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

As Amended Through 15 August 2011
counterintelligence operations — Proactive activities designed to identify, exploit,
neutralize, or deter foreign intelligence collection and terrorist activities directed against
the United States. See also counterintelligence; operation. (JP 2-01.2)
counterintelligence production — The process of analyzing all-source information
concerning espionage or other multidiscipline intelligence collection threats, sabotage,
terrorism, and other related threats to US military commanders, the Department of
Defense, and the US Intelligence Community and developing it into a final product that
is disseminated. Counterintelligence production is used in formulating security policy,
plans, and operations. See also counterintelligence. (JP 2-01.2)
counterintelligence support — Conducting counterintelligence activities to protect against
espionage and other foreign intelligence activities, sabotage, international terrorist
activities, or assassinations conducted for or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations,
or persons. See also counterintelligence. (JP 2-01.2)
countermeasures — That form of military science that, by the employment of devices
and/or techniques, has as its objective the impairment of the operational effectiveness
of enemy activity. See also electronic warfare.
countermobility operations — The construction of obstacles and emplacement of
minefields to delay, disrupt, and destroy the enemy by reinforcement of the terrain. See
also minefield; operation; target acquisition. (JP 3-34)
counternarcotics — See counterdrug. (JP 3-07.4)
counterproliferation — Those actions taken to defeat the threat and/or use of weapons of
mass destruction against the United States, our forces, friends, allies, and partners.
Also called CP. See also nonproliferation. (JP 3-40)
counterreconnaissance — All measures taken to prevent hostile observation of a force,
area, or place.
countersign — (*) A secret challenge and its reply.
countersurveillance — All measures, active or passive, taken to counteract hostile
surveillance. See also surveillance. (JP 3-07.2)
counterterrorism — Actions taken directly against terrorist networks and indirectly to
influence and render global and regional environments inhospitable to terrorist
networks. Also called CT. See also antiterrorism; combating terrorism; terrorism.
(JP 3-26)
country team — The senior, in-country, US coordinating and supervising body, headed by
the chief of the US diplomatic mission, and composed of the senior member of each
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