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• 101st Airborne Division [r]: A division of the U.S. Army, originally created as airborne, but now air assault with permanently assigned helicopter mobility [e]
• 10th Special Forces Group [r]: United States Army Special Forces group with an area of responsibility matching United States European Command [e]
• 173rd Airborne Brigade [r]: An Airborne Infantry Brigade Combat Team, independent of the 82nd Airborne Division, primarily assigned to United States European Command but also having been assigned to United States Central Command for assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan; one of the first U.S. Army combat units used in Joint warfare in South Vietnam 1964-1968 [e]
• 4th Infantry Division (U.S.) [r]: An active modular division of the United States Army, a "heavy" division known as the "Ivy Division" for its insignia, four ivy leaves on a diamond field, primarily headquartered at Fort Hood, Texas. [e]
• 5th Special Forces Group [r]: One of the older United States Army Special Forces groups first serving in Vietnam, the unit now supports United States Central Command in the Middle East, Central Asia and Horn of Africa [e]
• 82nd Airborne Division [r]: One of the strategic reserve units of the United States Army, this is the only division-sized organization that is completely parachute-qualified for air assault operations. [e]
• Afghanistan War (2001-), major combat phase [r]: During the Afghanistan War (2001-), the period of combat by Afghan ground forces, with U.S. and British air & special operations support, which drove the Taliban and al-Qaeda from their bases, in October through December 2001 [e]
• Afghanistan War (2001-) [r]: Beginning on October 7, 2001, in response to the 9-11 attacks, military operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda by United States and NATO forces [e]
• Ahmed Chalabi [r]: An Iraqi politician, who spent much of his time in exile or in Kurdistan, who has declining influence in the current situation but is still regarded as well-connected [e]
• Air Combat Command [r]: The United States Air Force headquarters responsibility for preparing and training resources for the operational Unified Combatant Commands, as well as doctrinal development [e]
• Air Mobility Command [r]: The organization responsible for readiness of United States Air Force transport and air refueling aircraft, which report, for operations, to United States Transportation Command [e]
• Air warfare planning [r]: The set of doctrines and procedures for carrying out all types of air warfare, as an integrated whole [e]
• Airborne (disambiguation) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• American Revolution [r]: The political and military action of the American colonists who overthrew British control between 1763-1789. [e]
• Andrew Exum [r]: A Fellow with the Center for a New American Security, who has done fieldwork in Lebanon, served as a U.S. Army infantry officer in Afghanistan and Iraq, and worked in evaluation for United States Central Command [e]
• Anthony Taguba [r]: Involuntarily retired major general in the United States Army who, as Deputy Commanding General for Support for the United States Central Command land component command, was ordered to conduct an independent investigation of abuse allegations at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq; delivered a highly critical report that apparently ended his career [e]
• Anthony Zinni [r]: A retired U.S. Marine Corps four-star general, whose assignments included heading United States Central Command and serving as a special envoy for the Israel-Palestinian process. He is strongly critical of the George W. Bush Administration and resigned, in protest, from his diplomatic role. [e]
• Anti-air warfare [r]: In the context of naval warfare, the mission of defending against aircraft and missiles, from platforms under naval command and control, possibly in coordination with other services and possibly defending land as well as sea areas. [e]
• Army Special Operations Command [r]: A command that trains and prepares U.S. Army special operations personnel, including United States Army Special Forces, and serves as the land forces component of United States Special Operations Command [e]
• Army of the Republic of Viet Nam motivation [r]: Psychological and political factors affecting the combat performance of the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam [e]
• Army [r]: Either the largest type of formation for a land-based military force, or the entirety of a nation's military force responsible for its land defenses. [e]
• BGM-109 Tomahawk [r]: A U.S.-designed cruise missile, launched from vertical launch systems on ships and submarines, against land targets [e]
• Battle of Ap Bac [r]: Fought on January 2, 1963, a small but politically significant battle of the Vietnam War, won by the Viet Cong against Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) troops with United States Army advisors. It was significant in that the command failures were publicized to the press by John Paul Vann; denials by U.S. senior commanders started the pattern of aggressive investigative journalism [e]
• Battle of Tora Bora [r]: A battle of the Afghanistan War (2001-), in which allied special operations forces, principally using Afghan troops, attempted to kill or capture an escaping Osama bin Laden [e]
• Battle of the Bulge [r]: In the Second World War, the final German counteroffensive in the Ardennes region of western Europe [e]
• Burke-class [r]: Large U.S. Navy multirole destroyers equipped with AEGIS battle management system and constant upgrades; Japan has Kongo-class clones, also being upgraded to ballistic missile defense; South Korea has the KDK-class [e]
• CIA activities in Asia-Pacific [r]: This is a regional-level subpage dealing with CIA intelligence and operations pertaining to the Asia-Pacific area. Large topics may be in subordinate pages. [e]
• Center for a New American Security [r]: A fairly new national security think tank, the founders of which are now in the Obama administration; some of the new senior members have significant field counterinsurgency experience [e]
• Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [r]: The senior member of the uniformed services of the United States, statutory senior military adviser to the President and Secretary of Defense; currently Admiral Mike Mullen; policy developer and adviser not in the operational chain of command [e]
• Chief of Staff of the Army [r]: Uniformed professional head of the United States Army, a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and of four-star general rank [e]
• Chuck Horner [r]: A retired United States Air Force general, best known for commanding the Coalition air forces in operations against Iraq in 1991. [e]
• Civilian Irregular Defense Group [r]: Light and irregular infantry units in the Republic of Vietnam, typically defending their local area, and trained and led by United States Army Special Forces personnel, and sometimes by their Army of the Republic of Viet Nam counterparts in the Nha Ky Thuat [e]
• Classified information [r]: Material collected or created by a government that is subject to limitations on its release to the general public and may have penalties for its unauthorized release. [e]
• Coalition Provisional Authority [r]: The initial U.S. civilian governmental body, carrying out, in Iraq, the role of Occupying Power as defined in the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions [e]
• Cold War [r]: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. [e]
• Command and control [r]: The combination of lawful authority over people and resources, coupled with the methods of directing their execution of missions and tasks directed at goals set by that authority [e]
• Commandant of the Marine Corps [r]: Senior uniformed officer of the United States Marine Corps and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; responsible for doctrinal development, and preparing and training forces, for deployment to Unified Combatant Commands [e]
• Compartmented control system [r]: A set of controls, in addition to a regular national security classifications, that adds additional security restrictions to especially sensitive information [e]
• Condoleeza Rice [r]: Academic political scientist, then Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and U.S. Secretary of State in the George W. Bush Administration [e]
• Corps [r]: The highest-level military headquarters that has an operational art mission, as opposed to tactical and support/administrative role; normally commanded by a major general or lieutenant general [e]
• Council on Foreign Relations [r]: An influential "think tank", publisher, and facilitator of communications in international relations; based in the US but with an international membership and not associated with a specific ideology [e]
• Counterinsurgency [r]: Theory and practice of defeating insurgency without creating even more local resistance or strategic failures [e]
• DBANABASIS [r]: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) code for covert operations to destabilize the government of Saddam Hussein before the Iraq War [e]
• Daniel Senor [r]: Now a commentator on the Middle East and investment capital adviser, a Republican who was a foreign policy and communications adviser in the Senate, Deputy Press Secretary in the George W. Bush Administration and spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority; adjunct fellow for the Council on Foreign Relations [e]
• David Kilcullen [r]: A former Australian infantry officer with a doctorate in the study of insurgency and history, he is an advisor on counterinsurgency to the Australian and U.S. governments. His models draw a sharp distinction between the tactic of terror, and the conduct of wars that make use of that tactic. Board of Advisors, Center for a New American Security [e]
• David McKiernan [r]: A U.S Army General who was relieved early of command of the International Security Assistance Force, NATO's headquarters in Afghanistan; he commanded the ground forces in the Iraq War and is an armored combat specialist, as opposed to his replacement, GEN Stanley McChrystal, a special operations officer [e]
• David Petraeus [r]: General, U.S. Army, presently commanding United States Central Command after having the senior command in Iraq, long associated with counterinsurgency doctrine [e]
• Debaathification [r]: Policies and procedures to extirpate influences of the Ba'ath Party ideology, and officials of it, from Iraq after the Iraq War [e]
• Defense Intelligence Agency [r]: One of the members of the United States intelligence community, charged with providing national-level analysis specifically relevant for military needs, and being the focal point for measurement and signature intelligence [e]
• Dell Dailey [r]: Currently Counterterrorism Coordinator for the U.S. Department of State, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general whose career was spent in special operations [e]
• Delta Force [r]: A generally covert U.S. Army unit in Joint Special Operations Command, specializing in hostage rescue and combat search and rescue, direct action, special reconnaissance, and counterterrorism. [e]
• Diego Garcia [r]: The largest island of the Chagos Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory (B.I.O.T.), which has had all native inhabitants removed, and is a major U.S. military base; it is the base for a prepositioning ship squadron and a forward base for bomber aircraft and air refueling tankers [e]
• Division (military) [r]: A regularly constituted military formation that combines infantry, artillery and cavalry. [e]
• Donald Rumsfeld [r]: U.S. Secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush Administration (2001-2008); was the oldest secretary and earlier the youngest secretary in the Administration (1975-1977); major policymaker after the 9-11 attack; advisor, Project for the New American Century [e]
• Doug Macgregor [r]: A retired U.S. Army colonel who has written extensively on military transformation and revolutions in military affairs; advised Donald Rumsfeld in Iraq War planning [e]
• Douglas Feith [r]: An American strategic analyst, associated with neoconservatism, who held posts including Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in 2001-2005, when he advised Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War; fellow of the Hudson Institute [e]
• Earl Hailston [r]: United States Marine Corps retired lieutenant general, who was Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Pacific/Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command/Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific/Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Bases, 2001-2003; during this time, he led the Marine component of United States Central Command into Afghanistan and Iraq, providing staff supervision over I Marine Expedititionary Force and LTG James Conway; advisory board, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs [e]
• Egypt [r]: A country in the northeastern corner of Africa, bordering Sudan, Libya, the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea [e]
• Eighth Air Force [r]: The organization currently "owning" the bombers, information operations, and most intelligence aircraft of the United States Air Force; it conducted strategic bombing against Germany in the Second World War [e]
• Eric Shinseki [r]: U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs in the Obama Administration, and a retired four-star general whose last assignment was Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army [e]
• F-15 Eagle [r]: A series of air superiority fighters, designed for the United States Air Force and flown by several countries; intended for the high role in the high-low mix; The F-15E Strike Eagle is a multirole fighter variant. [e]
• F-16 Fighting Falcon [r]: A relatively lightweight land-based multirole fighter, developed by the United States Air Force; co-produced with Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal; operated by many nations and to be replaced by the F-35A Lightning II. The F-16CJ model is optimized for SEAD. [e]
• Fall of South Vietnam [r]: The result of a series of conventional military actions by the People's Army of Viet Nam, under the direction of the Politburo of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, which led to the dissolution of the Republic of Vietnam and the reunification of North and South Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam [e]
• Foreign internal defense [r]: The United States military doctrine for assisting Host Nations in their counterinsurgency programs [e]
• Fort Bragg [r]: A large U.S. Army base in North Carolina, with major resident units being the XVIII Airborne Corps, 82nd Airborne Division, Army Special Operations Command and the school and center for United States Army Special Forces [e]
• Fratricide (military) [r]: The killing of one's brother, but in a military context, the killing of one's own forces ("friendly fire"). [e]
• George Casey [r]: U.S. Chief of Staff of the Army since 2007; previously commanded Multi-National Force-Iraq [e]
• George Patton [r]: (1885 - 1945) Controversial American general in World War II, famed for his successes in armored warfare against the Germans in 1944-45. [e]
• Greg Newbold [r]: A retired lieutenant general of the United States Marine Corps, who retired from his final assignment, as director of operations for the Joint Staff, partially in protest of the plans for the upcoming Iraq War [e]
• Gulf War, Coalition order of battle [r]: Military forces of the Coalition side of the Gulf War [e]
• Gulf War [r]: The conflict started by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and ended with the liberation of Kuwait and major damage to Iraqi forces, by a US-led UN coalition in 1991. [e]
• H Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. [r]: Retired United States Army four-star general, best known for commanding United States Central Command and the coalition forces in the 1991 Gulf War [e]
• Hoover Institution [r]: A long-established think tank at Stanford University, of generally American conservative ideology and respected academic quality; founded by President Herbert Hoover [e]
• Intelligence interrogation, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: The policies and practices authorized for interrogation of suspected terrorists by the United States Department of Defense and the United States intelligence community during the George W. Bush Administration [e]
• Intelligence interrogation, U.S. [r]: Policies, techniques and practices of United States interrogation in a national intelligence-gathering context. (See Intelligence interrogation, U.S., George W. Bush Administration for recent detailed discussions) [e]
• International Institute for Strategic Studies [r]: A UK-based think tank with offices in the US and Singapore, founded in 1958; publishes The Military Balance, Strategic Survey, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, Strategic Comment [e]
• International Security Assistance Force [r]: United Nations authorized, North Atlantic Treaty Organization-commanded military and security force in Afghanistan, in both a combat and training role [e]
• Iraq Freedom Force [r]: A guerilla force, recruited by Ahmed Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress, recruited to fight in the Iraq War; United States Central Command officers did not trust or want the force [e]
• Iraq War, Surge [r]: A U.S. campaign, announced on 10 January 2007, to flood the Baghdad area with at least 20,000 more American troops, to improve security to a point where the Iraqi Security Forces could protect the population [e]
• Iraq War, insurgency [r]: The period of the Iraq War following the end of major combat operations, and the beginning of significant guerilla warfare in July-August 2003 [e]
• Iraq War, major combat phase [r]: That part of the Iraq War involving the initial invasion by large-scale ground forces [e]
• Iraq War, origins of invasion [r]: Those factors, in the broad context of prior American actions and foreign policy, which led to the specific decision of the George W. Bush Administration to launch the 2003 invasion of Iraq [e]
• Iraq War, theater operational planning [r]: Detailed invasion planning for the Iraq War by United States Central Command, once the policy decision had been made to prepare for war [e]
• Iraq War [r]: Invasion of Iraq by a coalition of countries, led by the United States, in 2003, and subsequent occupation [e]
• Iraq and weapons of mass destruction [r]: Threats, development programs and actual use, of weapons of mass destruction by Iraq, from the 1970s through the Iraq War [e]
• Iraqi National Congress [r]: An Iraqi political party, originally in exile, headed by Ahmed Chalabi; does not have any current seats in the National Assembly [e]
• Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs [r]: An organization dedicated to advancing the strategic relationship between the US and Israel, with military exchanges, education and research [e]
• John Abizaid [r]: Retired general, United States Army; succeeded GEN Tommy Franks to head United States Central Command after Iraq War, major combat phase; native Arabic speaker; fellow, Hoover Institution; Former Senior Advisor, Preventive Defense Project, Belfer Center, 2007-2009 [e]
• John Mulholland [r]: Since 2008, a lieutenant general commanding U.S. Army Special Forces; he commanded the 5th Special Forces Group in combat in the Afghanistan War (2001-) and Iraq War [e]
• John Warden III [r]: A retired United States Air Force colonel, who, as a planner, developed many of the basic ideas for the air campaign in the 1991 Gulf War. In retirement, he writes, speaks, and consults on strategy. [e]
• Joint Staff [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Kentucky [r]: 15th state of the USA [e]
• Kyrgyzstan [r]: A landlocked central Asian nation, formerly part of the Soviet Union [e]
• Lac Luong Dac Biet [r]: Special Forces of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam; a paramilitary organization reporting to the office of President Ngo Dinh Diem before his overthrow, then a combination of a counterpart to United States Army Special Forces and a clandestine human-source intelligence and covert action organization, and eventually a pure counterpart organization. [e]
• Logistics (military) [r]: "The science of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of forces." (Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms) [e]
• MACV-SOG [r]: The U.S. organization responsible for covert operations against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, as well as related cross-border operations from South Vietnam into Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War; the abbreviation had an unclassified cover meaning, but was actually the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Special Operations Group [e]
• MC-130 COMBAT TALON [r]: Special operations transport aircraft primarily intended to support ground forces in denied areas, by airdrop or assault landing; secondary capability of helicopter refueling and navigational assistance. [e]
• Malaria [r]: A tropical infectious disease, caused by protozoa carried by mosquitoes, which is the world's worst insect vector-borne disease [e]
• Marine Air-Ground Task Force [r]: The basic structure of United States Marine Corps combined arms, task-organized units [e]
• Marine Special Operations Command [r]: The Marine component of United States Special Operations Command, this unit absorbed the existing Marine special reconnaissance "Force Recon" companies (but not battalions), but also added a support organization, school, and a system of developing training teams for foreign internal defense and other special operations missions [e]
• Martin Dempsey [r]: General in the U.S. Army, commanding Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) [e]
• Michael Repass [r]: Commanding general of United States Army Special Forces Command as of 2007 [e]
• Michelle Howard [r]: Rear admiral in the United States Navy, commanding multinational Task Force 151 on counter-piracy operations in the waters off Somalia [e]
• Middle East [r]: A geographical region in Asia that also contains small parts of Europe and Africa. [e]
• Mike DeLong [r]: Retired lieutenant general, U.S. Marine Corps, who was GEN Tommy Franks' Deputy Commander at United States Central Command in 2001-2003 [e]
• Military Assistance Command, Vietnam [r]: Headquarters for most U.S. combat and support units assisting the Republic of Vietnam [e]
• Military formation (ground) [r]: The military term for a grouping of units. [e]
• Multi-National Corps-Iraq [r]: Highest land combat headquarters for Coalition tactical units in the peace operations phase of the Iraq War [e]
• Multi-National Force-Iraq [r]: The senior Coalition military headquarters in Iraq, commanded by GEN Ray Odierno, U.S. Army [e]
• Nathaniel Fick [r]: President and previously Chief Operating Officer Center for a New American Security;counterinsurgency theorist; United States Marine Corps officer in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars ; Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies [e]
• National Command Authority [r]: The combination of the U.S. President and Secretary of Defense, or their successors, who have the sole authority to authorize the use of nuclear weapons, or issue orders to Unified Combatant Commands [e]
• Naval infantry [r]: Personnel assigned to naval ships, who are qualified to engage in combat using individual weapons, against enemy personnel on land or on ships that were boarded [e]
• Ninth Air Force [r]: The air component command of United States Central Command, as well as an intermediate headquarters for a number of U.S.-based units of Air Combat Command. [e]
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization [r]: Intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949, with its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. [e]
• Obama administration [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance [r]: The initial U.S. government organization established to run Iraq following the end of the major fighting in the Iraq War; replaced by the Coalition Provisional Authority [e]
• Operation BRIGHT STAR [r]: A major multinational training exercise, held every one or two years, led by the U.S. and Egypt, involving coalitions of dozens of nations under United States Central Command (CENTCOM) [e]
• Operation CEDAR FALLS [r]: 19-day Vietnam War "search and destroy" mission in January 1967 in the "Iron Triangle" area northwest of Saigon. [e]
• Operation DESERT FOX [r]: A December 1998 U.S. and U.K. air campaign against Iraq, to punish Saddam Hussein for interferences with weapons of mass destruction searches by the United Nations UNSCOM inspectors [e]
• Operation DESERT SABRE [r]: That part of the Gulf War that began when conventional units of the Coalition crossed the Kuwaiti or Iraqi border, and ended with the cease-fire. [e]
• Operation DESERT SHIELD [r]: That part of the Gulf War following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, beginning with the acceptance of Coalition support by Saudi Arabia, and ending with the start of the air campaign, Operation DESERT STORM. [e]
• Operation DESERT STORM [r]: That part of the Gulf War, beginning with the first air strikes at 02:00 local time, 17 January 1991, until the main ground assault into Kuwait, Operation DESERT SABRE [e]
• Operation JUNCTION CITY [r]: A large "search and destroy" beginning in late 1967 and lasting for 72 days, following Operation CEDAR FALLS north of Saigon, with a 35,000 soldier force of South Vietnamese and United States troops [e]
• Operation PROVIDE COMFORT [r]: Humanitarian assistance and civil affairs operation in Iraqi Kurdistan after the Gulf War [e]
• Paratroop [r]: A subset of air assault military forces, which arrive at a tactical objective by deliberately parachuting from aircraft [e]
• Paul Wolfowitz [r]: An American political scientist and policy-level foreign affairs official, of a neoconservative ideology; resident American Enterprise Institute and on International Security Advisory Board; Deputy Secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush Administration; advisor, Project for the New American Century [e]
• Paul X. Kelley [r]: Retired general, United States Marine Corps; Commandant of the Marine Corps at the time of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings; Adviser, Foundation for Defense of Democracies [e]
• Piracy [r]: Violence against, or detention of, by private individuals, against aircraft or ships under national registry [e]
• Republican Guard [r]: Well-trained, equipped, and presumably politically loyal ground troops of Saddam Hussein's military [e]
• Restructuring of the United States Army [r]: A major doctrinal and organization redesign of the United States Army, with its chief feature being moving from the division to the Brigade Combat Team and new supporting brigade structures as the basic Unit of Action [e]
• Revolution in military affairs [r]: In actual or potential warfare, a situation where a military force combined technology, techniques, training and leadership to achieve a superior position to which the enemy had no immediate countermeasures [e]
• Ricardo Sanchez [r]: Retired lieutenant general of armor, United States Army, who commanded the senior U.S. headquarters in Iraq when the Abu Ghraib prison scandal broke; involved in early attempts to deal realistically with the growing insurgency after the end of high-intensity combat [e]
• Richard Armitage [r]: A U.S. foreign policy specialist, first a U.S. Navy officer in the Vietnam War, who rose to positions including Deputy Secretary of State in the first term of the George W. Bush Administration; board, International Crisis Group [e]
• Richard Clarke [r]: Career U.S. defense official who served in policy posts in the Ronald Reagan,George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations, specializing in counterterrorism in the latter two [e]
• Royal Air Force [r]: The British military service primarily responsible for air warfare [e]
• Ryan Crocker [r]: U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, 2007-2009, and a Foreign Service Officer with the highest rank of Career Ambassador [e]
• Saigon [r]: The largest city of Vietnam, renamed Ho Chi Minh City after reunification of the North and South in 1975 [e]
• Somalia [r]: A country located in the Horn of Africa, bordering Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya on its southwest, the Gulf of Aden at its north, the Indian Ocean at its east, and Ethiopia to the west. [e]
• Special operations [r]: Military or paramilitary operations that differ from conventional operations in degree of physical and political risk, operational techniques, mode of employment, independence from friendly support, and dependence on detailed operational intelligence and indigenous assets; they are often controlled at a national or strategic level of command [e]
• Stanley Larsen [r]: Lieutenant general of the U.S. Army, who commanded II Field Force of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, a corps-sized unit in the Central Highlands, during the buildup of U.S. ground forces in the Vietnam War. He later commanded the Sixth United States Army in the Presidio of San Francisco. [e]
• Task Force 151 [r]: A multinational naval task force, centered around a unit from United States Central Command, which is conducting counter-piracy operations in the waters off Somalia [e]
• Texas [r]: A State in the Southern USA. [e]
• Theater of operations (military) [r]: A geographically defined area in which a single military commander has authority over all military services [e]
• Third United States Army [r]: In United States Central Command, the headquarters organization for United States Army Components. Also designated ARCENT. [e]
• Thomas P. M. Barnett [r]: A U.S. strategic theorist and writer in futures studies, best known for the book The Pentagon's New Map giving a structure for globalization [e]
• Ticonderoga-class [r]: Modern U.S. Navy cruisers usually serving as carrier or amphibious escorts, but capable of independent action including long-range strike, anti-air/anti-ballistic missile/anti-satellite warfare, naval gunfire support, and antisubmarine warfare. [e]
• Timothy Keating [r]: Admiral, U.S. Navy, and Commander, United States Pacific Command as of 27 March 2007 [e]
• Tommy Franks [r]: Head of United States Central Command during the start of the Afghanistan War (2001-) and Iraq War; retired as a general [e]
• Training and Doctrine Command [r]: A major command of the U.S. Army, responsible both for all training as well as the development of doctrine of how the Army fights, currently headed by GEN Martin Dempsey [e]
• Tran Van Tra [r]: General officer of the People's Army of Viet Nam, serving from 1954 to the fall of South Vietnam, who has been in some disfavor for writing a frank history of the North Vietnamese side. [e]
• U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia [r]: Chief of the U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia, generally not exerting control over operational military forces there [e]
• U.S. Department of Defense [r]: The military forces of the United States and their supporting civil servants. [e]
• U.S. Mission to Iraq [r]: The U.S. Embassy and civilian agencies in Iraq, under the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq; Multi-National Force-Iraq is not under the Mission [e]
• U.S. Navy [r]: The branch of the United States Armed Forces charged with sea operations [e]
• U.S. advisers in the Vietnam War [r]: U.S. military personnel who trained and assisted Army of the Republic of Viet Nam troops, originally in noncombat roles only but eventually side-by-side in battle [e]
• U.S. foreign policy [r]: The foreign relations and diplomacy of the United States since 1775. [e]
• USS Bainbridge (DDG-96) [r]: A United States Navy destroyer of the Burke-class, Flight IIA version [e]
• USS Boxer (LHD-4) [r]: A U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship, flagship of Task Force 151 in April 2009 [e]
• USS Bunker Hill (CG-52) [r]: A Ticonderoga-class cruiser of the United States Navy, assigned to United States Central Command and United States Fifth Fleet [e]
• USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) [r]: A U.S. Navy destroyer of the Burke-class, currently assigned to United States Central Command in the Persian Gulf; within Flight IIA, this ship was the first to receive the 5"-62 caliber gun and supporting systems: AN/SYQ-27 Naval Fire Control System (compatible with Army Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS); also upgraded with Link 16 of the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System [e]
• Unified Combatant Command [r]: Operational line-of-commands for United States military groups. [e]
• United States Air Force [r]: One of the uniformed services of the United States, with principal responsibility for land-based long-range and high-performance aircraft, as well as land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles [e]
• United States Army Forces Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Army Special Forces [r]: United States Army organization originally created to train and lead guerillas, highly qualified to work with other cultures; acquired additional missions including foreign internal defense, direct action (military), special reconnaissance, counterterrorism, etc. [e]
• United States Army [r]: Branch of the United States Armed Forces with the principal responsibility of conducting large-scale ground combat [e]
• United States European Command [r]: U.S. Unified Combatant Command with responsibility for Europe and some nearby areas, such as the Mediterranean Sea; United States Africa Command is a subcommand [e]
• United States Fifth Fleet [r]: Naval component of United States Central Command; in WWII, the Pacific Fleet when under the command of ADM Raymond Spruance [e]
• United States Joint Forces Command [r]: A source of "surge" planners and staff, while helping organize the mission-focused joint task force that will address the specific need of other U.S. Unified Combatant Commands [e]
• United States Marine Corps [r]: A branch of the United States Armed Forces, with primary responsibilities as naval infantry and in amphibious warfare, are organized in Marine Air-Ground Task Forces capable of serving as up to corps headquarters with integrated close air support [e]
• United States Pacific Command [r]: The U.S. Unified Combatant Command, headquartered in Hawaii, and responsible for the Pacific and East Asia [e]
• United States Sixth Fleet [r]: The major forward-deployed U.S. Navy command of the United States European Command; operates in the Mediterranean Sea [e]
• United States Special Operations Command [r]: A U.S. Unified Combatant Command with both functional and operational responsibilities, both to prepare special operations forces for the geographic commands, and to execute strategic special operations, typically under national orders and high security classification [e]
• United States Third Fleet [r]: Currently a naval component of United States Pacific Command, based in San Diego, California; was the Central Pacific combat fleet in the Second World War when under the command of ADM William Halsey [e]
• United States intelligence community [r]: The United States' intelligence agencies coordinated by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. [e]
• V Corps [r]: A major tactical and operational command headquarters of the United States Army, normally forward-deployed in Heidelberg, Germany as part of United States European Command [e]
• Vice admiral [r]: Usually the second-highest military rank of admiral in Naval service, often called "three-star", equivalent to ground/air force lieutenant general [e]
• War on terror [r]: A major policy of the George W. Bush Administration, defining global terrorism, as opposed to nation-states as in the Cold War, as the focal point of national security policy [e]
• William Gortney [r]: As of April 2009, a vice admiral of the United States Navy, commanding United States Fifth Fleet, the naval component of United States Central Command, and multinational Task Force 150 conducting security operations in international waters off Somalia [e]