United States Navy/Related Articles

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Naval warfare [r]: The military history of the organized navies of the world from 300 BCE to the present. ^[e]
U.S. Department of Defense [r]: one of more than a dozen U.S. executive-managed government agencies; this one administers the military forces of the United States, and their supporting civil servants. ^[e]
Department of the Navy (United States) [r]: A civilian component of the U.S. Department of Defense, responsible for management of Naval and Marine policy and procurement ^[e]
Secretary of the Navy (U.S.) [r]: U.S. civilian official, of Assistant Secretary of Defense rank, who heads the U.S. Department of the Navy and to whom the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps report ^[e]

Amphibious warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
Anti-air warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
Anti-submarine warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
Anti-surface warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
Ballistic missile defense [r]: Add brief definition or description
Cruise missile defense [r]: Add brief definition or description
Civil Engineering Corps [r]: The United States Navy officer track for the Seabees, more formally known as the Naval Construction Force or the Seabees ^[e]
Land attack [r]: Add brief definition or description
Littoral warfare [r]: Air, sea, subsurface, and land warfare that takes place in waters near a coast, or on coastal land areas. ^[e]
Mine warfare [r]: An area of military technology and doctrine, which deals with the development, use of, defense against, and removal of land mines, improvised explosive devices, and sea mines. These devices are characterized by being distributed prior to the presence of an adversary; the mines trigger either by sensing the enemy, or by command from friendly forces. ^[e]
Naval gunfire support [r]: Add brief definition or description
United States Navy SEAL [r]: [under]sea-air-land special operations organization of the United States Navy, specializing in direct action, special reconnaissance, combat search and rescue and counterterrorism ^[e]

United States Marine Corps [r]: Branch of the U.S. armed forces serving as elite fighters on land and aboard sea-going amphibious warfare ships. ^[e]

See also: U.S. Navy/Catalogs/Ship classes

See also: U.S. Navy/Catalogs/Aircraft types

For more information, see: History of the United States Navy.