Expeditionary warfare is a military invasion of a foreign territory, especially away from established bases. Expeditionary forces were in part the antecedent of the modern concept of

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s. Traditionally, expeditionary forces were essentially self-sustaining with an organic

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capability and with a full array of supporting arms.

In the ancient world

The earliest examples of expeditionary warfare come from the

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, a term used for a confederation of seafaring raiders of the second millennium BC who sailed into the eastern shores of the

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, caused political unrest, and attempted to enter or control

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ian territory during the late 19th dynasty, and especially during Year 8 of

Ramesses III Usermaatre Meryamun Ramesses III (also written Ramses and Rameses) was the second Pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty in Ancient Egypt. He is thought to have reigned from 26 March 1186 to 15 April 1155 BC and is considered to be the last great monar ...

of the

20th Dynasty The Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XX, alternatively 20th Dynasty or Dynasty 20) is the third and last dynasty of the Ancient Egyptian New Kingdom period, lasting from 1189 BC to 1077 BC. The 19th and 20th Dynasties furthermore toget ...

The raiding tactics were expanded into the more complex expeditionary warfare operations by

Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip II to ...

who used naval vessels for both troop transporting and

in his campaigns against the Persian Empire. The next exponents of expeditionary warfare in the ancient world of the Mediterranean Basin were the

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who introduced two entirely new dimensions to the use of naval forces by staging not only operations that combined naval and

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troops, but also eventuated in combining strategic multi-national forces during the land phase of the operation when Hannibal in his most famous achievement at the outbreak of the Second Punic War marched an army, which included war elephants, from

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over the

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and the

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into northern

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. Following on the example of Carthage, the

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used expeditionary operations extensively to expand their Empire and influence in the Mediterranean and beyond, including the Roman conquest of Britain which was not only a limited expeditionary operation, but one conceived to include long-term

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and Roman settlement of the territories. Han_Expansion

The Han Dynasty of ancient China also famously used expeditionary warfare to deal with the nomadic

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people during the

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. Under the orders of Emperor Wu of Han, the Han launched numerous long-distance raids deep into Xiongnu territory. The exploits of famed Han generals

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and Huo Qubing were of particular note, with both recording multiple successful expeditions between the years 127 and 119 BC, eventually annexing the

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and expelling the Xiongnu from the

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. The expeditionary Han forces were primarily made up of cavalry and were typically arrayed in columns. They also frequently crossed vast distances–Huo Qubing is said to have travelled 2,000 ''li'', roughly 620 miles, during one of his raids.

In the Middle Ages

Shortly after the collapse of the Roman empire in Italy, the European

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began with an expedition of imperial

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general

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against the

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. But as that empire dwindled, its warfare became more defensive. The most prominent development of expeditionary warfare during the European

came from the environmental pressures in the

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n region during the Middle Ages, and the emergence of the

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migrations that combined raiding, longer term inland operations, occupation and settlement. These operations were conducted as sea,

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and riverine operations, and sometimes were strategic in nature, reaching as far as

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. Expeditionary warfare in

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began very much in the same way it had in the Mediterranean with short-term raids by Japanese pirates. Because the

Wokou ''Wokou'' (; Japanese: ''Wakō''; Korean: 왜구 ''Waegu''), which literally translates to "Japanese pirates" or "dwarf pirates", were pirates who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th century to the 16th century.

were weakly resisted by the

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, the raiding eventually developed into fully-fledged expeditionary warfare with the

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(1592–1598).

During the Crusades

The development in expeditionary operations reached a new level when during the

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the element of political alliance as an influence on the military strategy was introduced, for example in the Sixth Crusade (AD 1228.)

The rise of European colonial empires

Although all expeditionary warfare until the invention of the combustion engine was largely dependent on the sailing vessels, it was with the creation of sophisticated rigging systems of the European

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that the Age of Sail allowed a significant expansion in expeditionary warfare, notably by the European

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. Some have argued that this was the first revolution in military affairs that changed national strategies, operational methods and

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both at sea and on the land. One notable example of this evolution was the French Invasion of Egypt (1798). Though a significantly expanded expeditionary operation, the

Crimean War The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included the ...

was the first example of a planned expeditionary campaign that was directed as part of a multinational coalition strategy. Aside from being the first modern expeditionary operation that used steam powered warships and

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communications which marked it as the departing point for the rest of the 19th and 20th century developments. It was also the first used as a military theatre instrument to force decision in the conflict, in what proved to be the last use of the sailing vessels in military expeditions. Perhaps unique in the development of expeditionary warfare were the operations by

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during the

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which was a largely land-based operation. This eventually led to the Russian settlement of the

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and the

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of the Pacific Ocean. The next development in the evolution of the expeditionary warfare was made during the expansion of the western European empires and the era of

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that also led to the inclusion of the expeditionary methods into the direct expression of national strategies to avoid full-scale conflicts in the shape of the

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approach. It was at this time that naval troops previously used almost exclusively for defence of vessels or minor beach operations were expanded to enable extended

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operations. The colonial experience, though largely confined to the period before the

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, persisted well into the 20th century. Unique in this period was the emergence of non-empire building multinational (though not coalition) operations to defeat the Boxer Rebellion by the Eight-Nation Alliance that can be categorised as possibly the first peacekeeping operation in the modern era.

The World Wars

First World War

The period of the

that prolonged well past its completion into the 1920s saw expeditionary warfare established as a systematic and planned type of operations with larger scope than simple transportations of troops to the theatre such as the British Expeditionary Force in 1914, Russian Expeditionary Force in 1916, and the American Expeditionary Force in 1917, and the beginnings of development in true combined operations at strategic, operational and tactical levels with the unsuccessful amphibious landing at Gallipoli. Not only did this operation combine the elements of overall war planning context, multinational deployment of forces as part of the same operation, and use of troops prepared for the landings (as opposed to disembarkation), as well as

naval gunfire support Naval gunfire support (NGFS) (also known as shore bombardment) is the use of naval artillery to provide fire support Fire support is defined by the United States Department of Defense as " Fires that directly support land, maritime, amphibiou ...

that was only limited during the era of sailing ships, but also included extensive use of

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in support of the

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. One of the most extensive and complex of expeditionary operations that followed the war was the

Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War or Allied Powers intervention in the Russian Civil War consisted of a series of multi-national military expeditions which began in 1918. The Allies first had the goal of helping the Czechoslovak Leg ...

that saw forces deployed in the Baltic region, the

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, along the

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coast, and in the

Russian Far East The Russian Far East (russian: Дальний Восток России, r=Dal'niy Vostok Rossii, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a region in Northeast Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent; and is admin ...

Other expeditionary forces during WWI included: * Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (Pacific) * Belgian Expeditionary Corps in Russia 1915–1918 * Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914–1920 *

First Australian Imperial Force The First Australian Imperial Force (1st AIF) was the main expeditionary force of the Australian Army during the First World War. It was formed as the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) following Britain's declaration of war on Germany on 15 Au ...

(Europe) * Indian Expeditionary Force 1914–1918 *

South African Overseas Expeditionary Force The South African Overseas Expeditionary Force (SAOEF) was a volunteer military organisation in World War I. Organisation The South African government formed the South African Overseas Expeditionary Force (''SAOEF'') in July 1915, as part of ...

1915–1919 * New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1914–1918 *

Portuguese Expeditionary Corps The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps (CEP, Portuguese: ''Corpo Expedicionário Português'') was the main military force from Portugal that fought in the Western Front, during World War I. Portuguese neutrality ended in 1916 after the Portuguese ...

1917–1918 * Siamese Expeditionary Force 1917-1918

Second World War

The British Expeditionary Force (bef) in France 1939-1940 O87

Afrika Korps The Afrika Korps or German Africa Corps (, }; DAK) was the German expeditionary force in Africa during the North African Campaign of World War II. First sent as a holding force to shore up the Italian defense of its African colonies, the ...

* Brazilian Expeditionary Force * British Expeditionary Force * Canadian Corps *

China Expeditionary Army The was a general army of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1939 to 1945. The China Expeditionary Army was established in September 1939 from the merger of the Central China Expeditionary Army and Japanese Northern China Area Army, and was headq ...

(Imperial Japanese Army) *

Chinese Expeditionary Force The Chinese Expeditionary Force () was an expeditionary unit of China's National Revolutionary Army that was dispatched to Burma and India in support of the Allied efforts against the Imperial Japanese Army during the Japanese invasion and occu ...

(Chinese Army) *

Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia During World War II, the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia (''Corpo di Spedizione Italiano in Russia'', or CSIR) was a corps-sized expeditionary unit of the '' Regio Esercito'' (Italian Army) that fought on the Eastern Front. In July 1942 th ...

Second Australian Imperial Force The Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF, or Second AIF) was the name given to the volunteer expeditionary force of the Australian Army in the Second World War. It was formed following the declaration of war on Nazi Germany, with an initia ...

Contemporary

European Union

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* European Maritime Force

NATO

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* Allied Rapid Reaction Corps

United Kingdom

* 3rd Division (United Kingdom) * 16 Air Assault Brigade *

3 Commando Brigade 3 Commando Brigade (3 Cdo Bde), previously called the 3rd Special Service Brigade, is a commando formation of the British Armed Forces. It is composed of the Royal Marine Commandos, alongside commando qualified sailors, soldiers and airmen from ...

* Joint Expeditionary Force (Maritime) * UK Joint Expeditionary Force * Combined Joint Expeditionary Force * Joint Rapid Reaction Force * No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group **No. 901 Expeditionary Air Wing **No. 902 Expeditionary Air Wing ** No. 903 Expeditionary Air Wing ** No. 904 Expeditionary Air Wing **No. 906 Expeditionary Air Wing * Expeditionary Air Wing **No. 34 Expeditionary Air Wing **No. 38 Expeditionary Air Wing **No. 121 Expeditionary Air Wing **No. 135 Expeditionary Air Wing ** No. 138 Expeditionary Air Wing **No. 140 Expeditionary Air Wing

United States

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** Carrier Strike Group One ** Carrier Strike Group Two ** Carrier Strike Group Three **

Carrier Strike Group Five Carrier Strike Group 5, also known as CSG 5 or CARSTRKGRU 5, is the U.S. Navy carrier strike group assigned to the United States Pacific Fleet and permanently forward deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet. CSG 5 is responsible for unit-level training ...

** Carrier Strike Group Eight **

Carrier Strike Group Nine Carrier Strike Group 9 (CSG-9 or CARSTRKGRU 9) is a U.S. Navy carrier strike group. Carrier strike groups gain and maintain sea control as well as project naval airpower ashore. Commander Carrier Strike Group 9 (COMCARSTRKGRU 9 or CCSG 9) is res ...

** Carrier Strike Group Ten **

Carrier Strike Group Eleven Carrier Strike Group 11 (CSG-11 or CARSTRKGRU 11) is a U.S. Navy carrier strike group. Carrier strike groups gain and maintain sea control as well as project naval airpower ashore. The aircraft carrier is the strike group's current flagship. O ...

** Carrier Strike Group Twelve Expeditionary Strike Group 3

Expeditionary Strike Group In the United States Navy, the expeditionary strike group (ESG) is a coordinated group of surface ships, aircraft, submarines, and other naval assets. In contrast to carrier strike groups (CSGs), which emphasize air power and are led by a super ...

* Marine Expeditionary Force ** I Marine Expeditionary Force ** II Marine Expeditionary Force **

III Marine Expeditionary Force III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF) is a formation of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force of the United States Marine Corps. It is forward-deployed and able to rapidly conduct operations across the spectrum from humanitarian assistance and ...

* Marine Expeditionary Brigade ** 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ** 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade **

3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade The 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade is a United States Marine Corps unit that is the "middleweight" crises response force of choice in the Pacific Area of Operation. It is the Marine Corps’ only permanently forward-deployed Brigade sized Marin ...

Marine Expeditionary Unit A Marine expeditionary unit (MEU, pronounced as one syllable "" IPA: ) is the smallest air-ground task force (MAGTF) in the United States Fleet Marine Force.11th Marine Expeditionary Unit The 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (11th MEU) is one of seven Marine Expeditionary Units currently in existence in the United States Marine Corps. The Marine Expeditionary Unit is a Marine Air Ground Task Force with a strength of about 2,200 ...

13th Marine Expeditionary Unit The 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (13th MEU) is one of seven Marine Expeditionary Units currently in existence in the United States Marine Corps. The Marine Expeditionary Unit is a Marine Air Ground Task Force with a strength of about 2,200 p ...

15th Marine Expeditionary Unit The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (15th MEU) is one of seven such units currently in existence in the United States Marine Corps. The Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) is a Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) with a strength of about 2,200 pe ...

** 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit **

24th Marine Expeditionary Unit The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24th MEU) is one of seven Marine Expeditionary Units currently in existence in the United States Marine Corps. The Marine Expeditionary Unit is a Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) with a strength of about ...

** 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit **

31st Marine Expeditionary Unit The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU) is one of seven Marine Expeditionary Units in existence in the United States Marine Corps. The Marine Expeditionary Unit is a Marine Air Ground Task Force with a strength of about 2,200 Marines and ...

* List of Air Expeditionary units of the United States Air Force (43 of them)

References

External links

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