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Parent topics
- Combat arms [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tactics [r]: Military concepts and techniques used to fight a battle once battle is joined. [e]
Subtopics
Modern cavalry types
- Air assault [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Armor (disambiguation) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Armor (military unit) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Armored fighting vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Armored personnel carrier [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Infantry fighting vehicle [r]: A vehicle intended to carry infantry onto a battlefield, sometimes allowing them to fight from inside and always to dismount and fight on foot; it accompanies dismounts and provides heavier fire support than they can carry [e]
- Tank (military) [r]: A large land combat vehicle that moves on continuous tracks rather than wheels, has its primary armament in a rotating armored turret, is armored against more than small arms fire, and, while it can be extremely effective in many combat situations, is optimized to kill other tanks [e]
Historic cavalry types
Cavalry leaders
Armor, Mechanized, Air
- Christian de Castries [r]: French military officer who was the final commander of the base at Dien Bien Phu. A cavalry and tank specialist, it had been conceived that he might take the fight to the enemy, but instead became was put into a defensive role [e]
- Hamilton H. Howze [r]: United States Army general and Army Aviation pioneer, considered the creator of division-sized, helicopter-mobile air assault forces. Retired as four-star commander of UN forces in Korea. [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]
- Creighton Abrams [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Heinz Guderian [r]: Add brief definition or description
Horse
- J.E.B. Stuart [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Belisarius [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ancient Celtic music [r]: The music and instruments of the ancient Celts until late Antiquity. [e]
- Vietnamese Communist grand strategy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Military doctrine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operational Maneuver Group [r]: A Soviet-originated idea in operational art, consisting of a mobile force that penetrates enemy lines and disrupts the rear area, either exhausting itself or defeating all [e]