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Parent topics
- Insurgency [r]: A wide range of political and military actions intended to change a government, through means considered illegal by that government. [e]
- Special operations forces [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Military doctrine (United States) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United States Army Special Forces [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United States Special Operations Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
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- Operational Detachment A [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operational Detachment B [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operational Detachment C [r]: Add brief definition or description
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- Ambush [r]: A military action of short duration, in which the side preparing it creates a tactical situation in which the enemy will move into an area where he will suffer the most damage. [e]
- Counterinsurgency [r]: Theory and practice of defeating insurgency without creating even more local resistance or strategic failures [e]
- Counterproliferation [r]: The set of activities that detect and monitor the threat of weapons of special concern against one's own nation and one's allies. [e]
- Counterterrorism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Direct action (military) [r]: Military attacks, usually by special operations forces on land, against specific, well-defined targets, often behind enemy lines. [e]
- Foreign internal defense [r]: The United States military doctrine for counterinsurgency [e]
- Fratricide [r]: The killing of one's brother, but in a military context, the killing of one's own forces ("friendly fire"). [e]
- Guerilla warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Improvised explosive device [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Information operations [r]: The integrated employment of the core capabilities of electronic warfare, computer network operations, psychological operations, military deception, and operations security. [e]
- Psychological operations [r]: Any form of communicatios, directed at a human audience, that influence the opinions, emotions, attitudes, or behavior of any group in order to benefit the interest of the sponsor. Psychological operations can and do take place at every level from grand strategy to tactics, from overt statements by government to tricky loudspeaker broadcasts to get barricaded opponents to leave their protected location. [e]
- Raid [r]: A military attack of limited duration, assuming tactical surprise, which does not attempt to hold the land of the target. It destroys capabilities, obtains intelligence, or may be intended for psychological attack. [e]
- Sniping [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Special reconnaissance [r]: Add brief definition or description
