Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A landing operation is a military action aimed at a bringing the landing force usually via landing craft to a shore or to land with the purpose of power projection ashore by forces coming usually from ships and also aircraft and able to fight.Landing may refer to bringing of either the seafaring (naval landing forces; see amphibious warfare) or airborne forces (air landing troops).In a military invasion conducted by sea, the landing and establishment of a beachhead is a critical phase. In the Iliad, the landing operation of the Achaean navy is described in book three. Since the Trojans had been warned of the invasion, the beach was defended. In Greek polytheism, the were sacrifices offered to the gods after a successful landing. A was a dignified speech delivered upon disembarkation, contrasting with an , the speech delivered upon departure.