Mobilization

Mobilization means the preparation of the armed forces of a State on the use, mostly for war. Existing active and semi-active military units are mobilized (ie made ​​" movable " ): You will be able to leave their peacetime locations to perform combat operations in the field can. So far, no active units such as for replenishing be reorganized.

The withdrawal of the mobilization is demobilization.

Types of mobilization

In a general mobilization of all forces will be mobilized at a partial mobilization only a part of the armed forces.

With a mobilization of the active units are often reinforced and resourced. In the army the mobilization of reservists was referred to as " personnel mobilization" and the requisition of civilian equipment (especially motor vehicles and special machines ) as "material Mob Supplement".

The mobilization can be done overtly or covertly.

Historical examples

Mobilizations had, for example, during the July crisis in 1914 aggravating: None of the interested Powers thought he could dispense with an early mobilization; mobilization contributed to an escalation of the crisis.

Newspapers confirm the extra leaves from the previous day on the morning of 2 August 1914

Poster with the notice of the French general mobilization on land and at sea from Sunday, August 2, 1914

Excerpt German soldiers from their garrison town, August 1914

The GDR as the westernmost country and as a front-line state of the Warsaw Pact had a particularly elaborate infrastructure for rapid mobilization: Combat Groups, military sports in the context of military training and much more, see also mobilization divisions ( NVA). 1977 tested the GDR a new mobilization system and the paramilitary combat groups were upgraded to enhance the combat readiness of the NVA.