Peace keeping

Peace keeping

Hybrid of politico-military interventions aimed at conflict control usually with the involvement of the United Nations presence in the field by military and civilian personnel.

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civilian communication officer (cco)

Military; Peace keeping

The civilian counterpart to the (military) chief signal officer; responsible for the civilian-pattern communications equipment; manages the mission's communications network (radio, satellite, ...

fire support

Military; Peace keeping

The collective use of mortars, field artillery, close air support and naval gunfire in support of a battle plan or of ground forces.

The commander of the radio organization or the base station, to whom, e.g., a convoy commander reports at the time of departure, when passing certain points along the route and at time of arrival at ...

company net

Military; Peace keeping

The communication network on a company level.

special operations

Military; Peace keeping

The concept formerly covered only military commando-like actions against strategic or tactical targets; nowadays it includes any form of action with a military purpose, yet not necessarily involving ...

datum

Military; Peace keeping

The datum includes both a reference system (a mathematical assumption regarding the shape of the earth, or spheroid), such as the WGS 84, and a projection (usually UTM for low and middle latitudes, ...