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]

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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]: Add brief definition or description

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]
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]

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