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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maintenance

Military; Peace keeping

1. All action taken to retain materiel in or to restore it to a specified condition. It includes: inspection, testing, servicing, classification as to serviceability, repair, rebuilding, and ...

course of action (COA)

Military; Peace keeping

1. any sequence of activity that an individual member or a military unit may follow; 2. in wargaming, the possible COAs available to each warring party are explored along with their respective ...

table of organization and equipment (TOE)

1. in national armed forces, the TOE details the authorized levels of personnel and major equipment in formations and their subunits (nominal or "paper" strengths) and defines the order of battle; 2. ...

evacuation of equipment

Military; Peace keeping

1. in the recovery system, evacuation is the movement of equipment casualties (in or out of theatre) within a logistics system; it is distinct from recovery. 2. The process of moving any person who ...

down time

Military; Peace keeping

1. interval between the receipt of a request for supplies at a depot and their delivery to the troops (syn. of "lead time"); 2. the time during which an equipment is not available because of ...

plot

Military; Peace keeping

1. map, chart or graph representing data of any sort; 2. representation on a diagram or chart of the position or course of a target in terms of angles and distances from positions; location of a ...

air tasking order (ATO)

Military; Peace keeping

1. military operations: daily list of missions which includes take-off and landing times, air refueling tracks, the quantity of fuel to be transferred, altitudes to be flown as well as assigned ...