| GENERAL | The chief commander of an army in service (7) |
| GENERALISSIMO | The chief commander of an army; Commander in Chief |
| ADMIRAL | The chief commander of a navy (7) |
| GENERALS | Commanders of an army (8) |
| CENTURION | Commander of an ancient Roman group of a hundred men (9) |
| AF | The chief commander of a navy (abbr) (2) |
| CANONIC | Chief commander soon to be imprisoned according to the law (7) |
| RETREAT | Pull back, as an army in battle |
| CAVALRY | Name the units of an army which in the past were mounted on horseback (7) |
| PIONEER | From "pawn", a word for a foot soldier, going in advance of an army to prepare the way originally, thus an explorer, founder, groundbreaker, leader, pathfinder, settler, trailblazer or other person wh |
| OUTPOST | Military station at a distance from the main body of an army, typically in a remote or sparsely populated location (7) |
| BRIGADE | Subdivision of an army, consisting of some infantry battalions (7) |
| UNIFORM | Clothing of a fixed style worn by each member of an army, hospital, school or other organised body (7) |
| SOLDIER | A member of an army (7) |
| CORPSES | Part of an army at intervals sees dead bodies (7) |
| ADMIRALS | Chief commanders of a navy (8) |
| THEDRAGONSTEETH | When scattered these don't gather an army in myth (3,7,5) |
| DESERT | Absent without leave from an army in the Sahara, say (6) |
| ARNIE | He led an army in the PGA |
| REARS | Brings up half an army in reserves! |
