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mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | List of military tactics | General: Exploiting prevailing weather – the tactical use of weather as a force multiplier has influenced many important battles throughout history, such as the Battle of Waterloo.
Fire attacks – reconnaissance by fire is used by apprehensive soldiers when they suspect the enemy is nearby.
Force concentration – the pra... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Aerial bomb | Bomb types: Aerial bombs include a vast range and complexity of designs. These include unguided gravity bombs, guided bombs, bombs hand-tossed from a vehicle, bombs needing a large specially-built delivery-vehicle, bombs integrated with the vehicle itself (such as a glide bomb), instant-detonation bombs, or delay-actio... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Aerial warfare | History: The history of aerial warfare began in ancient times, with the use of man-carrying kites in Ancient China. In the third century it progressed to balloon warfare. Airships (notably zeppelins) served in military use in the early years of the 20th century.
Heavier-than-air airplanes first went to war in the Italo... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Air assault | Organization and employment: Air assault and air mobility are related concepts. However, air assault is distinctly a combat insertion rather than transportation to an area in the vicinity of combat.
Air assault units can vary in organization; using helicopters not only in transport but also as close air fire support, m... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Air assault | By the time the war in Algeria had ended, eight officers and 23 non-commissioned officers from ALAT had died in the course of their duties.
Vietnam War: U.S. Army CH-21 helicopter transports arrived in South Vietnam on 11 December 1961. Air assault operations using Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) troops began 1... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Air assault | Variants of the air mobile warfare tactics used in Africa included the Rhodesian Fireforce and the Portuguese heliborne-horseborne forces cooperation.
Bangladesh Liberation War (1971): Meghna Heli Bridge was an aerial operation of Indian and Bangladeshi allied forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. It to... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Air combat manoeuvring | Historical overview: Military aviation originated in World War I when aircraft were initially used to spot enemy troop concentrations, field gun positions, and movements. Early aerial combat consisted of aviators shooting at one another with hand-held weapons. The first recorded aircraft to be shot down by another airc... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Air force | History:
Heavier-than-air military aircraft: The first aviation force in the world was the Aviation Militaire of the French Army formed in 1910, which eventually became l'Armée de l'Air. In 1911, during the Italo-Turkish War, Italy employed aircraft for the first time ever in the world for reconnaissance and bombing ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Air force | Infantry: Air assault and Airborne infantry, such as the Royal Air Force Regiment, Royal Australian Air Force Airfield Defense Guards, RNZAF Security Forces, and the US Air Force Security Forces, are used primarily for ground-based defence of air bases and other air force facilities. They also have a number of other sp... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Air interdiction | History:
World War II: In the lead up to the invasion of France, the Allied strategic bomber force was switched from the destruction of the enemy air force and means of production to a destruction of the railway routes to the intended landing areas. Once the landings were underway, the Allied tactical and strategic a... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Air supremacy | Levels: Air supremacy is the highest level, where a side holds complete control of the skies. It is defined by NATO and the United States Department of Defense as the "degree of air superiority wherein the opposing air force is incapable of effective interference".
Air superiority is the second level, where a side is i... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Air supremacy | Mitchell's ideas were not popular, with his outspoken opposition to Army and Navy resistance resulting in a court-martial that precipitated his resignation, but he would prove prescient; his 1924 inspection tour of Hawaii and Asia culminated in a report (published in 1925 as the book Winged Defense) that predicted futu... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Air supremacy | Korean War: The Korean War represented a major turning point for aerial warfare, being the first conflict in which jet aircraft played the central role in combat. Once-formidable fighters such as the P-51 Mustang, F4U Corsair, and Hawker Sea Fury—all piston-engined, propeller-driven, and designed during the Second Worl... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Air supremacy | 1978 Lebanon conflict: The 1978 South Lebanon conflict was an invasion of Lebanon up to the Litani River, carried out by the Israel Defense Forces in 1978 in response to the Coastal Road massacre. Israel had complete air supremacy.
1982 Lebanon invasion: In the 1982 Lebanon War where Israel invaded up to Beirut, Syria... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Airborne early warning and control | General characteristics: Modern AEW&C systems can detect aircraft from up to 400 km (220 nmi) away, well out of range of most surface-to-air missiles. One AEW&C aircraft flying at 9,000 m (30,000 ft) can cover an area of 312,000 km2 (120,000 sq mi). Three such aircraft in overlapping orbits can cover the whole of Centr... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Airborne early warning and control | The Chinese AWACS has a unique phased array radar (PAR) carried in a round radome. Unlike the US AWACS aircraft, which rotate their rotodomes to give a 360 degree coverage, the radar antenna of the Chinese AWACS does not rotate. Instead, three PAR antenna modules are placed in a triangular configuration inside the roun... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Airborne early warning and control | ISBN 978-1857802153.
Gordon, Yefim; Davison, Peter (2006). Tupolev Tu-95 Bear. Warbird Tech. Vol. 43. North Branch, Minnesota: Specialty Press. ISBN 978-1-58007-102-4.
Hazell, Steve (2000). Fairey Gannet. Warpaint Series No.23. Buckinghamshire, England: Hall Park Books. ISSN 1363-0369.
Hirst, Mike (1983). Airborne Earl... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Airborne forces | Early history: Benjamin Franklin envisioned the danger of airborne attack in 1784, only a few months after the first manned flight in a hot air balloon:
Five Thousand Balloons capable of raising two Men each, would not cost more than Five Ships of the Line: And where is the Prince who can afford so to cover his Countr... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Airborne forces | Japan built a combat strike force of 825 gliders but never committed it to battle.
Allied operations: Ironically, the battle that ended Germany's paratrooper operations had the opposite effect on the Allies. Convinced of the effectiveness of airborne assaults after Crete, the Allies hurried to train and organize their... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Airborne forces | Strong winds encountered en route blew the dropping aircraft off course and scattered them widely. The result was that around half the paratroopers failed to make it to their rallying points. The British airborne troops from the 1st Airborne Division were glider infantry of the 1st Airlanding Brigade, commanded by Brig... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Airborne forces | The task of the airborne forces was to secure the flanks and approaches of the landing beaches in Normandy. The British glider transported troops and paratroopers of the 6th Airborne Division, which secured the eastern flank during Operation Tonga. This operation included the capture of the Caen canal and Orne river br... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Airborne forces | Burma: A large British force, known as the Chindits, operated behind Japanese lines during 1944. In Operation Thursday, most of the units were flown into landing grounds which had been seized by glider infantry transported by the American First Air Commando Group, commencing on March 5. Aircraft continued to land reinf... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Airborne forces | In February 1967 Operation Junction City was launched, it would be the largest operation the Allied forces would assemble. During this operation, 845 members of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Airmen (Airborne), the 319th Artillery (Airborne), and elements of H&H company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade made the only combat jump... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Airborne forces | Pocket Books, 2003
Ambrose, Stephen E., Band of Brothers. Pocket Books, 2001
Arthur, Max, Forgotten Voices Of The Second World War. Edbury Press, 2005
Balkoski, Joseph, Utah Beach: The Amphibious Landing and Airborne Operations on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Stackpole Books US, 2006
Bando, Mark A., 101st Airborne: The Screami... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Airborne operation | Early history: Benjamin Franklin envisioned the danger of airborne attack in 1784, only a few months after the first manned flight in a hot air balloon:
Five Thousand Balloons capable of raising two Men each, would not cost more than Five Ships of the Line: And where is the Prince who can afford so to cover his Countr... |
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