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Parent topics
- 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]
Subtopics
Missions
- 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]: A set of techniques for detecting, tracking, and neutralizing cruise missiles and their launching platforms. The techniques involved include sensors, and both kinetic and nonkinetic mechanisms for disrupting the missiles and their launchers. [e]
- Land attack [r]: A range of technologies and techniques used to attack targets on land from the sea; the targets are usually assumed to be well inland, and the weapons to be non-nuclear [e]
- 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]: naval gun, unguided rocket, and guided missile fire from ships, in direct support of ground forces; does not include close air support even if the aircraft fly from ships [e]
- Naval Special Warfare [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]
Commands
- United States Third Fleet [r]: Currently the eastern Pacific-U.S. West Coast naval component of United States Pacific Command, based in San Diego, California; was the Central Pacific combat fleet in the Second World War when under the command of ADM William Halsey [e]
- United States Fifth Fleet [r]: Now the United States Navy component of United States Central Command; in WWII, the Pacific Fleet when under the command of ADM Raymond Spruance [e]
- Task Force 151 [r]: A multinational naval task force, created around Expeditionary Strike Group TWO from United States Central Command, which is conducting counter-piracy operations in the waters off Somalia; now under Turkish Navy command [e]
- United States Seventh Fleet [r]: The forward-deployed forces of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps that operate in the western Pacific Ocean; a major operating command under United States Pacific Command [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]
- Naval Special Warfare Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
Leadership
- Gary Roughead [r]: U.S. Chief of Naval Operations since 2007 [e]
- Timothy Keating [r]: Add brief definition or description
Systems and ship classes
- See also: U.S. Navy/Catalogs/Ship classes
- See also: U.S. Navy/Catalogs/Electronics
- See also: U.S. Navy/Catalogs/Aircraft types
- See also: U.S. Navy/Catalogs/Weapons
- AEGIS battle management system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Global Command and Control System-Maritime [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Global Information Grid [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cooperative Engagement Capability [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Theater Battle Management Core System [r]: Add brief definition or description
History
- Civil Engineering Corps [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Conventional takeoff and landing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Admiral [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Adams [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kurt Campbell [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Naval Fire Control System [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Naval Supply Depot Oakland [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Non-commissioned officer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Northrop Grumman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Armitage [r]: Add brief definition or description
- SIGINT in the Second World War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Safety and survivability of naval vessels [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ship ceremonies [r]: Add brief definition or description