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  2. Enemy Contact - Wikipedia

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    Firing Point. Enemy Contact (stylized as Tom Clancy Enemy Contact, Tom Clancy: Enemy Contact, or Tom Clancy's Enemy Contact in the United Kingdom [1]) is a techno-thriller novel, written by Mike Maden and released on June 11, 2019. It is his third book in the Jack Ryan Jr. series, which is part of the overall Tom Clancy universe.

  3. List of established military terms - Wikipedia

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    Fabian strategy: avoiding pitched battles in order to wear down the enemy in a war of attrition. Fighting withdrawal: pulling back military forces while maintaining contact with the enemy. File: a single column of soldiers. Fire in the hole; Flanking maneuver: to attack an enemy or an enemy unit from the side, or to maneuver to do so.

  4. Anti-access/area denial - Wikipedia

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    An S-400 surface-to-air missile system can be used as an A2/AD asset. [1] Anti-access/area denial (or A2/AD) is a military strategy to control access to and within an operating environment. [2] In an early definition, anti-access refers to those actions and capabilities, usually long-range, designed to prevent an opposing force from entering an ...

  5. List of military strategies and concepts - Wikipedia

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    Scorched earth – Destroying anything that might be of use to the enemy while retreating, or advancing. Turtling – Continuous reinforcement of the military front until it has reached its full strength, then an attack with the now-superior force. Withdrawal – A retreat of forces while maintaining contact with the enemy.

  6. NATO Joint Military Symbology - Wikipedia

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    The first basic military map symbols began to be used by western armies in the decades following the end of the Napoleonic Wars.During World War I, there was a degree of harmonisation between the British and French systems, including the adoption of the colour red for enemy forces and blue for allies; the British had previously used red for friendly troops because of the traditional red coats ...

  7. 2004 Good Friday ambush - Wikipedia

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    The reaction to enemy contact at the time was to return fire and clear the area. [2] That morning, five vehicles of the 724th armed with crew-served weapons escorted a convoy of 17 fuel trucks and two bobtail tractors operated by U.S. defense contractor KBR.

  8. Information Operations (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Information Operations is a category of direct and indirect support operations for the United States Military. By definition in Joint Publication 3-13, "IO are described as the integrated employment of electronic warfare (EW), computer network operations (CNO), psychological operations (PSYOP), military deception (MILDEC), and operations security (OPSEC), in concert with specified supporting ...

  9. Area defense - Wikipedia

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    If there were no direct contact between the defending forces and the enemy, a 15–25 km deep supply strip was created in front of the location of the forward defense area. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] On it there were positions for corps cover troops, division general and combat guard forces of the first echelon, and various obstacles and mine blast obstacles ...