A landing operation is a military action aimed at a bringing the landing force usually via landing craft to a shore or to land with the purpose of power projection ashore by forces coming usually from ships and also aircraft and able to fight.
Landing may refer to bringing of either the seafaring (naval landing forces; see amphibious warfare) or airborne forces (air landing troops).
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