Land War
Terrestrial military engagement
A land war is armed conflict fought primarily on the ground by infantry and armored forces, as distinct from naval or aerial warfare.
The phrase appears most often in the idiom never get involved in a land war in Asia—a warning against protracted ground conflicts in difficult terrain, popularized by the film *The Princess Bride* but rooted in historical military thinking about the perils of such engagements.
- guerrilla warfareIrregular combat using ambushes
- boots on the groundMilitary presence in area
- front linesActive battle area
- artilleryLarge-caliber battlefield weapons
- cavalryMounted military force
battlefield strategy · battle plan · border conflicts · peasant revolts · terrain · topography · indigenous resistance · colonial expansion · siege · scorched earth · occupation · territorial disputes · infantry · choke points · logistics · river crossings · enemy lines · mountain passes
Land Warnaval warfare
Military operations at sea
air war · aerial warfare · naval combat · submarine warfare · space war