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The United Nations Organization (UNO), or simply United Nations (UN), is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
The act of replenishing stocks in order to maintain required levels of supply.
Industry:Military
The act of unloading and distributing a portion or all of the content of a cargo-carrying vehicle.
Industry:Military
The application of medical procedures by trained professional and technical personnel, and the management of patients under such procedures, for the purpose of relief of pain and suffering, the saving of life and limb, curing disease, injury, or other disorders.
Industry:Military
The authority granted to a commander to use the operational capabilities of assigned forces to undertake mandated missions and tasks: there are three possible degrees of operational authority: operational command, operational control, tactical control.
Industry:Military
The authority granted to a commander to assign missions or tasks to subordinate commanders to deploy units, reassign forces, and to retain or delegate operational and tactical control; it is the highest level of operational authority which can be given to an appointed commander who is acting outside of his own national chain of command, and is seldom authorized by Member States.
Industry:Military
The authority granted to a commander to direct forces assigned so that the commander may accomplish specific missions or tasks which are usually limited by function, time or location by troop-contributing countries in the Security Council Resolution/mandate, to deploy units and retain or assign tactical control of those units; it is a more restrictive level of authority than operational command: a commander cannot change the mission of those forces or deploy them outside the area of responsibility previously agreed to by the troop-contributing country without the prior consent of this country; further he cannot separate contingents by assigning tasks to components of the units concerned.
Industry:Military
The basic administrative and tactical unit in most arms and services (in the US), which is subordinate to a battalion and consists of several platoons (normally 3 or 4 rifle platoons and a heavy weapons platoon)
Industry:Military
The basic tactical unit in the air force, consisting of four or more aircraft in two or more elements.
Industry:Military
The breach of a cease-fire agreement that involves the firing of weapons by either party.
Industry:Military
The capacity to move troops, equipment, and supplies rapidly to a conflict zone by ship; includes sea movement, sea landing and sea support.
Industry:Military
