Front (military)

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 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" meaning an army group during the Polish-Soviet War and World War II.

See also

• Front line