Phalanx (disambiguation)

The phalanx is a rectangular mass military formation.

Phalanx may also refer to:

Military

 * Phalanx CIWS, a U.S. Navy defense system to protect against an anti-ship missile
 * Royal Phalanx, a special military unit formed of veterans of the Greek War of Independence

Politics

 * North American Phalanx, a utopian community in New Jersey, organized on proto-communist Fourierist principles, or its journal The Phalanx
 * The Spanish Falange
 * Falangism, ideology of the above
 * Falanga National Radical Camp/RNR-Falanga/ONR-Falanga - Polish extreme right party
 * The Lebanese Kataeb Party

Places

 * Phalanx, New Jersey, an unincorporated area within Colts Neck Township, New Jersey
 * Phalanx, Ohio, an unincorporated community
 * Phalanx Mountain, a summit in British Columbia

Arts and literature

 * Phalanx (art group), an artistic movement formed in Munich in 1901
 * Phalanx (comics), a species of villainous mechanical aliens in Marvel Comics
 * The Phalanx, a Fourierist journal
 * Phalanx, a journal published by the Military Operations Research Society
 * Phalanx, the name of the false zombie proof drug in the novel by Max Brooks, World War Z
 * The Phalanx Nations, a terrorist organization in the young adult novel, The Prophet of Yonwood
 * Phalanx, a 2012 Warhammer 40,000 novel

Music

 * Phalanx (album), a 1983 live album by Australian surf rock band, Australian Crawl
 * Phalanx, a trance music group formed by Dennis Gertner, DJ Manian, and Manuel Schleis
 * Phalanx (band), a jazz music group

Medicine

 * Phalanx bone, the bones that form fingers and toes

Video games

 * The fictional secret anti-alien invasion force the player commands in the fanmade UFO: Alien Invasion game, an open-source project in the X-COM tradition.
 * Phalanx (video game), a Super NES and Game Boy Advance video game.
 * The 13th Colossus from the video game Shadow of the Colossus.
 * The first Demon (boss) in the PS3 game Demon's Souls.
 * The nemesis of the protagonist in the Super NES game Demon's Crest.
 * A Cabal enemy type from the video game Destiny.
 * The standard ancient defensive unit in the Civilization series.

Other uses

 * Phalanx (mythology), a figure in Greek mythology
 * Phalanx (honor society), the seniors honor society at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. There is a similarly named society at Clarkson University.
 * Phalanstère, a building layout developed by utopian socialist Charles Fourier
 * Phalanx (horse), American Champion racehorse
 * The falanges (legions of spirits) of the Brazilian Umbanda religion
 * Phalanx Family Ties, a street family in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit