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Land warfare [r]: The operations of predominantly land-based military forces to control areas of ground or defeat other land forces; separate air and naval services support these operations; they involve combat arms such as infantry, armor, artillery, combat engineers, army aviation, and special operations, as well as combat support and combat service support ^[e]

Assault Breacher Vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
Combat engineer [r]: Ground combat troops trained and equipped to improve the mobility of one's own side by breaching enemy obstacles, building bridges, etc.; blocking enemy mobility with barriers, demolition, mine warfare, etc. ^[e]
Demining [r]: A subset of mine warfare, usually refers to clearing land mines after the end of conflict; it is sometimes called humanitarian demining, and is often done by organizations much more poorly equipped than combat engineers ^[e]

Khmer Rouge [r]: An extreme Marxist guerrilla movement, and then genocidal government, of Cambodia. ^[e]
Lao Cai Province [r]: A province in the north of Vietnam, on the China-Vietnam border, neighboring Lai Chau Province, Ha Giang Province and Yen Bai Province ^[e]

French support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war [r]: French technical assistance and sales of military and dual-use equipment, beginning in approximately 1975, to Iraq, and continuing through the Iran-Iraq War; France and the Soviet Union were the leading military suppliers to Iraq ^[e]
Italian support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War [r]: Add brief definition or description

Armored fighting vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
Cluster munition [r]: A military weapon, fired or dropped from another weapon, that releases smaller submunitions that cause the actual destructive effect ^[e]
Future Combat Systems [r]: An cancelled development program,including a variety of military systems, including armored fighting vehicles, unmanned ground vehicles, artillery, precision guided munitions and unmanned aerial vehicles; was an evolutionary step in the restructuring of the United States Army and tailored to the brigade combat team organizational structure but will continue partially in the Brigade Combat Team Modernization ^[e]