The force was named after its commander, the Australian Major General Iven Mackay, who deployed his headquarters in Perdika.

A force was assembled and named the Kabul Field Force, under the command of major-general Frederick Roberts.

The force was later expanded to two companies and named the Taranaki Bush Rangers.

These forces could not be named; not headless horseman, not howling werewolf or grinning vampire.

By 1912, this deflecting force was named the Coriolis effect.

This force is named after Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis and George Gabriel Stokes, two nineteenth-century scientists.

German armed forces were named the Wehrmacht from 1935 to 1945.

The force was named after the biblical judge Gideon, who defeated a large force with a tiny band.

Magnetomotive force is so named because it plays a role in magnetic circuits analogous to that of electromotive force (voltage) in electric circuits.

The restructured fighting force, established by law on 15 February, was named the 'New Model Army'.