- 업종: Government; Military
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A combat arms organization capable of planning, conducting, and supporting special operations activities in all operational environments in peace, conflict, and war. It consists of a group headquarters and headquarters company, a support company, and special forces battalions. The group can operate as a single unit, but normally the battalions plan and conduct operations from widely separated locations. The group provides general operational direction and synchronizes the activities of subordinate battalions. Although principally structured for unconventional warfare, special forces group units are capable of task-organizing to meet specific requirements.
Industry:Military
A collective term to describe military actions conducted by forces of two or more nations, usually undertaken within the structure of a coalition or alliance.
Industry:Military
A collective term for uniformed military personnel (usually not applicable to naval personnel afloat).
Industry:Military
A collective term encompassing both national defense and foreign relations of the United States. Specifically, the condition provided by: a. A military or defense advantage over any foreign nation or group of nations; b. A favorable foreign relations position; or c. A defense posture capable of successfully resisting hostile or destructive action from within or without, overt or covert.
Industry:Military
A collection system, platform, or capability that is supporting, assigned, or attached to a particular commander.
Industry:Military
A collection system, platform, or capability that is not assigned or attached to a specific unit or echelon which must be requested and coordinated through the chain of command.
Industry:Military
A collection strategy that emphasizes the ability of some collection systems to linger on demand in an area to detect, locate, characterize, identify, track, target, and possibly provide battle damage assessment and retargeting in near or real-time. Persistent surveillance facilitates the prediction of an adversary’s behavior and the formulation and execution of preemptive activities to deter or forestall anticipated adversary courses of action.
Industry:Military
A collection of related deception events that form a major component of a deception operation.
Industry:Military
A code which provides no security but which has as its sole purpose the shortening of messages rather than the concealment of their content.
Industry:Military
A cloud which rolls out from the bottom of the column produced by a subsurface burst of a nuclear weapon. For underwater bursts the surge is, in effect, a cloud of liquid droplets which has the property of flowing almost as if it were a homogeneous fluid. For subsurface land bursts the surge is made up of small solid particles but still behaves like a fluid.
Industry:Military
