- Industry: Government; Military
- Number of terms: 79318
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A target the enemy commander requires for the successful completion of the mission. The loss of high-value targets would be expected to seriously degrade important enemy functions throughout the friendly commander’s area of interest.
Industry:Military
A target of opportunity that was unknown or not expected to exist in the operational environment.
Industry:Military
A target of opportunity that is known to exist in the operational environment.
Industry:Military
A tailored team that, when directed, deploys to a supported combatant commander’s area of responsibility to provide chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear technical advice and planning assistance for executing foreign consequence management.
Industry:Military
A tailorable, temporary location used for staging forces, sustainment and/or extraction into and out of an operational area.
Industry:Military
A tailorable support organization composed of mobilization station assets that ensures the equipment of the deploying units is ready to load. The port support activity operates unique equipment in conjunction with ship loading operations. The port support activity is operationally controlled by the military port commander or terminal transfer unit commander.
Industry:Military
A tactical subdivision of a larger area, the responsibility for which is assigned to a tactical unit; generally applied to offensive action.
Industry:Military
A tactical maneuver in which troops, either air-dropped or air-landed, attack the rear and flanks of a force, in effect cutting off or encircling the force.
Industry:Military
A tactical maneuver employed to seriously impair a hostile attack while the enemy is in the process of forming or assembling for an attack. Usually employed by armored units in defense by an attack on enemy assembly positions in front of a main line of resistance or battle position.
Industry:Military
