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A swift, sudden attack from the ocean, putting military ashore on the hostile coast at some point weakly defended by the enemy, has been a powerful tactical and tactical tool since the late Bronze Years. Utilized by the ocean Peoples against New Kingdom Egypt and the Greek city-states in their internecine wars, amphibious warfare put together high flexibility with a solid chance of complete surprise. The technique prolonged used through such times as the early Medieval age, when Viking armies numbering up to 10,000 men struck all of the sudden and devastatingly from the sea utilizing their highly seaworthy longships or "dragonships" (drekkar). At around the same time, the Normans completed amphibious landings of invasion makes, including installed men, in Muslim-occupied Sicily (1061) and Saxon Britain (1066). As navies grew bigger and the Spanish clashed with the Turks in the Mediterranean through the Renaissance, some military forces introduced specialised marines for the very first time. These men, trained specially for landings completed using ships' boats, made a part of many Western european navies from the 16th hundred years onward. World War II, however, observed a sudden explosion in the scope and metamorphosis in the methods of amphibious warfare. With battlefields covering significant portions of the planetary surface, combined with the availability of the modern era's powerful technology and vehicles, the mighty conflict observed tactical and tactical amphibious functions unlike any the earth experienced seen before.
