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Littoral warfare
Military operations in coastal waters / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In military and naval warfare, littoral warfare is operations in and around the littoral zone, within a certain distance of shore, including surveillance, mine-clearing and support for landing operations and other types of combat shifting from water to ground, and back.
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