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land forces

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plural noun

  1. armed forces serving on land

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But the lesson isn’t that land forces are obsolete, it is that strategy must be disciplined.

From The Wall Street Journal May 3, 2026

But he said the path to war was not "inexorable" if the UK re-established credible land forces to support its strategy of deterrence to avoid war.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2024

The U.S. has to do what it can to try and close the gap, and land forces are part of the equation.”

From Washington Times Nov. 9, 2023

North Korea's navy has historically been dwarfed by the country's land forces, and overshadowed by its rapidly advancing ballistic missile program.

From Reuters Sep. 8, 2023

After that, land forces had captured three forts guarding the city of Mobile, which meant that the Confederacy had lost its most essential port on the Gulf of Mexico.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

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