Front (military)

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"Battlefront" redirects here. For , see .

A military front or battlefront is a contested armed frontier between opposing forces. This can be a local or tactical front, or it can range to a theater. A typical front was the Western Front which was along the French-German border 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 war matériel.
During the Polish-Soviet War and World War II, the Soviet Army used the term "front" to designate an army group.

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