Demobilization

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Demobilization

Demob redirects here. For the television series, see Demob (TV series)
Demob (TV series)

Demob was a short-lived United Kingdom comedy-drama television series, which screened for one season in 1993.The series was set in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and starred Martin Clunes and Griff Rhys Jones as two ex-army friends who decide to try to form an entertainment act, with the aim of getting work on BBC radio....
. For the British punk rock band see Demob (band)
Demob (band)

Demob are a United Kingdom punk rock band from Gloucester....
. See also D Mob
D Mob

D Mob is one of the stage names used by the United Kingdom house music Record producer, Dancin' Danny D . A United Kingdom house music crew, D Mob enjoyed a flourish of popularity in 1989 and 1990, helping to introduce that style to the mainstream, with the hit singles "We Call it Acieed" and "C'mon and Get My Love"....
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Demobilization is the process of standing down a nation's armed forces

Armed forces

The armed forces of a country are its government-sponsored defense, fighting forces, and organizations. They exist to further the foreign and domestic policies of their governing body, and to defend that body and the nation it represents from external and internal aggressors....
from combat-ready status. This may be as a result of victory in war

War

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, or because a crisis has been peacefully resolved and military force will not be necessary. The opposite of demobilization is mobilization

Mobilization

This article describes military mobilization. For other meanings, see Mobilization .Mobilization is the act of assembling and making both troops and supplies ready for war....
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In the final days of World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, for example, the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
Armed Forces developed a demobilization plan which would discharge soldiers on the basis of a point system that favored length and certain types of service.

The phrase demob happy refers to demobilization and is broadly applied to the feeling of relief at imminent release from a time-serving burden, such as a career.