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- 101st Airborne Division [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 155mm howitzer [r]: Implemented in self-propelled or lightweight towed versions, this howitzer size, with slight variations in caliber, is the world's most common medium artillery type [e]
- 1st Cavalry Division [r]: A heavy division of the United States Army, partially deployed to Baghdad; part of III Corps at Fort Hood, Texas [e]
- 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment [r]: A U.S. army Heavy Brigade Combat Team, one of the few that retains the formal title of "regiment"; it retains its lineage and traditional name of "Brave Rifles," and is an active unit with a distinguished record. [e]
- A-10 Thunderbolt II [r]: A heavily armed close air support and ground attack aircraft, which can loiter over a battlefield and then hit targets with great accuracy, while retaining high survivability against ground fire. [e]
- AGM-86 ALCM [r]: A long-range cruise missile that can be delivered anywhere in the world from U.S. bases, employing blast or precision penetrating warheads [e]
- ALQ-131 [r]: A pod-mounted intelligent radar jammer of 1990 vintage, with capabilities against both continuous wave and pulse radar in different frequency bands [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]
- BGM-109 Tomahawk [r]: A U.S.-designed cruise missile, launched from vertical launch systems on ships and submarines, against land targets [e]
- Ballistic missile [r]: A guided missile which, once its engines stop firing, follows a generally parabolic path to its target, defined by momentum, aerodynamic resistance, and gravity [e]
- Battle of Gettysburg [r]: A turning point in the American Civil War, July 1-3, 1863, on the outskirts of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. [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]
- F-111 [r]: A first attempt, and failure, to build a fighter aircraft with substantial commonality between the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy; the Navy fleet interceptor version never deployed, although the fighter bomber (informally the Aardvark), electronic warfare aircraft (informally the Spark Vark) and them medium bomber, was competent with the U.S. and Royal Australian air forces [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]
- Information operations [r]: The integrated employment of the core capabilities of electronic warfare, computer network operations, psychological operations, military deception, and operations security. [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]
- Kuwait [r]: Country on the Persian Gulf bordering Iraq to the north and Saudi Arabia to the south; population of 2.5 million. [e]
- M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System [r]: A fully-tracked artillery firing platform that carries two munitions pods, containing either six rockets or short-range surface-to-surface missiles, or one MGM-140 ATACMS tactical ballistic missile [e]
- MH-53 Pave Low [r]: United States Air Force special operations helicopter that can fly at night, at extremely low altiude, and in most weather. Its main missions are delivering and retrieving special operations personnel; replaced by the CV-22 [e]
- MIM-104 Patriot [r]: Missile originally developed for medium-to-high altitude aircraft interception (SAM) use, which, while retaining that capability, is now optimized as an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) for relatively small but critical areas. The SAM versions have explosive warheads but the ABM is hit-to-kill. [e]
- Marine Air-Ground Task Force [r]: The basic structure of United States Marine Corps combined arms, task-organized units [e]
- Operation DESERT SHIELD [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation DESERT STORM [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation LINEBACKER II [r]: Add brief definition or description
- RC-135 RIVET JOINT [r]: Add brief definition or description
- SS-1 SCUD [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Suppression of enemy air defense [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United Nations [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 Marine Corps [r]: Add brief definition or description
- V-2 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- XVIII Airborne Corps [r]: Add brief definition or description
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