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Doctrine

Military doctrine: Add brief definition or description
Grand strategy: Add brief definition or description
Strategy (military: Add brief definition or description
Total Force Concept: A doctrine that allocates most of the active-duty (i.e., Regular) troops of the United States Army to combat arms roles, while assigning combat support and combat service support to the Reserve Components of the United States Army Reserve and Army National Guard (United States) ^[e]
National technical means of verification: Euphemism principally for imagery intelligence satellites and other means of strategic arms control verification, principally because the Soviet Union did not want its public to know that they could not prevent Western observation of the state ^[e]
Operational art: Add brief definition or description
Centers of gravity (military): Add brief definition or description
John Boyd: Add brief definition or description
John Warden III: Add brief definition or description
Corps: Add brief definition or description
Swarming (military): Add brief definition or description+

United States

Joint Chiefs of Staff‎: The staff committee of the most senior members of the U.S. military services, charged with policy advice, doctrinal development, and preparedness rather than operational control of forces ^[e]
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff‎: The senior member of the uniformed services of the United States, statutory senior military adviser to the President and Secretary of Defense; currently Admiral Mike Mullen; policy developer and adviser not in the operational chain of command ^[e]
National Command Authority: The combination of the U.S. President and Secretary of Defense, or their successors, who have the sole authority to authorize the use of nuclear weapons, or issue orders to Unified Combatant Commands ^[e]
National Security Act of 1947: Core of legislation that restructured the U.S. military from its traditional structure of a separate Army and Navy, creating the United States Air Force, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the predecessor to the U.S. Department of Defense ^[e]
National Security Council: Both the senior foreign policy committee of principal officers of the executive branch of the United States of America, chaired by the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and, by extension, the professional staff reporting to the Assistant ^[e]
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs: Add brief definition or description
United States Central Command: Unified Combatant Command responsible for U.S. operations in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, now under the command of General James Mattis ^[e]
United States European Command: U.S. Unified Combatant Command with responsibility for Europe and some nearby areas, such as the Mediterranean Sea; United States Africa Command is a subcommand ^[e]
United States Joint Forces Command: A source of "surge" planners and staff, while helping organize the mission-focused joint task force that will address the specific need of other U.S. Unified Combatant Commands ^[e]
United States Special Operations Command: A U.S. Unified Combatant Command with both functional and operational responsibilities, both to prepare special operations forces for the geographic commands, and to execute strategic special operations, typically under national orders and high security classification ^[e]
United States Secretary of Defense: The civilian official with authority over all personnel of the United States Department of Defense, currently Robert Gates ^[e]
United States Secretary of State: The senior cabinet officer of the United States, responsible for the conduct of diplomacy, currently Hillary Clinton ^[e]
United States Strategic Command: The U.S. unified headquarters for the missions of worldwide nuclear and conventional precision strike; command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in support of strategic operations; global network operations of the Global Information Grid, information operations, ballistic missile defense, and reduction of weapons of mass destruction threats ^[e]
United States Transportation Command: The single point of contact and operations for transportation services, by land, air, and sea, for the U.S. Department of Defense ^[e]
George Kistiakowsky: (1900 – 1982), leader of the chemical explosives team of the Manhattan Project ^[e]

Command, Control and Communications

Command and control: Add brief definition or description
Common operational picture: Add brief definition or description
Force multiplier: Add brief definition or description
Fratricide: The killing of one's brother, but in a military context, the killing of one's own forces ("friendly fire"). ^[e]
Swarming (military): Add brief definition or description
Synchronization: Add brief definition or description

Joint

Global Information Grid: The overall computing and communications architecture and systems interconnecting the U.S. Department of Defense military and civilian organizations, other government agencies, and allied nations; information is at the strategic/theater and operational, not tactical levels ^[e]
Single Integrated Operational Plan: The U.S. plan and doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons in a large campaign, prepared for all services by the United States Strategic Command, based on Joint Chiefs of Staff guidance ^[e]
Air tasking order: Add brief definition or description
Global Command and Control System: Add brief definition or description (GCCS) for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Unified Combatant Command commanders
Joint Operation Planning and Execution System: Add brief definition or description(JOPES).

Army

Navy

Communications

Ground Combat arms

Branches of Service; specialties

Combat Service Support

Tactics

Ground weapons

Organization and organizations

Air warfare doctrine

weapons of mass destruction

Chemical weapon: Add brief definition or description
Single Integrated Operational Plan: The U.S. plan and doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons in a large campaign, prepared for all services by the United States Strategic Command, based on Joint Chiefs of Staff guidance ^[e]
Intercontinental ballistic missile: Add brief definition or description
Submarine-launched ballistic missile: Add brief definition or description
Ballistic missile defense: Add brief definition or description

Amphibious warfare

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Information operations & Military electronics

Ordnance and Missiles

Second World War

Aircraft

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Naval warfare

Naval aviation

Carrier-capable: Add brief definition or description

Wars

First World War

Second World War

Korean War

Vietnam War

Gulf War

Iraq War

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Contents

Doctrine

United States

Command, Control and Communications

Joint

Army

Navy

Communications

Ground Combat arms

Branches of Service; specialties

Combat Service Support

Tactics

Ground weapons

Organization and organizations

Air warfare doctrine

weapons of mass destruction

Amphibious warfare

Equipment and systems=

Information operations & Military electronics

Ordnance and Missiles

Second World War

Aircraft

Combat support

Combat service suppor=

Naval warfare

Naval aviation

Wars

First World War

Second World War

Korean War

Vietnam War

Gulf War

Iraq War

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User:Howard C. Berkowitz/Related Military: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 16:56, 29 March 2024

Doctrine

United States

Command, Control and Communications

Joint

Army

Navy

Communications

Ground Combat arms

Branches of Service; specialties

Combat Service Support

Tactics

Ground weapons

Organization and organizations

Air warfare doctrine

weapons of mass destruction

Amphibious warfare

Equipment and systems=

Information operations & Military electronics

Ordnance and Missiles

Second World War

Aircraft

Combat support

Combat service suppor=

Naval warfare

Naval aviation

Wars

First World War

Second World War

Korean War

Vietnam War

Gulf War

Iraq War

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