War party
As the warring parties are called the States , which face each other in a violent confrontation and to the declared war have.
The war between only two warring factions who are facing each other is the exception. Warring parties then alliance with other states or join them, so that several warring parties are on the respective side.
In the First World War , for example, Germany and Austria-Hungary fought as Central Powers on the one hand and as Entente Great Britain , France and Russia on the other hand as warring parties.
During the Second World War , the Axis powers Germany, Italy and Japan on the one hand, the Allies USA , the Soviet Union , Great Britain and France faced each other.
Grazing party
Before 1900, small detachments of light cavalry , mostly for the purpose of a combat patrol (cf. partisan ) , were called strife parties (also: parties for short ).
