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mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Nuclear warfare | Worry remains, however, in many circles that a relative decrease in the security of nuclear weapons has emerged in recent years, and that terrorists or others may attempt to exert control over (or use) nuclear weapons, militarily applicable technology, or nuclear materials and fuel.
Another possible nuclear terrorism t... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Nuclear warfare | Scientists in the United States from the Manhattan Project had warned that, in time, the Soviet Union would certainly develop nuclear capabilities of its own. Nevertheless, the effect upon military thinking and planning in the United States was dramatic, primarily because American military strategists had not anticipat... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Nuclear warfare | A few backyard fallout shelters were built by private individuals.
Henry Kissinger's view on tactical nuclear war in his controversial 1957 book Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy was that any nuclear weapon exploded in air burst mode that was below 500 kilotons in yield and thus averting serious fallout, may be more d... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Nuclear warfare | It was hailed by many military theorists as a weapon that would make nuclear war less likely. SLBMs—which can move with "stealth" (greatly lessened detectability) virtually anywhere in the world—give a nation a "second strike" capability (i.e., after absorbing a "first strike"). Before the advent of the SLBM, thinkers ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Nuclear warfare | Pakistan's nuclear policy was significantly affected by the 1965 war with India. The 1971 war and India's nuclear program played a role in Pakistan's decision to go nuclear. India and Pakistan both decided not to participate in the NPT. Pakistan's nuclear policy became fixated on India because India refused to join the... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Nuclear warfare | CRP-2B, for instance, infamously predicted that 80% of Americans would survive a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union, a figure that neglected nuclear war's impacts on healthcare infrastructure, the food supply, and the ecosystem and assumed that all major cities could be successfully evacuated within 3–5 days. A num... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Oblique order | Detail: In the oblique order attack, the commander of the army would intentionally weaken one portion of the line to concentrate their troops elsewhere. They would then create an angled or oblique formation, refuse the weakened flank and attack the strongest flank of the enemy with a concentration of force. Once the ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Offensive (military) | Theatre offensive: A theatre offensive can be a war and a dominant feature of a national security policy, or one of several components of war if a country is involved in several theatres such as the United Kingdom in 1941. In general theatre, offensives require over 250,000 troops to be committed to combat operations, ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Open terrain | See also: Open Country
== References == |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Operational level of war | Background: During the 18th and early 19th centuries, the synonymous terms grand tactics (or, less frequently, maneuver tactics) was often used to describe the manoeuvres of troops not tactically engaged, while in the late 19th century to the First World War and throughout the Second World War, the term minor strategy ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Operational manoeuvre group | Notes:
References: Simpkin, Richard E. Race to the Swift: Thoughts on Twenty-First Century Warfare. Brassey's, 2000. |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Operations research | Overview: Operational research (OR) encompasses the development and the use of a wide range of problem-solving techniques and methods applied in the pursuit of improved decision-making and efficiency, such as simulation, mathematical optimization, queueing theory and other stochastic-process models, Markov decision pro... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Operations research | This recommendation was not adopted because the fact that the aircraft were able to return with these areas damaged indicated the areas were not vital, and adding armor to non-vital areas where damage is acceptable reduces aircraft performance. Their suggestion to remove some of the crew so that an aircraft loss would ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Operations research | Management science: In 1967, Stafford Beer characterized the field of management science as "the business use of operations research". Like operational research itself, management science (MS) is an interdisciplinary branch of applied mathematics devoted to optimal decision planning, with strong links with economics, b... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Operations research | History: Saul I. Gass, Arjang A. Assad, An Annotated Timeline of Operations Research: An Informal History. New York, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005.
Saul I. Gass (Editor), Arjang A. Assad (Editor), Profiles in Operations Research: Pioneers and Innovators. Springer, 2011
Maurice W. Kirby (Operational Research Society... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Outline of war | Types of war:
Types of warfare: Asymmetric warfare
Expeditionary warfare
Expeditionary maneuver warfare
Warfare by objective: Defensive warfare
Offensive warfare
Warfare by strategic doctrine:
Warfare by terrain:
Warfare by equipment or weapon type:
Warfare by era:
Warfare by stages:
Other: Champion warfa... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Outpost (military) | Recent military use: Military outposts, most recently referred to as combat outposts (COPs), served as a cornerstone of counterinsurgency doctrine in Iraq and Afghanistan. These permanent or semi-permanent structures, often located in or near populated areas, enabled military forces to secure key lines of communication... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Overmatch | Definition: According to the US Army, the definition of overmatch is "the concept where my (insert lethality system here) can willfully and without prejudice or luck defeat your (insert your protective system here)."
According to Raytheon, overmatch is a verb which means "to defeat threats at every level – strategic, t... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Overwatch (military tactic) | See also: List of established military terms
Combined arms
Bounding overwatch
== References == |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Pakfront | German tactic: During the large Soviet armoured attacks on the Eastern front in late 1941–1942, the Germans quickly realised that their anti-tank guns, operating individually or in small groups, and with no central commander, were quickly overwhelmed.
The pakfront was developed to counter this. A group of up to ten gu... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Parthian shot | History: In addition to the Parthians and their successors, the Sasanians, this tactic was used by most nomads of the Eurasian Steppe, including the Scythians, Xiongnu, Huns, Turks, Magyars, Koreans, Mongols, as well as the Urartians and the Comanche.
The Parthians used the tactic to great effect in their victory over ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Patrolling | Patrol types: A combat patrol is a group with sufficient size (usually platoon or company) and resources to raid or ambush a specific enemy. It primarily differs from an attack in that the aim is not to hold ground.
A clearing patrol is a brief patrol around a newly occupied defensive position in order to ensure that ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Peace through strength | History: The phrase and the concept date to ancient times. Roman Emperor Hadrian (AD 76–138) is said to have sought "peace through strength or, failing that, peace through threat." Hadrian's Wall was a symbol of the policy.
United States: The first US president, George Washington, enunciated a policy of peace through ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Peacebuilding | Defining peacebuilding: The definition of peacebuilding varies depending on the actor, with some definitions specifying what activities fall within the scope of peacebuilding or restricting peacebuilding to post-conflict interventions. Even if peacebuilding has remained a largely amorphous concept without clear guideli... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Peacebuilding | It will read:Justpeace \ jest pés \ n, vi, (justpeace-building) 1: an adaptive process-structure of human relationships characterized by high justice and low violence 2: an infrastructure of organization or governance that responds to human conflict through nonviolent means as first and last resorts 3: a view of system... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Peacebuilding | In response to Minister Taro Aso's statement in his speech in 2007, the Ministry is conducting the project (平和構築人材育成事業) to train civilian specialists from Japan and other countries who can work in the field of peacebuilding.
Switzerland: Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA): following the bill passed by the Sw... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Peacebuilding | It calls for the adoption of a gender perspective to consider the special needs of women and girls during conflict, repatriation and resettlement, rehabilitation, reintegration, and post-conflict reconstruction.
In 2010, at the request of the Security Council, the Secretary-General issued an updated report on women's p... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Peacebuilding | Barnett also comments that the promotion of liberalization and democratization may undermine the peacebuilding process if security and stable institutions are not pursued concurrently. Richmond has shown how 'liberal peacebuilding' represents a political encounter that may produce a post-liberal form of peace. Local an... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Peaceful penetration | Description:
Development: In mid-1918, with the ending of the German spring offensive, the Australian troops started to conduct offensive patrols into no man's land. As the front lines after the Spring Offensive lacked fortifications and were non-continuous, it was discovered that the patrols could infiltrate the Ger... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Peacekeeping | Definitions and types of peacekeeping operations:
United Nations peacekeeping missions:
Chapter VI and Chapter VII mission types: There is a range of various types of operations encompassed in peacekeeping. In Page Fortna's book Does Peacekeeping Work?, for instance, she distinguishes four different types of peacek... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Peacekeeping | With the passage of resolution 73 (1949) by the Security Council in August 1949, UNTSO was given the task of fulfilling four Armistice Agreements between the state of Israel and the Arab states which had participated in the war. Thus, UNTSO's operations were spread through five states in the region—Israel, Egypt, Jorda... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Peacekeeping | Being a contributor to peacekeeping missions also provides some international prestige for developing countries, and can bolster countries' claims to be a great power as in the case of Brazil and India. Lastly, providing peacekeepers can have financial benefits for poorer countries. The monthly rate of reimbursement pe... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Peacekeeping | Effectiveness of peacekeeping missions: Reviews of the academic literature show considerable evidence that peacekeeping increases peace. According to Fortna, there is strong evidence that the presence of peacekeepers significantly reduces the risk of renewed warfare; more peacekeeping troops contribute to fewer battlef... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Peacekeeping | In addition, hearing held by the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002 found that members of SFOR were frequenting Bosnian brothels and engaging in sex with trafficked women and underage girls.
Reporters witnessed a rapid increase in prostitution in Cambodia, Mozambique, Bosnia, and Kosovo after UN and, in the case of ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Peacekeeping | There has been little study on the interaction of cultures that exist within a peacekeeping force and the population within which they operate. However, in 1976 Galtun and Hveem studied Norwegian personnel who participated in UNEF-1 (in Gaza) and ONUC (Congo). They posited that knowledge of the culture and an understan... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Peacekeeping | There was a planned deployment of UN peacekeepers meant to ease these concerns and help with the transition to peace, but things began to unravel. International contributors began to shy away from further peacekeeping initiatives; such as an expensive and open-ended mission in a strategically unimportant country. As a ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Peacekeeping | Unintended consequences of peacekeeping operations. United Nations University, 2007.
Autesserre, Séverine. 2014. Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107632042
Barnett, Michael. 2002. Eyewitness to a Genocide: the United Nations and... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Peel (tactic) | Types of peel: A peel begins with an infantry element deciding to disengage from contact with an opposing force. The soldiers begin by using suppressing fire to delay the enemy's attack and advance. Upon issuance of the verbal command to initiate the peel, the infantryman closest to the enemy, in the opposite directio... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Penal military unit | History: One of the earliest examples of penal military units was recorded in the Chinese annals Records of the Grand Historian and Book of Han. During the Han–Dayuan War, unhappy with the failure of General Li Guangli in an earlier expedition in 104 BC, Emperor Wu of Han promised amnesty and rewards to criminals, pris... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Penal military unit | In the modern day, the practice of fielding penal military units has largely stopped, with most militaries discouraging or outright prohibiting the acceptance of convicts, though some militaries accept ex-convicts provided they fulfill certain requirements, such as having a proper waiver. For example, a U.S. military r... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Perfidy | Geneva Conventions: Perfidy is specifically prohibited under the 1977 Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, which states:
Article 37. – Prohibition of perfidy
1. It is prohibited to kill, injure or capture an adversary by resort to perfidy. Acts inviting the confidence of an adversary to ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Perpetual war | Causes: Poor military planning is one of the major reasons that a forever war can occur. If the territory gained in a war is not occupied or controlled properly, this can allow a deadly insurgency to occur, potentially stretching out a conflict that never ends. Similarly, warfare that is fought irregularly, such as reb... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Perpetual war | On September 16, 2001, in a speech, President Bush referred to the war on terror as a crusade. He said:
No one could have conceivably imagined suicide bombers burrowing into our society and then emerging all in the same day to fly their aircraft - fly U.S. aircraft into buildings full of innocent people - and show no... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Philosophy of war | Works about the philosophy of war: Perhaps the greatest and most influential work in the philosophy of war is Carl von Clausewitz's On War, published in 1832. It combines observations on strategy with questions about human nature and the purpose of war. Clausewitz especially examines the teleology of war: whether war i... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Philosophy of war | Ethical categories: Another possible system for categorizing different schools of thought on war can be found in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (see external links, below), based on ethics. The SEP describes three major divisions in the ethics of war: the realist, the pacifist, and the just war Theory. In a nu... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Pike and shot | Origin: By the 16th century, late-medieval troop types that had proven most successful in the Hundred Years' War, Burgundian Wars and the late phase of the Reconquista, dominated European warfare, especially the heavily armoured gendarme (a professional version of the medieval knight), the Swiss, the Spanish Tercio and... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Pike and shot | The Spanish average throughout the 16th century was 2 pikes for every 1 firearm.
In the 1570s the standard infantry company in Dutch service (whether they be Dutch or foreign hires such as Germans and English) had about 150 men, including 4 officers (a captain, lieutenant, quartermaster, and barber-surgeon), 5 NCOs (tw... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Pike and shot | Normal attrition of combat units (including sickness and desertion) and the sheer lack of men usually led to the tercios being far smaller in practice than the numbers above suggest but the roughly 1:1 ratio of pikemen to shooters was generally maintained. The tercios for all armies were usually of 1,000 to 2,000 men, ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Pike and shot | He started by re-arranging the formations to be thinner, typically only four to six ranks deep, spreading them out horizontally into rectangles instead of squares. This further maximized the number of musketeers near the front of the formation. Additionally he introduced the practice of volley fire, where all of the gu... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Pike and shot | Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2005.
Baumgartner, Frederic J. France in the Sixteenth Century. New York, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.
Oman, Charles. A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century. London: Methuen & Co., 1937.
Jorgensen, Christer (et al.). Fighting Techniques of the Early Modern Wor... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Pincer movement | Description: A full pincer movement leads to the attacking army facing the enemy in front, on both flanks, and in the rear. If attacking pincers link up in the enemy's rear, the enemy is encircled. Such battles often end in surrender or destruction of the enemy force, but the encircled force can try to break out. They ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Political warfare | Tools:
Peaceful: Political warfare utilizes all instruments short of war available to a nation to achieve its national objectives. The best tool of political warfare is "effective policy forcefully explained", or more directly, "overt policy forcefully backed". But political warfare is used, as one leading thinker on... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Political warfare | This practice has left a lasting legacy of speech as a mechanism of political power, greater than force in solving disputes and inducing submission. During this same period, Alexander the Great used coinage imprinted with his own image, indirectly forcing conquered nations to accept his legitimacy as national ruler and... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Political warfare | On 4 May 1948, George F. Kennan, the father of the containment policy, wrote the Policy Planning Staff Memorandum titled "The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare". This National Security Council (NSC) memo established a directorate of political warfare operations, under the control of the NSC, known as the Cons... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Power projection | History: Early examples of power projection include Roman dominance of Europe and the wider Mediterranean basin: the ability to project power is tied to the ability to innovate and field such innovations. Roman engineering innovations such as machines (pile driver), concrete, aqueducts and modern roads provided the foo... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Power projection | The US, Russia, China, Britain, and France have renounced the use of nuclear weapons in 2022. However, in the face of threats of nuclear war (say from Russia, as threatened during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine), NATO keeps about 100 B61 nuclear bombs in storage in Europe.: 4:50, 5:55 Certain F-35As were certifi... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Power projection | Uran-6 is a mine flail; Uran-14 is an unmanned firefighting vehicle. Uran-9s are semi-autonomous robotic combat vehicles; specialists can operate them using mobile control stations. Their first attempted service was in Syria. Analysts from BAE Systems (UK) assessed the Uran-9s in Syria as unreliable, with their radio-c... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Power projection | Armed intervention: the movement of military forces into another nation's territory for the purposes of influencing the internal affairs of the target country short of outright conquest.
Conquest: the offensive use of military assets to forcibly occupy territory controlled or claimed by another state. In 2022 Michael... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Prehistoric warfare | Paleolithic: According to cultural anthropologist and ethnographer Raymond C. Kelly, population density among the earliest hunter-gatherer societies of Homo erectus was probably low enough to avoid armed conflict. The development of the throwing-spear and ambush hunting techniques required cooperation, which made pote... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Prehistoric warfare | planned campaigns sanctioned by society as opposed to spontaneous massacres) has led to scholarly debate on the existence of warfare in the narrow sense prior to the development of city states in 20th-century archaeology. In the summary of Heath (2017), accumulating archaeology has made it "increasingly harder" to arg... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Princely rebellion | Terminology: Princely rebellions or revolts may also be described with ambiguous terms such as 'dynastic struggles/conflicts' or 'succession struggles/conflicts/disputes', but they aren't always synonymous. Although these terms are sometimes used interchangeably with wars of succession, princely rebellions are not (nec... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Princely rebellion | No such care was taken when describing noble-led rebellions, however, such as the 1626 failed rebellion by nobleman Mahabat Khan, which is frequently labelled a fitna and other more incendiary and powerfully negative terms of condemnation in order to stress how completely unacceptable such heretical disobedience to the... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Principles of war | Historical principles:
Arthashastra: Arthaśāstra is an ancient Indian Sanskrit treatise on statecraft and military strategy among other things.
Biblical: The Book of Deuteronomy prescribes how the Israelite army was to fight, including dealing with plunder, enslavement of the enemy women and children and forbidding ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Principles of war | Economy of Effort – Economy of effort is the judicious exploitation of manpower, materiel and time in relation to the achievement of objectives.
Flexibility – the ability to change readily to meet new circumstances – comprises agility, responsiveness, resilience, acuity and adaptability.
Cooperation – Cooperation entai... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Principles of war | These principles are:
Restraint – to limit collateral damage and prevent the unnecessary use of force. Restraint requires the careful and disciplined balancing of the need for security, the conduct of military operations, and the national strategic end state.
Perseverance – to ensure the commitment necessary to attain... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Proxy war | History: During classical antiquity and the Middle Ages, many non-state proxies were external parties that were introduced into an internal conflict and aligned themselves with a belligerent to gain influence and to further their own interests in the region. Proxies could be introduced by an external or local power and... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Psychological warfare | History:
Early: Since prehistoric times, warlords and chiefs have recognized the importance of weakening the morale of their opponents. According to Polyaenus, in the Battle of Pelusium (525 BC) between the Persian Empire and ancient Egypt, the Persian forces used cats and other animals as a psychological tactic agai... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Psychological warfare | The Central Powers were slow to use these techniques; however, at the start of the war the Germans succeeded in inducing the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire to declare 'holy war', or Jihad, against the Western infidels. They also attempted to foment rebellion against the British Empire in places as far afield as Ireland, ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Psychological warfare | Propaganda radio stations, such as Lord Haw-Haw in World War II on the "Germany calling" station.
False flag events.
Terrorism
The threat of chemical weapons.
Information warfare.
Most of these techniques were developed during World War II or earlier, and have been used to some degree in every conflict since. Daniel Le... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Psychological warfare | A U.S. Army field manual released in January 2013 states that "Inform and Influence Activities" are critical for describing, directing, and leading military operations. Several Army Division leadership staff are assigned to “planning, integration and synchronization of designated information-related capabilities."
In S... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Radar | History:
First experiments: As early as 1886, German physicist Heinrich Hertz showed that radio waves could be reflected from solid objects. In 1895, Alexander Popov, a physics instructor at the Imperial Russian Navy school in Kronstadt, developed an apparatus using a coherer tube for detecting distant lightning stri... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Radar | Watson-Watt was sent to the U.S. in 1941 to advise on air defense after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Alfred Lee Loomis organized the secret MIT Radiation Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts which developed microwave radar technology in the years 1941–45. Later, in 1943, Page... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Radar | In the common case where the transmitter and the receiver are at the same location, Rt = Rr and the term Rt² Rr² can be replaced by R4, where R is the range.
This yields:
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mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Radar | Another reason for heterodyne processing is that for fixed fractional bandwidth, the instantaneous bandwidth increases linearly in frequency. This allows improved range resolution. The one notable exception to heterodyne (downconversion) radar systems is ultra-wideband radar. Here a single cycle, or transient wave, is ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Radar | Signal processing:
Distance measurement:
Transit time: One way to obtain a distance measurement (ranging) is based on the time-of-flight: transmit a short pulse of radio signal (electromagnetic radiation) and measure the time it takes for the reflection to return. The distance is one-half the round trip time multip... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Radar | Pulse-doppler signal processing increases the maximum detection distance using less radiation close to aircraft pilots, shipboard personnel, infantry, and artillery. Reflections from terrain, water, and weather produce signals much larger than aircraft and missiles, which allows fast moving vehicles to hide using nap-o... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Radar | Phased-array interferometry or aperture synthesis techniques, using an array of separate dishes that are phased into a single effective aperture, are not typical for radar applications, although they are widely used in radio astronomy. Because of the thinned array curse, such multiple aperture arrays, when used in tran... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Radar | Robert Buderi (1996). The invention that changed the world: how a small group of radar pioneers won the Second World War and launched a technological revolution. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-81021-8.
Burch, David F., Radar For Mariners, McGraw Hill, 2005, ISBN 978-0-07-139867-1.
Ian Goult (2011). Secret Location: A... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Radar jamming | Mechanical jamming: Mechanical jamming is caused by devices that reflect or re-reflect radar energy back to the radar to produce false target returns on the operator's scope. Mechanical jamming devices include chaff, corner reflectors, and decoys.
Chaff is made of different length metallic strips, which reflect differ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Radar jamming | The jammer does not know if their jamming is effective before operator starts changing radar transmission settings.
Using EW countermeasures will give away radar capabilities thus on peacetime operations most military radars are used on fixed frequencies, at minimal power levels and with blocked Tx sectors toward possi... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Radio jamming | Distinction between "jamming" and "interference": Originally the terms were used interchangeably but nowadays most radio users use the term "jamming" to describe the deliberate use of radio noise or signals in an attempt to disrupt communications (or prevent listening to broadcasts) whereas the term "interference" is u... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Radio jamming | The Soviets (and most of their Eastern bloc allies) used two types of jamming transmitter. Skywave jamming covered a large area but for the reasons described was of limited effectiveness. Groundwave jamming was more effective but only over a small area and was thus used only in/near major cities throughout the Eastern ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Radio silence | Amateur radio Wilderness Protocol: The Wilderness Protocol recommends that those stations able to do so should monitor the primary (and secondary, if possible) frequency every three hours starting at 7 AM, local time, for 5 minutes starting at the top of every hour, or even continuously.
The Wilderness Protocol is now ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Radiological warfare | Salted nuclear weapons: A salted bomb is a nuclear weapon that is equipped with a large quantity of radiologically inert salting material. The radiological warfare agents are produced through neutron capture by the salting materials of the neutron radiation emitted by the nuclear weapon. This avoids the problems of hav... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Raid (military) | Land:
Tribal societies: Among many tribal societies, raiding was the most common and lethal form of warfare. Taking place at night, the goal was to catch the enemy sleeping to avoid casualties to the raiding party.
Iron Age Ireland: Cattle raiding was a major feature of Irish society in the Iron Age and forms the ce... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Raid (military) | Aerial bombardment: The Royal Air Force first used the term "raid" in the Second World War when referring to an air attack. It included those by one aircraft or many squadrons, against all manner of targets on the ground and the targets defending aircraft. "Raid" was different from "battle", which was used for land, se... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Rapid deployment | Types:
Quick reaction force: A quick reaction force (QRF) is an armed military unit capable of rapidly responding to developing situations, usually to assist allied units in need of assistance. They are equipped to respond to any type of emergency within a short time frame, often only a few minutes, based on unit sta... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Rapid dominance | Doctrine of rapid dominance: Rapid dominance is defined by its authors, Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade, as attempting
to affect the will, perception, and understanding of the adversary to fight or respond to our strategic policy ends through imposing a regime of Shock and Awe.
Further, rapid dominance will, accord... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Rapid dominance | According to some analysts, the military's attack was perhaps too precise. It did not trigger shock and awe in the Iraqis and, in the end, the city was only captured after close combat on the outskirts of Baghdad."
Criticism of execution: According to The Guardian correspondent Brian Whitaker in 2003, "To some in the ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Rapid reaction force | Types:
Quick reaction force: A quick reaction force (QRF) is an armed military unit capable of rapidly responding to developing situations, usually to assist allied units in need of assistance. They are equipped to respond to any type of emergency within a short time frame, often only a few minutes, based on unit sta... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Reconnaissance | Etymology: The word is derived from the Middle French word reconoissance.
Overview: Reconnaissance conducted by ground forces includes special reconnaissance, armored reconnaissance, amphibious reconnaissance and civil reconnaissance.
Aerial reconnaissance is reconnaissance carried out by aircraft (of all types includ... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Reconnaissance | Terrain-oriented route reconnaissance allows the commander to obtain information and capabilities about the adjacent terrain for maneuvering his forces, to include, any obstacles (minefields, barriers, steep ravines, marshy areas, or chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear contamination) that may obstruct vehic... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Reconnaissance aircraft | History: Prior to the 20th century, machines for powered and controllable flight were not available to military forces, but some attempts were made to use lighter than air craft. During the Napoleonic Wars and Franco-Prussian War, balloons were used for aerial reconnaissance by the French.
In World War I, aircraft were... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Reconnaissance by fire | World War II: Reconnaissance by fire was widely adopted by the Allies against the Axis in the European theater of World War II. Previously armored units would typically advance in column behind light armored scouting units. At the same time infantry would be present to provide support in the event of ambush by German p... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Recruit training | Major characteristics: Initial military training is an intensive residential programme commonly lasting several weeks or months, which aims to induct newly recruited military personnel into the social norms and essential tasks of the armed forces. Common features include foot drill, inspections, physical training, weap... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Recruit training | Trainees at RMC hold the rank of Staff Cadet and, if successful in completing the course are commissioned as Lieutenants (pronounced Left-tenant). The overall full-time officer training course at RMC is 18 months long.
Canada: Centralized recruit training in the Canadian Army did not exist until 1940, and until the cr... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Recruit training | They are known as Full-Time National Servicemen (NSFs).
Based on their Physical Employment Status (PES) grade determined by a pre-enlistment medical examination, NSFs may undergo either a standard, enhanced, modified, or obese BMT programme at the Basic Military Training Centre on the offshore island of Pulau Tekong or... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Recruit training | Upon completion of their Officer recruit training, cadets will then progress to their trade specific training of varying length.
The British Army, Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force manage their own Phase One and Phase Two training establishments.
United States: In the United States, recruit training in the... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Recruit training | For east coast recruits, phase two is swim qualification, rifle qualification, and Team Week, a week of maintenance duties for the island as a show of how to perform base support tasks while still keeping military bearing and attention to detail. Phase three brings the San Diego recruits back to the recruit depot where... |
mil_tactics_continued_pretraining.csv | Recruit training | In 2015, BMT was shortened once again to seven and a half weeks. Trainees still stay at Lackland for eight and half weeks, however, the eighth week following graduation they are moved to a more relaxed environment under a program called Airman's Week, which is designed to transition trainees to technical training.
U.S... |
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