This is the Armed Forces web portal for the Mid West Law Tutorial Website. Armed Forces has specific meaning and it would take a thesaurus to explain all the different meanings and contexts in that term. The explainations would have a high likelyhood of becoming a multi-volume book set, encyclopedia, or dictionary reference set.
To simplify, armed forces is a new term that can include law enforcement in some countries because they have a firearm and they work in a group. But, most often law enforcement and government administrators are considered civilians. Even if they are armed; unless, firearms aren’t allowed for any civilians, which is a law in various nations.
In the most up to date sense, armed forces refers to what was formally known as military and military targets. This is because, the word military, has its origins in groups of 1,000. Because a modern military often operates in groups of over 100,000,000 if necessary, the term has become dated. For example, a 4 star general is often thought to command up to 400,000 soldiers in a combat operation. While 100 million soldiers seems absurd; China, India, and Africa have a combined population of over 4 billion people. They aren’t necessary combined forces or allies but a lot has changed with militaries over a recent time period.
Armed Forces then means specifically, approved and authorized soldiers belonging to a specific nation or to the UN; and military can be a combat unit of up to 1,000. For example, there are militaries present; or the military is here.
Its important to know and understand these distinctions and how it affects civilians because under any circumstance that a military is present and engaged in hostilities or conflict, civilians should make themselves known as a civilian and non-involved in any conflict.
The armed forces web portal for the Midwest Law Tutorial website will cover various contexts of military involvement in civilian areas or nearby; and what the goals and behaviours should be for civilians.
It will also cover basic contexts of recruitment, retirement, and living among civilians with injuries and what to do when a military is in civilian areas but not necessarily involved in any conflict or disturbing any civilian lives or day to day civilian activities.
The website will be done in the most basic level covering only what is necessary to facilitate communications with civilians on expected behaviours when militaries are present in an area.
There will be references to other sites that cover more complex topics for those who have decided to join or are in the process of making a decision and may want to return to civlian areas one day, and for those who are working on with military officers on restoring the day to day lives civilians in areas that have been affected by conflict.
Most of the site information will remain basic, and the referenced material will be current as 2024 to 2032 but eventually the correct authority for things pertaining to militaries will be unknown except for people who have completed a boot camp process. The goal is for civilians to understand how to survive in a world without a military.