Capturing ground is relative if you yeet an entire enemy force into extinction. I mean they no longer hold said ground because they no longer exist.
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But neither do you, unless you put boots on the ground.
Sometimes you don't need boots on the ground, you just need to put a JDAM or Tomahawk in the right SoB's window, or wreck whatever allows your enemy to threaten you.
Operation Preying Mantis against Iran, for example, didn't need any boots on the ground.
AnimalNoodles
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Until you put a 17 year old kid with a rifle on it, you dont own it.
If you completely and totally destroy the enemy force and say anyone entering this territory other than us gets yeeted. You do own it. Fear of trespass is a thing you know. We have whole islands with no one living on it and it is counted as our territory.
I think a bunch of islands the US claims in the Pacific, and yet no one lives on, would act as a great counter-example to that. Those islands could be occupied with just a few squads, yet because of where they are, getting an invasion for to them would be farcical.
If you can deny the enemy the ability to either carry out an invasion (that would then have to be counter-invaded) or leave their own ports/bases intact, you don't need to put boots on the ground to win.
And again, just look at Operation Preying Mantis for proof.
Army has its own boats.
And we technically don't need the AF.
I mean we do for AB but not AA
Too busy capturing girls hearts I'm afraid
Simonbob
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Not UN soldiers either. Althought I guess they are more or less interchangeable.Dude!
They're not Satanists!
Ixian
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The Marines are just a Department of the Navy, so technically even when the Marines go in first, it's really the mighty US Navy.
Marines will disagree
Ixian
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Smart Marines will say "Mens Department". Thankfully they are rare.
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PFFF-! Next thing you tell Bigfoots are real and having tea time with Roswell aliens every thursday.
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Marines were originally a part of the Navy, if one goes back far enough. I don't know offhand if anyone other than America made them into a distinct "service".
Vyor
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Americans never did.
Ixian
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My favorite part of US military history is that the US Navy is actually older than the United States.
Edit: My poor bloody infantry cousin just informed me that the Congress of the Confederation established the army in June, while the navy wasn't established until October.
BUT, in my opinion, because of the fact that the same ships and crews that would become the navy were already attacking British ships before that, I should still be considered technically correct. Which is the best kind of correct.
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Technically the Army National Guard was before it all being in thr 1600s.