GLOSSARY
- A²C²
- Army airspace command and control
- AADIC
- area air defense commander
- AAGS
- Army Air-Ground System
- AAWC
- antiair warfare commander
- AAWS
- antiair warfare section
- ABCA
- American, British, Canadian, Australian
- ABCCC
- airborne battlefield command and control center
- ACC
- air component commander
- ACCS
- Army Command and Control System
- ACE
- analysis and control element (Army); aviation combat
element (Air Force)
- ACOM
- United States Atlantic Command--a unified, maritime command
- ACR
- armored cavalry regiment
- ACSIM
- assistant chief of staff for installation management
- active missile defense
- measures taken to intercept, destroy, or negate
the effects of an enemy missile launch
- ACU
- area common user
- AD
- air defense
- ADA
- air defense artillery
- ADC
- area damage control
- ADCOM
- air defense command
- ADCON
- administrative control
- ADCOORD
- air defense artillery coordinator
- admin
- administration
- ADPE
- automatic data processing equipment
- ADPU
- automatic data processing unit
- AET
- assessment and evaluation team
- AFAC
- airborne forward air controller
- AFCC
- Air Force component commander
- AFCENT
- Allied Forces Central Europe
- AFSCC
- Air Force service component command
- AFSOC
- Air Force special operations component
- AFSOD
- Air Force special operations detachments
- AFSOE
- Air Force special operations elements
- AFSOF
- Air Force special operations forces
- AGCCS
- Army Global Command and Control System
- AHFEWS
- Army High-Frequency Electronic Warfare System
- AID
- United States Agency for International Development
- ALCOM
- Alaskan Command
- allocation
- the translation of apportionment into total numbers
of resources
- all-source analysis system
- a system that collects and fuses intelligence
data to support the commander's decision-making process
- ALOC
- air lines of communication
- AME
- air mobility element
- AMEDD
- Army medical department
- AMOPES
- Army Mobilization and Operations Planning and Execution System
- amphibious objective area
- a geographical area--delineated in the
initiating directive for command and control--within which the objectives
to be secured by the amphibious task force are located
- ANGLICO
- air and naval gunfire liaison company
- AO
- area of operations
- AOA
- amphibious objective area
- AOB
- alternate operating base
- AOC
- air operations center
- AofI
- area of interest
- AOR
- area of responsibility
- APA
- Army pre-positioned afloat
- APOD
- aerial port of debarkation
- apportionment
- the determination and assignment of the total expected
effort by percentage and/or by priority that should be devoted to the
various air operations and/or geographic areas for a given period of time
- area of assistance
- area of land, sea, and air designated for the conduct
of peacetime military operations other than war
- area of conflict
- area of land, sea, and air designated for the conduct
of hostile military operations other than war
- area of operations
- a geographical area assigned to an army commander
by a higher commander; the AO has lateral, forward, and rear boundaries
that usually define it within a larger joint geographical area
- area of responsibility
- a defined area of land or sea in which
responsibility is specifically assigned to the combatant commander of the
theater for the development and maintenance of installations, control
of movement, and conduct of joint operations involving troops under his
control, along with parallel authority to exercise these functions
- AREC
- air resource element coordinator
- ARL
- aerial reconnaissance low
- ARLO
- Army liaison officer
- ARFOR
- Army forces, the headquarters and mission forces assigned
to an Army service component command, subordinate joint force
command, or multinational command
- ARFOR commander
- the senior army commander
- Army Command and Control System
- a system that encompasses the
command and control systems, communications, and hardware and software required to
implement the Army's portion of the Joint Operations Planning and Execution System and
execute full-dimensional operations doctrine
- Army service component commander
- the senior army
commander of an Army service component command assigned to a unified
command; referred to as commander the ASCC: the
ASCC performs service functions assigned by the UNAAF for the
Army forces within the command and performs three strategic and
operational-level tasks-- establishes linkages, conducts operations, and
conducts support operations; the ASCC functions in both the operational
and service chain of command
- ARSOA
- Army special operations aviation
- ARSOC
- Army special operations component
- ARSOCC
- Army special operations component commander
- ARSOF
- Army special operations forces
- ASA-FM
- Assistant Secretary of the Army for
Financial Management
- ASAS
- all-source analysis system
- ASCC
- Army service component commander
- ASCS
- air support control section
- ASE
- Army support element
- ASG
- area support group
- ASI
- all-source intelligence
- ASM
- air-to-surface missile
- ASMB
- area support medical battalion
- ASMP
- Army Strategic Mobility Program
- ASOC
- air support operations center
- assign
- to place units or personnel in an organization where
such placement is relatively permanent and the organization controls and
administers the units or personnel for the primary function, or greater portion
of the functions, of the unit or personnel
- ASUWC
- antisurface warfare commander
- ASWC
- antisubmarine warfare command
- ATACMS
- Army Tactical Missile System
- ATARS
- Advanced Tactical Air Reconnaissance System
- ATCS
- air traffic control section
- ATF
- amphibious task force
- ATO
- air tasking order
- attack operations
- actions taken to neutralize or destroy an
adversary's ability to produce, deploy, and employ theater missiles
- ATTN
- attention
- auto
- automation
- AUTODIN
- automatic digital network
- AVIM
- aviation intermediate maintenance
- AVUM
- aviation unit maintenance
- AWACS
- Airborne Warning and Control System
- battle
- a series of related tactical engagements
- battle command
- the art of motivating and directing soldiers
and their organizations into action to accomplish missions; includes
visualizing a future state and formulating concepts of operations to achieve
that state, assigning missions, prioritizing and allocating resources, and
selecting the critical time and place to act
- battle management and command, control, communications, and intelligence
-
the process of coordinating and integrating joint and service capabilities to conduct
passive defense, active missile defense, and attack operations
- battlefield coordination element
- an Army fire support
coordination element located at an Air Force air operations center whose function
is to monitor and interpret the land battle situation and provide land force needs for
tactical air support to the air operations center and the Air Force component commander
- battle space
- components determined by the maximum
capabilities of a unit to acquire and dominate the enemy; includes areas beyond the
AO; varies over time according to how the commander positions his assets
- BCE
- battlefield coordination element
- BCOC
- base cluster operations center
- BDA
- battle damage assessment
- BDCT
- base defense coordination team
- bde
- brigade
- BDOC
- base defense operations center
- BIDS
- biological identification/detection system
- bn
- battalion
- branches
- options for changing dispositions, orientation,
or direction of movement and accepting or declining battle; branches preserve the
commander's freedom of action
- C²
- command and control
- C²W
- command and control warfare
- C3
- command, control, and communications
- C3CM
- command, control, and communications
countermeasures
- C3I
- command, control, communications, and intelligence
- C3IC
- coalition coordination, communications, and
integration center
- C4
- command, control, communications, and computers
- C4I
- command, control, communications, computers,
and intelligence
- C4IS
- Command, Control, Communications, and Computers
Information System
- CA
- civil affairs
- C&C
- collection and classification
- CALL
- Center for Army Lessons Learned
- CAD
- combat arms division
- campaign
- a series of related military operations designed to
achieve one or more strategic or operational objectives within a given time and space
- campaign plan
- a plan for a series of related military operations
aimed to achieve one or more strategic and operational objectives within a given time
and space
- CAP
- crisis action planning
- CAS
- close air support
- CATF
- commander, amphibious task force
- CCT
- combat control team
- C-Day
- the unnamed day deployment operations commence
- CDC
- combat direction center
- CENTCOM
- United States Central Command
- CFC
- Combined Forces Command (Korea)
- CHS
- combat health support
- CI
- counterintelligence
- CIA
- Central Intelligence Agency
- CID
- criminal investigation division
- CINC
- the commander in chief of a unified or specified command
- CINCPAC
- Commander in Chief, Pacific
- CJCS
- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- CJTF
- commander of the joint task force
- CM
- cruise missile
- CMISE
- corps military intelligence support element
- CNR
- combat net radio
- co
- company
- COA
- course of action
- COCOM
- combatant command
- CofS
- chief of staff
- COID
- combat operations intelligence division
- combatant command
- one of the unified or specified commands
established by the President; nontransferable authority established by Title l0, United States
Code, Section 134, exercised by combatant commanders; COCOM provides full authority
to organize and employ commands and forces as the CINC considers necessary to
accomplish assigned missions; the authority to perform those functions of command
over assigned forces involving organizing and employing commands and forces,
assigning tasks, designating objectives, and giving authoritative direction over all
aspects of military operations, joint training, and logistics necessary to accomplish
the missions assigned to the command
- combatant commander
- a commander in chief of a combatant command
- combat power
- the four primary elements--maneuver, firepower, protection,
and leadership combine to create combat power--the ability to fight; through effective application
and sustainment, in concert with one another, these elements will decide the outcome of
campaigns, major operations, battles, and engagements
- combat zone
- that area required by combat forces for the
conduct of operations forward of the ARFOR rear area boundary
- COMCARGRU
- commander, carrier battle group
- comdt
- commandant
- commander's intent
- a concise expression of the purpose of the
operation, a description of the desired end state and how the posture of units at the
current operation end state facilitates transition to future operations; may include the
commander's vision of how operations will progress toward that end
- communications zone
- the rear part of the theater that is
contiguous to the combat zone; contains those theater installations and
organizations required to support combat and combat support forces; has a
three-dimensional aspect and reaches back to the CONUS base
- COMMZ
- communications zone
- compt
- comptroller
- COMSEC
- communications security
- COMSOC
- commander of the special operations command
- CONPLAN
- operation plan in concept format
- constraint
- actions the commander must take or methods that
must be employed
- CONUS
- continental United States
- coordinating authority
- the authority granted to a commander
or individual assigned responsibility for coordinating specific functions or activities
involving forces of two or more countries or commands, two or more services, or two
or more forces of the same service; this authority can require consultation among
involved agencies or their representatives but cannot compel agreement; unresolved
disagreements are referred to the appropriate authority
- CORDS
- Civil Operations Revolutionary Development Support
- COSCOM
- corps support command
- countermobility
- to delay, channel, or stop offensive movement
by the enemy in order to destroy enemy forces directly or indirectly by enhancing the
effectiveness of friendly direct- and indirect-fire weapon systems
- CP
- command post
- CRC
- control and reporting center
- crisis action planning
- the JOPES process involving the time-sensitive
development of joint operation plans and orders in response to an imminent crisis; follows
prescribed crisis-action planning to formulate and implement an effective response within
the time frame permitted by the crisis
- CS
- combat support
- CSCE
- communications system control element
- CSD
- combat support division
- CSG
- cryptologic support group
- CSR
- controlled supply rate
- CSS
- combat service support
- CSSAMO
- combat service support automation management office
- CSSD
- combat service support division
- CSSE
- combat service support element
- CTF
- combined task force
- CVBG
- carrier battle group
- CWC
- composite warfare commander
- CZ
- combat zone
- D3
- decide, detect, and deliver
- D3A
- decide, detect, deliver, and assess
- DA
- department of the Army
- DASC
- direct air support center
- DASC-A
- direct air support center (airborne)
- DCA
- defensive counterair
- DCS
- defense communications system
- DCSENG
- deputy chief of staff for engineers
- DCSHNA
- deputy chief of staff for host nation activity
- DCSI
- deputy chief of staff for intelligence
- DCSIM
- deputy chief of staff for information management
- DCSLOG
- deputy chief of staff for logistics
- DCSOPS
- deputy chief of staff for operations
- DCSPER
- deputy chief of staff for personnel
- DCSRM
- deputy chief of staff for resource management
- DCS Sys Auto
- deputy chief of staff for systems automation
- DDN
- Defense Data Network
- DDS
- data distribution system
- DEA
- Drug Enforcement Agency
- deception
- those measures designed to mislead the enemy
by manipulating, distorting, or falsifying evidence to induce the enemy to react in a
manner prejudicial to its interests
- decide, detect, deliver
- targeting process that identifies
enemy targets for possible engagement and determines the appropriate system
to be used to capture, destroy, degrade, or neutralize the target in question
- decisive engagement
- an engagement in which a unit is considered
fully engagement committed and cannot maneuver or extricate itself; in the
absence of outside assistance, the action must be fought to a conclusion and either won
or lost with the forces at hand
- Defense Logistics Agency
- provides logistics support to the Army
in areas of supply support, logistics services, and defense contract
administrative support
- deliberate planning
- the JOPES process involving the development of joint operations plans for contingencies identified in joint strategic planning documents; conducted principally in peacetime; accomplished in prescribed cycles that complement other DOD planning cycles and in accordance with the formally established Joint Strategic Planning System
- DEPCJTF
- deputy commander of the joint
task force
- det
- detachment
- DFSA
- designated finance support activity
- DIA
- Defense Intelligence Agency
- direct support
- a mission requiring a force to support another
specific force and authorizing it to answer the supported force's
request for assistance directly
- DIRLAUTH
- direct liaison authorized
- DISA
- Defense Information System Agency
- DISE
- Deployable Intelligence Support Element
- DISNET
- Defense Information Systems Network
- div
- division
- DLA
- Defense Logistics Agency
- DMA
- Defense Mapping Agency
- DOCC
- deep operations coordination center
- DOD
- Department of Defense
- DOS
- Department of State
- DS
- direct support
- DSE
- deception staff element
- EAC
- echelons above corps
- EEI
- essential elements of information
- ELINT
- electronic intelligence
- EMP
- electromagnetic pulse
- engagement
- small, tactical conflicts, usually between
opposing maneuver forces
- EOD
- explosive ordnance disposal
- EPW
- enemy prisoner of war
- EUCOM
- United States European Command--a unified command
- EUSA
- Eighth United States Army--the Army component to
Combined Forces Command, Korea
- EW
- electronic warfare
- EW/C
- early warning/control
- FAC
- forward air controller
- FAC(A)
- forward air controller (airborne)
- FACP
- forward air control post
- FB
- finance battalion
- FC
- finance command
- FFA
- free-fire area
- FID
- foreign internal defense
- FLOT
- forward line of own troops
- FM
- field manual
- FOB
- forward operating base
- FORSCOM
- United States Army Forces Command--the Army component
of US Atlantic Command (a unified command)
- FSCC
- fire support coordination center
- FSCL
- fire support coordination line
- FSE
- fire support element
- FSS
- fire support section
- FST
- finance support team
- G1
- assistance chief of staff, personnel
- G2
- assistant chief of staff, intelligence
- G3
- assistant chief of staff, operations and plans
- G4
- assistant chief of staff, logistics
- G5
- assistant chief of staff, civil affairs
- G6
- assistant chief of staff, signal
- GCCS
- Global Command and Control System
- GCE
- ground combat element
- GDP
- general defense plan
- GIE
- global information environment
- GLO
- ground liaison officer
- GP
- general purpose
- GS
- general support
- HCS
- helicopter control section
- helo
- helicopter
- HEMCO
- heavy equipment maintenance company
- HHB
- headquarters and headquarters battery
- HHC
- headquarters and headquarters company
- HHD
- headquarters and headquarters detachment
- HNS
- host nation support
- HQ
- headquarters
- HQDA
- Headquarters, Department of the Army
- HSS
- health service support
- HUMINT
- human intelligence
- hvy
- heavy
- I&W
- indications and warnings
- ICAC²
- Integrated Combat Airspace Command and Control
- IES
- imagery exploitation system
- IEW
- intelligence and electronic warfare
- IG
- inspector general
- IGSM
- intermediate general support maintenance
- IMA
- information mission area
- IMET
- international military education and training
- IMINT
- imagery intelligence
- infrastructure
- a term generally applicable to all fixed and
permanent installations, fabrications, or facilities for the support
or control of military forces
- INSCOM
- United States Army Intelligence and Security Command
- intel
- intelligence
- interdiction
- an action to divert, disrupt, delay, or destroy the
enemy's surface military potential before it can be effectively used against friendly
forces
- in-transit
- the immediate access to data pertaining to the location
- visibility
- of materiel in transit from the provider to the
requester
- IO
- international organizations
- IPB
- intelligence-preparation-of-the-battlefield
- IPW
- interrogation prisoner of war
- IR
- information requirements
- ISB
- intermediate support basing
- ISC
- integrated systems control
- ISE
- intelligence support element
- ITO
- integrated tasking order
- J1
- personnel directorate at a joint headquarters
- J2
- intelligence directorate at a joint headquarters
- J3
- operations directorate at a joint headquarters
- J4
- logistics directorate at a joint headquarters
- J5
- plans and policy directorate at a joint headquarters
- J6
- communications-electronics directorate at a joint headquarters
- JCCC
- joint communications control center
- JCGRO
- joint central graves registration office
- JCIOC
- joint counterintelligence operations center
- JCMEB
- joint civil-military engineering board
- JCMEC
- joint captured materiel exploitation center
- JCS
- Joint Chiefs of Staff
- JCSE
- joint communications support element
- JDC
- joint deployment community
- JDEC
- joint documents exploitation center
- JFACC
- joint force air component commander; a COCOM functional option
- JFC
- joint force commander
- JFLCC
- joint force land component commander; a COCOM
functional option
- JFMCC
- joint force maritime component commander; a COCOM
functional option
- JFSOCC
- joint force special operations component commander
- JFUB
- joint facilities utilization board
- JIC
- joint intelligence center
- JIF
- joint interrogation facility
- JIPC
- joint imagery processing center
- JMAO
- joint mortuary affairs office
- JMBPO
- joint military blood program office
- JMC
- joint movement center
- JMCC
- joint movement control center
- JMEC
- joint materiel exploitation center
- JMFU
- joint meteorological forecasting unit
- JMRO
- joint medical regulating office
- JOA
- joint operations area
- JOC
- joint operations center
- joint command
- a subordinate command of a unified command composed
of joint forces and commanded by a subordinate joint force commander exercising operational
control over the joint force
- joint force
- a general term applied to a force that is composed
of significant elements of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force or two or more of
these services operating under a subordinate joint force commander authorized to exercise
operational control over joint forces or service components operating under a unified
commander
- joint operations area
- that portion of an area of conflict in which a
joint force commander conducts military operations pursuant to an assigned mission and
the administration incident to such military operations
- joint rear area
- a specific land area within a joint force commander's
area of operations that is designated to facilitate protection and operation of installations
and forces supporting the joint force
- joint rear area coordinator
- the officer given responsibility for the
overall securing of the JRA and for furnishing a secure environment to facilitate sustainment,
host nation support, infrastructure development, and movements of the joint force
- joint zone
- an area established for the purpose of permitting
friendly surface, air, and subsurface forces to operate simultaneously
- JOPES
- Joint Operations Planning and Execution System
- JPO
- joint petroleum office
- JPOTF
- joint psychological operations task force
- JPOTG
- joint psychological operations task group
- JRA
- joint rear area
- JRAC
- joint rear area coordinator
- JKCC
- joint rescue coordination center
- JSCP
- Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan
- J-SEAD
- joint suppression of enemy air defenses
- JSOA
- joint special operations area
- JSOACC
- joint special operations aviation component command
- JSOCC
- joint special operations component commander
- JSOTF
- joint special operations task force
- JSPS
- Joint Strategic Planning System
- J-STARS
- joint surveillance target and attack radar system
- JTB
- joint targeting board
- JTCB
- joint targeting coordination board
- JTF
- joint task force; a COCOM option
- JTL
- joint target list
- JTLS
- Joint Theater Logistics System
- JTTP
- joint tactics, techniques, and procedures
- JULLS
- Joint Universal Lessons Learned System
- JZ
- joint zone
- LAAD
- low altitude air defense
- LAAM
- light antiaircraft missile
- lab
- laboratory
- LANDCENT
- land component of Allied Forces Central Europe,
subordinate to Allied Command Europe
- LCC
- land component commander
- LEMCO
- light equipment maintenance company
- letter of instruction
- a means for defining interagency
linkages at the operational level
- light forces
- units from an Army light, airborne, or air assault
division or ranger regiment
- line of
- all the routes--land, water and air--that connect an
- communications
- operating military force with a base of operations
and along which supplies and military forces move
- lines of operation
- the directional orientation of a force in relation
to the enemy; lines of operation connect the force with a base of operations and its objective
- linkage
- a relationship between two or more parties, elements, or
commands in any form that formulates a mutual understanding, agreement, or exchange
of information
- littoral theater
- a theater established on a shore or coastal region
where major actions between land, sea, and air operations are combined and must be
synchronized
- lndry
- laundry
- LNO
- liaison officer
- LOC
- line of communication
- LOGCAP
- Logistics Civil Augmentation Program
- logistics
- the process of planning and executing the movement and
sustainment of operating forces to execute military strategy and operations; includes the
design, development, acquisition, storage, movement, distribution, maintenance, evacuation,
and disposition of materiel; the movement, evacuation, and hospitalization of personnel; the
acquisition or construction, maintenance, operations, and disposition of facilities; and the
acquisition or furnishing of services
- logistics support element
- a multifaceted logistical organization with
a work force of DA civilians, military, and contractors that is easily tailored to meet theater
logistics requirements; the LSE can control the interface among strategic, operational, and
tactical logistics
- LOI
- letter of instruction
- LPT
- logistics-preparation-of-the-theater
- LSE
- logistics support element
- MACOM
- major Army command
- MAGTF
- Marine air-ground task force
- main battle area
- the portion of the battlefield in which the decisive
battle is fought to defeat the enemy
- maint
- maintenance
- major operation
- the coordinated actions of large forces in a single
phase of either a theater or subordinate campaign; a major operation could contain a number
of battles or could be a single critical battle
- MARLO
- Marine liaison officer
- MASINT
- measurement and signatures intelligence
- MATCS
- Marine air traffic control squadron
- MBA
- main battle area
- MCA
- movement control agency
- MCC
- movement control center
- MCCC
- Marine Corps component commander
- MCSF
- mobile cryptological support facility
- MDCI
- multidiscipline counterintelligence
- MEDCOM
- medical command
- MEF
- Marine expeditionary force
- METL
- mission-essential task list
- METT-T
- mission, enemy, terrain, troops, and time available
- MI
- military intelligence
- MIA
- missing in action
- military end state
- the required military conditions determined by the
theater commander and integrated into the campaign plan that, when achieved, attains the
strategic objectives or allows the main effort to be assumed by other instruments of national
power to achieve the final strategic end state
- MILNET
- military network
- mission forces
- Army forces assigned, attached, apportioned,
or allocated with an ARFOR commander to an Army service component
command, a subordinate joint force command, or a multinational command to conduct
missions as assigned by these commands
- MLRS
- Multiple Launch Rocket System
- MMC
- materiel management center
- MOA
- memorandum of agreement
- MOE
- measures of effectiveness
- MOOTW
- military operations other than war
- MOPP
- mission-oriented protection posture
- MOS
- military occupational specialty
- MOU
- memorandum of understanding
- MP
- military police
- MRS
- Mobility Requirement Study
- MSCC
- Marine service component command
- MTMC
- Military Traffic Management Command
- MWRO
- morale, welfare, recreation office
- multinational
- diplomatic-military actions between two or more
- operations
- agencies, with armed forces of two or more nations,
to achieve the strategic end state; alliances or coalitions can be formed to carry out these
actions
- NAF
- Naval air facility
- NAFI
- nonappropriated fund instrumentalities
- NALE
- naval and amphibious liaison element
- NATO
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- NAVSOF
- naval special operations forces
- NBC
- nuclear, biological, chemical
- NCA
- National Command Authorities
- NCC
- Naval component commander
- NEO
- noncombatant evacuation operations
- NFA
- no-fire area
- NGO
- nongovernmental organization
- NICP
- national inventory control point
- NIST
- national intelligence support teams
- NSA
- National Security Agency
- NSCC
- Navy service component command
- NSNW
- nonstrategic nuclear weapons
- NSOC
- Navy special operations component
- NSS
- National Security Strategy
- NSWTG
- Naval special warfare task group
- NSWTU
- Naval special warfare task unit
- NTACS
- Navy Tactical Air Control System
- obj
- objective
- OCONUS
- outside the continental United States
- OCA
- offensive counterair
- ODA
- Special Forces Operational A Team
- OP
- operational projects
- OPCOM
- operational command
- OPCON
- operational control
- operational art
- the skillful employment of military forces to attain
strategic and/or operational objectives through the design, organization, integration, and
conduct of theater strategies, campaigns, major operations, and battles; operational art
translates combatant command strategy and theater design into operational design and,
ultimately, tactical action by integrating the key activities of all levels of war within the theater
- operational design
- the design element of Army operational art;
the application of operational art includes the design, organization, and
execution of subordinate campaigns and major operations.
- operational firepower
- to apply the amount of fire that may be
delivered by operational forces through all available means and systems,
the application of firepower and nonlethal means to achieve a decisive impact
on the conduct of a campaign or major operation
- operational-level logistics
- military operations other than war
activities during peacetime and conflict that do not necessarily involve armed clashes
between organized forces
- OPLAN
- operations plan
- opns
- operations
- OPORD
- operations order
- opposed entry
- combat operations required to land deploying forces
- OPSEC
- operations security
- OTC
- officer in tactical command
- PA
- public affairs
- PACOM
- United States Pacific Command
- PAO
- public affairs officer
- passive missile defense
- those individual and collective measures
taken to posture the force to minimize the effects of a missile attack
- PE
- peace enforcement
- peacekeeping operations
- operations using military forces and/or
civilian personnel at the request of the parties to a dispute to help
supervise a cease-fire agreement and/or separate the parties
- PERSCOM
- personnel command
- PIR
- priority intelligence requirements
- plt
- platoon
- PM
- provost marshal
- POTF
- psychological operations task force
- PRC
- population and resource control
- PSD
- personnel service directorate
- PSS
- personnel service support
- PSYOP
- psychological operations
- PVO
- private voluntary organization
- QASAS
- quality assurance specialist - ammunition surveillance
- QSTAG
- quadripartite standardization agreement
- RAOC
- rear area operations center
- RCCM
- regional contingency construction manager
- RCEM
- regional contingency engineering manager
- RDTE
- research, development, test, and evaluation
- REAT
- reconstitution assessment and evaluation team
- recce
- reconnaissance
- renov
- renovation
- restrictions
- prohibitions on specific actions or categories of actions
- RFA
- restricted fire area
- RGFC
- Republican Guard Forces Command
- RISTA
- reconnaissance, intelligence, surveillance, and
target acquisition
- ROC
- rear operations center
- ROE
- rules of engagement
- RPMA
- real property maintenance activities
- RPV
- remotely piloted vehicle
- RSI
- rationalization, standardization, and interoperability
- rules of engagement
- directives issued by competent military authority
that delineate the circumstances and limitations under which US forces will initiate and/or
continue combat engagement with other encountered forces
- RWCM
- regional wartime construction manager
- S1
- personnel officer
- S2
- intelligence officer
- S3
- operations and training officer
- S4
- supply officer
- S5
- civil affairs officer
- S&S
- supply and services
- SACC
- supporting arms coordination center
- SAILS
- Standard Army Intermediate Level Supply System
- SALT
- supporting arms liaison team
- Sandcrab
- AN/TLQ-17A; a jamming/direction-finding system
- SAO
- security assistance office
- SAPO
- subarea petroleum office
- SEAD
- suppression of enemy air defenses
- SECDEF
- Secretary of Defense
- sequels
- actions after operations; sequels are an important
means of anticipating the course of action and accelerating the decision
cycle; they are based on the possible outcomes of operations--victory/success,
defeat/failure, or stalemate; they establish general dispositions, objectives,
and missions for subsequent subordinate operations; they can be amended as
necessary and ordered into effect
- SF
- Special Forces
- SFOB
- Special Forces operating base
- SIGINT
- signals intelligence
- SIGSEC
- signal security
- SJA
- staff judge advocate
- SLOC
- sea lines of communication
- SOA
- special operations aviation
- SOC
- special operations command
- SOCCE
- special operations command and control element
- SOCOM
- United States Special Operations Command
- SOCOORD
- special operations coordination element
- SOF
- special operations forces
- SOFA
- status of forces agreement
- SOFSCC
- special operations forces component command
- SOI
- signal operating instructions
- SOSC
- special operations support command
- SOTSE
- special operations theater support element
- SOUTHCOM
- United States Southern Command
- SPACECOM
- United States Space Command
- split-based operations
- dividing logistics management functions
so that only those functions absolutely necessary are deployed, allowing some
management functions to be accomplished from CONUS or another theater
- SPO
- security, plans, and operations
- SPOD
- seaports of debarkation
- sqdns
- squadrons
- SRA
- separated reporting activities
- STRATCOM
- United States Strategic Command
- strategic advantage
- the overall relative power relationship of
opponents that enables one nation or group of nations to effectively
control the course of a military/diplomatic situation
- strategic concentration
- the assembly of a designated force
in areas from which intended operations shall begin so that the force is best disposed
to initiate the plan of campaign
- strategic end state
- the set of required diplomatic, economic,
informational, and military conditions integrated by the NCA in national security policy to
achieve a desired strategic outcome or national security objectives in a crisis situation
- sup
- supply
- supported CINC
- the CINC for the theater of focus; see
also supporting CINC
- supporting CINC
- a CINC for an economy-of-force theater or
deferred theater; theater resources may be reallocated/reoriented toward
support for the theater of focus; see also supported CINC
- SVS
- Secure Voice System
- SWC
- strike warfare commander
- SWO
- staff weather officer
- sys auto
- systems automation
- TAACOM
- theater army area command
- TAADCOM
- theater army air defense command
- TAC
- tactical air coordinator
- TAC(A)
- tactical air coordinator (airborne)
- TACAIR
- tactical air
- TACC
- tactical air command center (USMC); tactical air control
center (USN)
- TACOM
- tactical command
- TACON
- tactical control
- TACP
- tactical air control party
- TACS
- theater air control system
- TACSAT
- tactical satellite
- TADC
- tactical air direction center
- TAI
- target area of interest
- TALCE
- theater airlift control element
- TALSM
- theater army logistics system manager
- TAMCA
- theater army movement control agency
- TAML
- theater army medical laboratory
- TAMMC
- theater army materiel management center
- TAOC
- tactical air operations center
- TAPOC
- theater army personnel operations center
- TBM
- tactical ballistic missile
- TCAE
- technical control and analysis element
- TCF
- tactical combat force
- TDA
- table of distribution and allowances
- TECHINT
- technical intelligence
- TENCAP
- tactical exploitation of national capabilities
- TF
- task force
- TFC
- theater finance command
- THAAD
- theater high-altitude air defense
- theater
- the geographical area outside the continental United States
for which a commander of a unified or specified command has been assigned military
responsibility
- theater base
- a sizable portion of the joint rear area
containing logistics facilities, such as ports of debarkation, marshaling
areas, logistics stockage areas, movement control points, logistics
headquarters and units, and the rear portion of the intratheater
communications zone, together with airfields and air bases, transitioning
land forces, theater missile defense forces, the theater rear headquarters,
and strategic reserves
- theater design
- the theater commander's strategic intent to be
derived by a strategic estimate and translated into his theater strategy and campaign
plans, which provide strategic direction and operational focus to the principal subordinates
- theater missile defense
- protection against theater missile attack
through an integrated and coordinated mix of mutually supporting measures, all service
components participate in TMD; TMD for force projection, forward presence, reinforcing
forces, and designated theater strategic assets, such as ports, airfields, or civilian
population centers, must be considered; supporting measures are called TMD pillars
and entail passive missile defense, active missile defense, attack operations, and
battle management and C3I
- theater of operations
- that portion of a theater of war necessary
for military operations to achieve an assigned mission and for the support incident to the
operations
- theater of war
- that area of air, land, sea, and space that is or
may become directly involved in the operations of war
- theater strategic environment
- a composite of the conditions,
circumstances, and influences in the theater that describe the
diplomatic-military situation, affect the employment of military forces, and affect
the decisions of the operational chain of command
- theater strategic maneuver
- the employment of unified and
joint forces from positions of strategic concentration against the strategic
center of gravity to achieve the military end states within the strategic end
state
- THREATCON
- terrorist threat conditions
- threat conditions
- a system that provides procedures for
terrorism analysts to assess the terrorist threat and for commanders to
determine appropriate security measures based on the assessed threat of
terrorist attack
- TOC
- tactical operations center
- TOE
- table of organization and equipment
- total asset visibility
- the immediate access to data pertaining
to the location of aircraft, ships, trucks, and trains moving equipment and supplies from
the provider to the requester
- TOR
- terms of reference
- TPFDD
- time-phased force and deployment data
- TPFDL
- time-phased force and deployment list
- TRADOC
- United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
- trans
- transportation
- Trackwolf
- AN/TSQ-152(V); operational-level, high frequency skywave
communications-intelligence collection and direction-finding system used to support the
operational-level commander
- TRANSCOM
- United States Transportation Command
- Trojan
- AN/TSQ-190(V); intelligence dissemination satellite terminal
that provides access for intelligence processing and dissemination systems
- U-2R
- variant of U-2 aircraft sensing platform
- UAV
- unmanned aerial vehicle
- UCP
- Unified Command Plan
- UN
- United Nations
- UNAAF
- Unified Action Armed Forces
- unified force
- a general term applied to a force composed of joint,
service, special, and supporting forces operating under the command of a unified
commander and in conjunction with or for interagency, United Nations, or multinational forces
- Unified Command Plan
- the document, approved by the President,
which sets forth basic guidance to all unified combatant commanders,
establishes their missions, responsibilities, and force structure;
delineates the general geographical area of responsibility for geographic
combatant commanders; and specifies functional responsibilities for
functional combatant commanders
- unified operations
- a strategic operation encompassing the
wide scope of subordinate actions taking place within theater unified
commands under the overall direction of the commanders of those commands;
a unified operation integrates joint, single-service, special, and supporting
operations in conjunction with interagency, nongovernmental, private
voluntary, multinational, or United Nations operations into a unity of effort
in the theater
- US
- United States
- USA
- United States Army
- USACOM
- United States Atlantic Command
- USACE
- United States Army Corps of Engineers
- USAF
- United States Air Force
- USAID
- United States Agency for International Development
- USAF
- United States Air Force
- USAMC
- United States Army Materiel Command
- USARJ
- United States Army, Japan
- USARPAC
- United States Army, Pacific
- USASOC
- United States Army Special Operations Command
- USC
- United States Code
- USFJ
- United States Forces, Japan
- USFK
- United States Forces, Korea
- USIA
- United States Information Agency
- USMC
- United States Marine Corps
- USN
- United States Navy
- USPW
- United States prisoner of war
- USSOCOM
- United States Special Operations Command
- USTAPERSCOM
- United States Total Army Personnel Command
- USTRANSCOM
- United States Transportation Command
- UW
- unconventional warfare
- UXO
- unexploded ordnance
- WMD
- weapons of mass destruction
- WOC
- wing operations center
- WWMCCS
- Worldwide Military Command and Control System
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