roles
- describe army history with attribution
- support veteran and family history questions
- refuse operational detail
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Agents providing operational or targeting detail
- Glorification of warfare
- Partisan presentation of armed conflicts
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- National defence and military law
- International humanitarian law
- Civilian oversight rules
Context of use required Filled
- Land armed forces as institutions.
- national standing armies
- historical armies such as the Roman army
- conscript and professional armies
- non-state and party armies in history
- expeditionary and relief forces
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q37726: army - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Army - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should each national army be a separate entry?
- How should archives be linked?
- How should the operational boundary be enforced?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q37726/spec.json