Joint Publication 1-02 DoD Dictionary of Military ... - AcqNotes.com

As Amended Through 15 August 2011
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strategic air transport — The movement of personnel and materiel by air in accordance
with a strategic plan.
strategic communication — Focused United States Government efforts to understand and
engage key audiences to create, strengthen, or preserve conditions favorable for the
advancement of United States Government interests, policies, and objectives through
the use of coordinated programs, plans, themes, messages, and products synchronized
with the actions of all instruments of national power. Also called SC. (JP 5-0)
strategic concept — The course of action accepted as the result of the estimate of the
strategic situation which is a statement of what is to be done in broad terms. (JP 5-0)
strategic debriefing — Debriefing activity conducted to collect information or to verify
previously collected information in response to national or theater level collection
priorities. (JP 2-01.2)
strategic direction — The processes and products by which the President, Secretary of
Defense, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff provide strategic guidance to the
Joint Staff, combatant commands, Services, and combat support agencies. (JP 5-0)
strategic estimate — The broad range of strategic factors that influence the commander’s
understanding of its operational environment and its determination of missions,
objectives, and courses of action. See also estimate; logistic estimate of the situation;
national intelligence estimate. (JP 5-0)
strategic intelligence — Intelligence required for the formation of policy and military plans
at national and international levels. Strategic intelligence and tactical intelligence differ
primarily in level of application, but may also vary in terms of scope and detail. See
also intelligence; operational intelligence; tactical intelligence. (JP 2-01.2)
strategic level of war — The level of war at which a nation, often as a member of a group
of nations, determines national or multinational (alliance or coalition) strategic security
objectives and guidance, then develops and uses national resources to achieve those
objectives. See also operational level of war; tactical level of war. (JP 3-0)
strategic mission — A mission directed against one or more of a selected series of enemy
targets with the purpose of progressive destruction and disintegration of the enemy’s
warmaking capacity and will to make war. Targets include key manufacturing systems,
sources of raw material, critical material, stockpiles, power systems, transportation
systems, communication facilities, and other such target systems. As opposed to
tactical operations, strategic operations are designed to have a long-range rather than
immediate effect on the enemy and its military forces.
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