- Industry: Government; Military
- Number of terms: 79318
- Number of blossaries: 0
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The area of land within an operational area of a specific beach or terminal operation — usually within 5 miles.
Industry:Military
The area of a beach extending from the limit of high water foam lines to dunes or extreme inland limit of the beach.
Industry:Military
The area encompassing the amphibious objective area and the adjoining airspace required by accompanying naval forces for the purpose of air defense.
Industry:Military
The appropriate or assigned duties, responsibilities, missions, or tasks of an individual, office, or organization. As defined in the National Security Act of 1947, as amended, the term “function” includes functions, powers, and duties (5 United States Code 171n (a)).
Industry:Military
The appraisal, expressed in writing or orally, of available intelligence relating to a specific situation or condition with a view to determining the courses of action open to the enemy or adversary and the order of probability of their adoption.
Industry:Military
The apportionment of specific numbers and types of nuclear weapons to a commander for a stated time period as a planning factor for use in the development of war plans. (Additional authority is required for the actual deployment of allocated weapons to locations desired by the commander to support the war plans. Expenditures of these weapons are not authorized until released by proper authority. )
Industry:Military
The application of online crypto-operation to a link of a communications system so that all information passing over the link is encrypted in its entirety.
Industry:Military
The application of creative imagination by commanders and staffs — supported by their skill, knowledge, and experience — to design strategies, campaigns, and major operations and organize and employ military forces. Operational art integrates ends, ways, and means across the levels of war.
Industry:Military
The anticipation, communication, prediction, identification, prevention, education, risk assessment, and control of communicable diseases, illnesses and exposure to endemic, occupational, and environmental threats. These threats include nonbattle injuries, combat stress responses, weapons of mass destruction, and other threats to the health and readiness of military personnel. Communicable diseases include anthropod-, vector-, food-, waste-, and waterborne diseases. Preventative medicine measures include field sanitation, medical surveillance, pest and vector control, disease risk assessment, environmental and occupational health surveillance, waste (human, hazardous, and medical) disposal, food safety inspection, and potable water surveillance.
Industry:Military
