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All the land, water, and air routes that connect an operating military force with one or more bases of operations, and along which supplies and reinforcements move. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Finally, areas with medium to high anti-coalition militia activities or major ground lines of communications (LOCs), such as the Ring Road that connects the major cities, were selected. Ireland also seeks to emphasize and re-emphasize the myriad realistic problems inherent in expeditionary operations caused by overextended lines of communications, unclear objectives, lack of resources and political interference. As a rule, military transport movements were performed within the framework of systematic combat operations, but redeployment of big military units (as big as an infantry division in one go) again turned into naval operations aimed to defend sea lines of communications, necessitating assistance from the main fleet forces. |
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