The answer may lie in the Russian navy's competition with the land-based nuclear strategic forces for scarce resources.

On the other hand, the Army's infantry and armor forces have been targeted for cuts because of the reduced threat from land-based forces in Europe.

The treaty eliminating land-based intermediate-range nuclear forces will probably pass the Senate when it comes up for a vote next spring.

The battalion is rapidly deployable to provide field medical support for land-based forces.

"I am referring to the land-based forces on Okinawa, com- rade," Sun said.

For Washington, it entails agreeing to limits on space research and living with residual Soviet might in land-based forces.

It is a land-based fighting force with a strength of around 25,000 personnel.

This policy eventually led to a split of the military's land-based forces into mobile and fixed troops in the later Empire.

Ground forces, the land-based military force of a nation, sometimes encompassing other branches of the military.

These have been an American idea to enhance the survivability of land-based forces.