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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]
• 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]
• Air assault [r]: Military operations in which infantry are carried by aircraft onto, or very near, the target, or by parachuting. The aircraft may be helicopters, tilt-rotor aircraft, short-landing transports, or, historically, gliders. ^[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
• Ambassador [r]: An individual of the highest diplomatic rank, most commonly the representative of the head of state of his or her government to the head of state of the country to which the ambassador is accredited. ^[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 [r]: A term describing both the ground force specifically, and the armed forces generally, of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War and Fall of South Vietnam ^[e]
• Arnhem [r]: Dutch city; capital of the province of Gelderland. ^[e]
• Battalion [r]: Military formation of defined size, equipment, and organization, traditionally specialized for one function, such as infantry, artillery, transportation or intelligence; usually commanded by a lieutenant colonel; combat arms battalions may have 500-1000 soldiers; they are more mixed in function under the Restructuring of the United States Army ^[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 Na San [r]: A successful yet modest 1952 operation conducted by French paratroopers, who seized a forward base, and, under optimal conditions, formed a rock of a defense against which Viet Minh smashed themselves. It may have set unrealistic expectations for Dien Bien Phu ^[e]
• Battle of Sicily [r]: In the Mediterranean Theater and Italian Campaign of the Second World War, an Allied invasion of Sicily night of 9 July, 1943, ending 17 August in an Allied victory with the Axis troops either surrendering or withdrawing to the mainland ^[e]
• Battle of the Bulge [r]: In the Second World War, the final German counteroffensive in the Ardennes region of western Europe ^[e]
• Caterpillar Club [r]: An informal association whose members have successfully used a parachute to bail out of a disabled aircraft. ^[e]
• David Halberstam [r]: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, who was especially controversial for his coverage of the Vietnam War, where some thought he was providing critical investigation for the public, while others believed he was undermining the war effort ^[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]
• Dean Rusk [r]: United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1968 in the Administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, with extensive Asian experience and a strong advocate of U.S. resistance to Communism in Southeast Asia ^[e]
• Destroyer [r]: While the definition has evolved constantly, it is a multipurpose surface warship, generally less powerful than a cruiser, with capabilities against ship, aircraft, submarine, land, and sometimes ballistic missile targets ^[e]
• Dien Bien Phu [r]: Site in northern Vietnam of a 1954 decisive battle that soon forced France to relinquish control of colonial Indochina. ^[e]
• Division (military) [r]: A regularly constituted military formation that combines infantry, artillery and cavalry. ^[e]
• Eighteenth Air Force [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Fort Bragg [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Frederick Nolting Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Indochinese revolution [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Infantry [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Iraq War, insurgency [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Iraq War, major combat phase [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Iraq War, theater operational planning [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jean Gilles [r]: Add brief definition or description
• MACV-SOG [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Maxwell Taylor [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mendenhall-Krulak mission [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Military Assistance Command, Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Military award [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ngo Dinh Diem [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Operation MARKET-GARDEN [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Operation RANKIN [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Parachute [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Robert McNamara [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Special Air Service [r]: Add brief definition or description
• The Parachute Regiment (U.K) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tran Van Huong [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Navy SEAL [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vietnam War [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Wars of Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• World War II, air war, Mediterranean and European tactical operations [r]: Add brief definition or description
• XVIII Airborne Corps [r]: Add brief definition or description