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• 75th Ranger Regiment [r]: Assigned to the Army Special Operations Command of the United States Special Operations Command, a highly skilled, parachute-qualified light infantry unit that conducts raids in uniform (e.g., seizing airfields or destroying strategic targets), and provides perimeter security during direct action by other special operators ^[e]
• AAQ-24 [r]: A Directed Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCM) active electronic device that uses intense light to dazzle or burn out infrared missile seekers ^[e]
• AAR-54 [r]: Using multiple ultraviolet sensors, this is an missile exhaust detector and alarm ^[e]
• AC-130 [r]: Heavily armed transport aircraft, based on the C-130 Hercules, used to provide air support to special operations forces. ^[e]
• AH-1 Cobra [r]: The first purpose-built U.S. attack helicopter, introduced by the U.S. Army in the Vietnam War; the U.S. Marine Corps still operates a much-modified version ^[e]
• ALE-39 [r]: An obsolete dispenser of electronic warfare expendables (e.g., flares and chaff), to be replaced by the AN/ALE-47 ^[e]
• ALR-93 [r]: Part of the defensive electronics suite for United States Special Operations Command helicopters and fixed-wing transport aircraft, this detects a wide range of radar, and cues a decoy launcher and other countermeasures ^[e]
• AN- [r]: U.S. military nomenclature for electronic equipment, following the Joint Electronics Type Designation System ^[e]
• AVR-2 [r]: A first-and-second generation, obsolescent laser warning receiver ^[e]
• Advanced Force Operations [r]: Clandestine operations, not primarily for Intelligence Preparation of the Battlespace, conducted by special operations personnel prior to major combat, but preparing for combat operations (e.g., target selection, guerrilla liaison, setting up evasion and escape networks). ^[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]
• Agency for International Development [r]: U.S. government agency responsible for nonmilitary foreign aid of goods, services, and certain finances, although it does not operate at the highest levels of international finance. May operate assistance and development programs in foreign countries ^[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 Force Special Operations Command [r]: The Air Component of United States Special Operations Command; lineage includes Air Commando units in the Vietnam War ^[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 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 campaigns in Cambodia and Laos [r]: U.S. military air operations, both overt and covert, over Cambodia and Laos; some before and most during the 1962-1972 Vietnam War ^[e]
• Air refueling [r]: Transferring fuel from one aircraft to another while both are in flight. ^[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]
• 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]
• Attack helicopter [r]: A helicopter equipped with built-in heavy weapons, which has no standard cargo capacity and is used as a "flying tank" in close air support or battlefield air interdiction. ^[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]
• Battlefield air interdiction [r]: Air warfare intended to support ground troops, not by direct firepower but interfering with enemy supplies, reinforcements and communications ^[e]
• C-130 Hercules [r]: Add brief definition or description
• C. Christine Fair [r]: Add brief definition or description
• C3I-ISR [r]: Add brief definition or description
• CH-47 Chinook [r]: Add brief definition or description
• CIA activities in Iran [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cambodia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Central Intelligence Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Chief of Staff of the Army [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Clandestine human-source intelligence and covert action [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Clandestine operation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Combat search and rescue [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Commandant of the Marine Corps [r]: Add brief definition or description
• David Kilcullen [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Defense Intelligence Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Dell Dailey [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Delta Force [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Direct action (military) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Eighth United States Army [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Electronic intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Electronic warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
• F-16 Fighting Falcon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Flare (electronic warfare) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Foreign internal defense [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Fort Bragg [r]: Add brief definition or description
• French and Indian Wars [r]: Add brief definition or description
• French and Indian War [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gulf War [r]: Add brief definition or description
• H-60 helicopter [r]: Add brief definition or description
• HAVE QUICK II [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hamid Karzai [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Information operations [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Infrared countermeasures [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Intelligence Preparation of the Battlespace [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Intelligence interrogation, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Intelligence interrogation, U.S. [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Intercontinental ballistic missile [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
• John Mulholland [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Joint Special Operations Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Laos [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Laser designator [r]: Add brief definition or description
• MACV-SOG [r]: Add brief definition or description
• MC-130 COMBAT SHADOW [r]: Add brief definition or description
• MC-130 COMBAT SPEAR [r]: Add brief definition or description
• MC-130 COMBAT TALON [r]: Add brief definition or description
• MQ-1 Predator [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Marine Air-Ground Task Force [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Marine Special Operations Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Michael Repass [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Military Assistance Command, Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Military [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Missile warning receiver [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mogadishu [r]: Add brief definition or description
• National Command Authority [r]: Add brief definition or description
• National Security Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Naval infantry [r]: Add brief definition or description
• North Carolina (U.S. state) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Northern Alliance [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Operation EAGLE CLAW [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Operational Preparation of the Battlespace [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Operational Preparation of the Environment [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Osama bin Laden [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pararescue [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Paratroop [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Radar warning receiver [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Robert M. Gates [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Secret Intelligence Service [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Special Air Service [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Special operations weather [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Special operations [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Special reconnaissance [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Terrorism and U.S. Intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.K. Special Forces [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. Department of Defense [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. Intelligence and terrorism in the 1970s [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. intelligence activities in Africa [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. support to South Vietnam before Gulf of Tonkin [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ultraviolet [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Unconventional warfare (United States doctrine) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Unified Combatant Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Air Force [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Army Special Forces [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Army [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Central Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Marine Corps [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Navy SEAL [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Pacific Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
• War on terror [r]: Add brief definition or description
• XVIII Airborne Corps [r]: Add brief definition or description