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• Afghanistan War (2001-2021), major combat phase [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Afghanistan War (2001-2021) [r]: Beginning on October 7, 2001, in response to the 9/11 attack, military operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda by United States and NATO forces ^[e]
• Air assault [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Air warfare planning [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Airborne (disambiguation) [r]: Add brief definition or description
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• Army Special Operations Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Army of the Republic of Viet Nam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Arnhem [r]: Dutch city; capital of the province of Gelderland. ^[e]
• Battalion [r]: Add brief definition or description
• 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]: Add brief definition or description
• 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
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• Frederick Nolting Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Indochinese revolution [r]: Add brief definition or description
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• Iraq War, insurgency [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Iraq War, major combat phase [r]: Add brief definition or description
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• 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
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• 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
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