(Pam) 525-3-0, The Army Capstone Concept - Federation of ...

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TRADOC Pam 525-3-0
permissive environment
(DOD) Operational environment in which host nation military and law enforcement agencies
have control as well as the intent and capability to assist operations that a unit intends to conduct
(JP 3-0).
remote area operations
Operations undertaken in insurgent controlled or contested areas to establish islands of popular
support for the host nation government and deny support to the insurgents. They are not
designed to establish permanent host nation government control over the area (FM 3-05.202).
security force assistance
The unified action to generate, employ, and sustain local, host-nation or regional security forces
in support of a legitimate authority. Security force assistance improves the capability and
capacity of host nation or regional security organization’s security forces (FM 3-07).
seize the initiative
All Army operations aim to seize, retain, and exploit the initiative and achieve decisive results.
It emphasizes opportunity created by action through full spectrum operations, whether offensive,
defensive, stability, or civil support (FM 3-0).
shaping operations
Operations at any echelon that create and preserve conditions for the success of decisive
operations are shaping operations (FM 3-0).
stability operations
Stability operations encompass various military missions, tasks, and activities conducted outside
the U.S. in coordination with other instruments of national power to maintain or reestablish a
safe and secure environment, provide essential governmental services, emergency infrastructure
reconstruction, and humanitarian relief (JP 3-0).
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, and develops
and uses national resources to achieve these objectives. See also operational level of war;
tactical level of war (JP 1-02).
strategic preclusion
Adversarial alliances between nations and even nonstate actors that support access denial
preventing U.S. staging privileges. Action will force the U.S. to seek alternative, less desirable,
more dangerous, and time-consuming points of entry.
superiority
That degree of dominance in battle of one force over another which permits the conduct of
operations by the former and its related land, sea, and air forces at a given time and place without
prohibitive interference by the opposing force.