Military glossary

20 terms

I am in Social Science, and I want to be in the military. So, I did a 20 worlds glossary to start knowing better this field, because it's a big engagement, and I want to be sure before going at the Royal Military College. Military is very large, and they have a lot of specialization so it's hard to know the definition of everything in each side.

Attack assessment: An evaluation of information to determine the potential or actual nature and objectives of an attack for the purpose of providing information for timely decisions.
Barrier: A coordinated series of natural or man-made obstacles designed or employed to channel, direct, restrict, delay, or stop the movement of an opposing force and to impose additional losses in personnel, time, and equipment on the opposing force.
Battle injury: Damage or harm sustained by personnel during or as a result of battle conditions.
Collateral damage: Unintentional or incidental injury or damage to persons or objects that would not be lawful military targets in the circumstances ruling at the time.
Essential task: A specified or implied task that an organization must perform to accomplish the mission that is typically included in the mission statement.
Explosive cargo: Cargo such as artillery ammunition, bombs, depth charges, demolition material, rockets, and missiles.
Force: An aggregation of military personnel, weapon systems, equipment, and necessary support, or combination thereof.
Global force management: A process to align assignment, allocation, and apportionment of forces to combatant commanders in support of the national defense strategy and joint force availability requirements.
Hazard: A condition with the potential to cause injury, illness, or death of personnel; damage to or loss of equipment or property; or mission degradation.
Joint staff: The staff of a commander of a unified or specified command, subordinate unified command, joint task force, or subordinate functional component (when a functional component command will employ forces from more than one Military Department), that includes members from the several Services comprising the force.
Joints fire: Fires delivered during the employment of forces from two or more components in coordinated action to produce desired effects in support of a common objective.
Key position: A civilian position, public or private (designated by the employer and approved by the Secretary concerned), that cannot be vacated during war or national emergency.
Main supply route: The route or routes designated within an operational area upon which the bulk of traffic flows in support of military operations.
Mine warfare: The strategic, operational, and tactical use of mines and mine countermeasures either by emplacing mines to degrade the enemy's capabilities to wage land, air, and maritime warfare or by countering of enemy-emplaced mines to permit friendly maneuver or use of selected land or sea areas.
Resupply: The act of replenishing stocks in order to maintain required levels of supply.
Tank: a heavy armoured fighting vehicle carrying guns and moving on a continuous articulated metal track.
Vehicle cargo: Wheeled or tracked equipment, including weapons, that require certain deck space, head room, and other definite clearance.
Weapons: A thing designed or used for inflicting bodily harm or physical damage.
Weapons free zone: An air defense zone established for the protection of key assets or facilities, other than air bases, where weapon systems may be fired at any target not positively recognized as friendly.
withdrawal operation: A planned retrograde operation in which a force in contact disengages from an enemy force and moves in a direction away from the enemy.