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The Barrayaran Landing Forces Command (LANFORCOM) is a military branch of service of the Imperial Service. First formed just before the Invasion of Komarr as Imperial Marine Corps, the force undertook significant spaceborne operations, both in the two major wars (Invasion of Komarr and the Escobaran Campaign) and in other, smaller military operations. Being a spaceborne organization, the Landing Forces are attached to forces assigned to Space Forces Command: there is at least one infantry brigade permanently attached to each of the major fleets. The Barrayaran military doctrine calls for the Landing Forces to be used as shock troops spearheading an assault that would be followed up by ground forces. Its primary wartime missions is to seize and hold strategic places and to make spaceborne t

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rdfs:comment	The Barrayaran Landing Forces Command (LANFORCOM) is a military branch of service of the Imperial Service. First formed just before the Invasion of Komarr as Imperial Marine Corps, the force undertook significant spaceborne operations, both in the two major wars (Invasion of Komarr and the Escobaran Campaign) and in other, smaller military operations. Being a spaceborne organization, the Landing Forces are attached to forces assigned to Space Forces Command: there is at least one infantry brigade permanently attached to each of the major fleets. The Barrayaran military doctrine calls for the Landing Forces to be used as shock troops spearheading an assault that would be followed up by ground forces. Its primary wartime missions is to seize and hold strategic places and to make spaceborne t
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abstract	The Barrayaran Landing Forces Command (LANFORCOM) is a military branch of service of the Imperial Service. First formed just before the Invasion of Komarr as Imperial Marine Corps, the force undertook significant spaceborne operations, both in the two major wars (Invasion of Komarr and the Escobaran Campaign) and in other, smaller military operations. Being a spaceborne organization, the Landing Forces are attached to forces assigned to Space Forces Command: there is at least one infantry brigade permanently attached to each of the major fleets. The Barrayaran military doctrine calls for the Landing Forces to be used as shock troops spearheading an assault that would be followed up by ground forces. Its primary wartime missions is to seize and hold strategic places and to make spaceborne tactical landings behind enemy lines as well as defending critical basing areas. They are troops intended for landing, or which have already landed on enemy-occupied territory for the purpose of conducting combat operations. According to the space-planet transportation method used, a landing force may be amphibious, airborne, or combined; and according to its scale and purpose, such a force may be strategic, operational, or tactical. In carrying out operations, the Landing Forces unit commanders are given a broader power to evaluate and make decisions based on their own observations and calculations. A Landing Forces unit commander has similar decision powers to a starship commander. Units deployed aboard a starship operate under a similar method: in addition to reporting to the command in which the battalion or company serves, the Landing Forces Detachment Commander reports directly to the ship's commander. A starship-bound Landing Forces Detachment receives orders in much the same way: long-term and broad tasks are assigned by the Detachment's LF command, while the vessel's commander is responsible for assigning short-term objectives and goals. The Landing forces formations are equipped with armoured fighting vehicles, artillery and anti-aircraft guns, trucks and off-road vehicles. Thus LF units and formations possess superior mobility and fire power with these vehicles. Each division has all three regiments equipped with them and their derivatives. In 3000, the Landing Forces Command had around 250,000 active duty soldiers, being the smallest of the combat branches of the Imperial Service. Officers have a higher proportion of ex-NCOs in them than is average for the Imperial Service.

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