- 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.
Procedure whereby a belligerent nation prevents the access of its enemy's coast to vital shipping of foodstuffs and war materials (maritime blockade, "blocus maritime"); in peacetime, can be used as a means of pressure by one power against another (pacific blockade, "blocus pacifique"): it leaves the door open for negotiations.
Industry:Military
Process of extricating a vehicle or equipment casualty from the place where it has become disabled or defective and moving it to the first place where repairs can be effected or from which it can be backloaded or evacuated.
Industry:Military
Proposed by Denmark; brigade on stand-by to intervene immediately when a peace-keeping operation is established by the Security Council, until it is actually deployed; short name for "Multinational United Nations Stand-by Forces High-Readiness Brigade"
Industry:Military
Proposed by Netherlands in a 'non-paper' (A/49/886); a standing international all-volunteer 'fire brigade' (a light infantry brigade of up to 5000 men), distinct from the stand-by forces and made up of individually recruited soldiers, which would be under direct control of the Security Council and would be used for preventive deployment or be sent in advance of, and preparation for, the deployment of stand-by units or of an international peace-keeping force.
Industry:Military
Proposed by the UK for the decentralized storage of equipment for peacekeeping operations in Africa, as part of a regionalization of equipment stockpiles.
Industry:Military
Providing shelter for troops, headquarters, establishments and supplies.
Industry:Military
Provisional name for a UN standing force, the creation of which was proposed by Canada (over the long term); it would be composed of directly recruited volunteers.
Industry:Military
Radar that makes use of the atmospheric reflection and refraction to extend its range beyond line of sight.
Industry:Military
Rail-launched missile carried on-board aircrafts and launched at an enemy radar-guidance antenna, the destruction of which will protect strike aircraft from defending missiles; HARM can identify and home on a wide range of radar frequencies, following a beam down to the antenna that transmits it and then showers the antenna and radar station with specially designed shrapnel.
Industry:Military
Ratio of incoming to outgoing rounds, as logged by military observers, which is then combined with the ratios obtained at other observation posts; the comparison and analysis of these various ratios allows to piece together the total picture of an exchange of fire between several batteries and targets.
Industry:Military
