Military parity

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Military parity denotes either

  • a (desired) military balance in the sense of a balance of power or a stalemate
  • or the equal composition of military units and institutions from different groups.

Often times, peacekeeping troops or armistice commissions are made up of equal numbers from the conflicting parties to pacify border warfare or civil war areas . But it can also be mixed units of allied states, such as the Franco-German Brigade .

Tschynggys Aitmatow described an unusual but fictional case of military parity in his novella "A Day Longer Than Life" (alternatively: The day goes the century, Russian: I Dol'she Veka Dlitsia Den ', English: The Day Lasts Longer than a Hundred Years) during the Cold War: the USA and the Soviet Union share a common aircraft carrier called "Parity", all command posts are equally manned or duplicated.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine demanded the equal division of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet and a share of 50 percent of the warships. As an alternative, military parity with Russia was practiced for a while, that is, the Black Sea Fleet was jointly managed until an agreement on the division and dissolution was reached in 1997. Ukraine received 28 percent.

See also

Fleet conference