Front (military)
"Battlefront" redirects here. For other uses, see Battlefront (disambiguation).
The Western Front in 1915–16
A military front or battlefront is a contested armed frontier between opposing forces. It can be a local or tactical front, or it can range to a theater. A typical front was the Western Front in France and Belgium in World War I.
- The term "home front" has been used to denote conditions in the civilian sector of a country at war, including those involved in the production of matériel.
- Both the Soviet and Polish Armies used the term "front" to mean an army group during the Polish-Soviet War and World War II. The equivalent of the term established in the header was the "Theater of military operations".
- The term "front line city" was used by the Germans during their long retreat from Moscow/Stalingrad to refer to metropolitan centres that had become disputed by the two combatants. Designation of a city as such resulted in administrative changes (largely the imposition of martial law). In the film Downfall, the term was briefly referenced.
- The term "transferred to the front" is often used by soldiers or personnel when their position has been changed from other activities.
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