Combined Operations
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- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Military History
- Subcategories: Ships, Naval History, Aircraft, Airplanes
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, British History, Worldwide
A term coined by the British in the early twentieth century, combined operations are military operations that combine land and naval forces, often supported from the air. Combined operations are older than the Greco-Persian conflicts (499-448 b.c.e.) and the Peloponnesian Wars (460-404 b.c.e.), when infantry and naval contingents worked in conjunction. The Romans took Carthage in 202 b.c.e. by landing an infantry force on the shores of North Africa. Similarly, William the Conqueror defeated the English after making a sea landing in 1066 c.e. By the eighteenth century, combined...
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