What is Military engineering?
[[Image:Engineers Pakistan.jpg|right|thumb|300px|[[Polish Armed Forces|Polish]] military engineers at work in [[Pakistan]]]] A '''military engineer''' uses his skills in construction to build many different structures for [[war|warfare]]. These different structures can be made for either offense or defense. Other jobs include building and taking apart minefields and [[bridge]]s. In some cases an [[engineering|engineer]] may have to destroy something that he has built before. This may be to stop the enemy soldiers following them across the river for example. In many armies the military engineers are also called [[combat engineer|pioneer]]s or [[sapper]]s. Today a military engineer that operates during [[battle]] is called a [[combat engineer]]. Perhaps the first people who had a special force of military engineering specialists were the [[Roman army]]. Roman military engineering was very good in its time. They were able to build a double-wall of [[fortification]]s that was thirty miles (50 km) long in total (both walls together) to [[Siege|besiege]] a city in [[Gaul]], in just six weeks. The [[design]], construction, and destroying of the works shown would be the task of a military engineer. <gallery> Image:GreatWallTower.jpg|[[Great Wall of China]] and watchtower ([[Ming Dynasty]]) Image:Tarascon Castle on the Rhône.jpg|Castle at [[Tarascon]], [[France]] Image:Trebuchet.jpg|Replica [[Trebuchet]] siege engine Image:Fortbourtange.jpg|[[Bourtange]] fortification Image:Tarascon Castle (bridge).jpg|Tarascon Castle [[moat]] Image:Cheshire Regiment trench Somme 1916.jpg|[[World War I]] trench works and [[shrapnel]] shelter Image:Mines 501556 fh000026.jpg|[[Landmine]]s (modern) </gallery> ==Related pages== * [[Fortification]] [[Category:Engineering disciplines]] [[Category:War]]