- Industry: NGO
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The United Nations Organization (UNO), or simply United Nations (UN), is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
1. The attack of lines of communication to disrupt supply flows and if possible isolate specific zones or enemy forces therein. 2. preventing transportation of supplies, equipment and troops past a particular point or along some route, especially through the use of air power to destroy bridges, railway junctions, etc.
Industry:Military
1. The authority that a commander in the military Service lawfully exercises over subordinates by virtue of rank or assignment. Command includes the authority and responsibility for effectively using available resources and for planning the employment of, organizing, directing, coordinating, and controlling military or other peace keeping forces for the accomplishment of assigned missions. It also includes responsibility for health, welfare, morale, and discipline of assigned personnel. 2. An order given by a commander, that is, the will of the commander expressed for the purpose of bringing about a particular action. 3. A unit or units, an organization, or an area under the command of one individual. 4. To dominate by a field of weapon fire or by observation from a superior position.
Industry:Military
1. the collection of visual, photographic, infrared or electronic information about enemy forces or terrain; 2. the employment of probing forces (involving combat) to induce the enemy to reveal his dispositions or weapon locations.
Industry:Military
1. the maximum traffic flow of vehicles in one direction at the most restricted point on the route; 2. the maximum number of metric tons that can be moved in one direction over a particular route in one hour; it is the product of the maximum traffic flow and the average payload of the vehicles using the route.
Industry:Military
1. the title most commonly refers to a UN civilian staff member, seconded from DPI in UN secretariat in NY and assigned to the force commander, who coordinates the activities of public relations officers of national contingents, who serves as liaison between the peace-keeping force and the media and serves in an advisory capacity to the force commander or the special representative of the Secretary-General regarding external relations with the local communities and the media, and who sometimes takes on the functions of spokesperson also; is usually a P-5 or P-4; 2. the title may sometimes refer to the information officer of a contingent, who is only responsible for informing the public of his home country on the activities of his particular contingent and for providing members of his contingent with news from the home country and from within the contingent.
Industry:Military
1. to strip serviceable parts from an item of equipment which is beyond repair, in order eventually to install them on other items of equipment;
2. to recover a damaged vehicle or equipment for future repair.
Industry:Military
1. Unit assigned to accompany and protect a convoy of vehicle from being scattered, destroyed or captured, and 2. The mission entrusted to the unit.
Industry:Military
1.Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as TOE; specifically part of an organization.
2. An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force (TF).
3. AQ standard of basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, or used. In this meaning also called "unit of issue"
Industry:Military
A battle casualty other than "killed in action" who has incurred an injury due to an external agent or cause. The term encompasses all kinds of wounds and other injuries incurred in action.
Industry:Military
A board term which includes all petroleum and associated products used by the armed forces.
Industry:Military
