Doctrine

Military doctrine: The fundamental principles of a military organization. ^[e]
Grand strategy: The application of all national means of affecting the actions of other nations and non-national actors; specifically includes but is not restricted to military means ^[e]
Strategy (military: Add brief definition or description
Total Force Concept: A doctrine that allocates most of the active-duty (i.e., Regular) troops of the United States Army to combat arms roles, while assigning combat support and combat service support to the Reserve Components of the United States Army Reserve and Army National Guard (United States) ^[e]
National technical means of verification: Euphemism principally for imagery intelligence satellites and other means of strategic arms control verification, principally because the Soviet Union did not want its public to know that they could not prevent Western observation of the state ^[e]
Operational art: A level of military power at which forces in the field, or deployed from the homeland, can determine the place and conditions of battle ^[e]
Centers of gravity (military): A centre of military force or power. ^[e]
John Boyd: United States Air Force colonel who developed both fighter aircraft tactics, and far more general models for command and control; a major theorist of modern warfare ^[e]
John Warden III: A retired United States Air Force colonel, who, as a planner, developed many of the basic ideas for the air campaign in the 1991 Gulf War. In retirement, he writes, speaks, and consults on strategy. ^[e]
Corps: The highest-level military headquarters that has an operational art mission, as opposed to tactical and support/administrative role; normally commanded by a major general or lieutenant general ^[e]
Swarming (military): A method of military attacking using multiple attack forces against an opponent, which act in an autonomous but synchronized manner, with real-time communications for their coordination ^[e]+

United States

Joint Chiefs of Staff‎: The staff committee of the most senior members of the U.S. military services, charged with policy advice, doctrinal development, and preparedness rather than operational control of forces ^[e]
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff‎: The senior member of the uniformed services of the United States, statutory senior military adviser to the President and Secretary of Defense; currently Admiral Mike Mullen; policy developer and adviser not in the operational chain of command ^[e]
National Command Authority: The combination of the U.S. President and Secretary of Defense, or their successors, who have the sole authority to authorize the use of nuclear weapons, or issue orders to Unified Combatant Commands ^[e]
National Security Act of 1947: Core of legislation that restructured the U.S. military from its traditional structure of a separate Army and Navy, creating the United States Air Force, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the predecessor to the U.S. Department of Defense ^[e]
National Security Council: Both the senior foreign policy committee of principal officers of the executive branch of the United States of America, chaired by the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and, by extension, the professional staff reporting to the Assistant ^[e]
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs: Principal White House staff adviser on foreign policy and defense matters to the President of the United States, usually coordinating the major agencies; statutory member of the National Security Council and the chief of its staff; the incumbent is James L. Jones ^[e]
United States Central Command: Unified Combatant Command responsible for U.S. operations in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, now under the command of General James Mattis ^[e]
United States European Command: U.S. Unified Combatant Command with responsibility for Europe and some nearby areas, such as the Mediterranean Sea; United States Africa Command is a subcommand ^[e]
United States Joint Forces Command: A source of "surge" planners and staff, while helping organize the mission-focused joint task force that will address the specific need of other U.S. Unified Combatant Commands ^[e]
United States Special Operations Command: A U.S. Unified Combatant Command with both functional and operational responsibilities, both to prepare special operations forces for the geographic commands, and to execute strategic special operations, typically under national orders and high security classification ^[e]
United States Secretary of Defense: The civilian official with authority over all personnel of the United States Department of Defense, currently Robert Gates ^[e]
United States Secretary of State: The senior cabinet officer of the United States, responsible for the conduct of diplomacy, currently Hillary Clinton ^[e]
United States Strategic Command: The U.S. unified headquarters for the missions of worldwide nuclear and conventional precision strike; command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in support of strategic operations; global network operations of the Global Information Grid, information operations, ballistic missile defense, and reduction of Weapons of Mass Destruction threats ^[e]
United States Transportation Command: The single point of contact and operations for transportation services, by land, air, and sea, for the U.S. Department of Defense ^[e]
George Kistiakowsky: (1900 – 1982), leader of the chemical explosives team of the Manhattan Project ^[e]

Command, Control and Communications

Command and control: The combination of lawful authority over people and resources, coupled with the methods of directing their execution of missions and tasks directed at goals set by that authority ^[e]
Common operational picture: An electronically shared graphic of map of common interest, typically to military units, that can show more or less detail, and specialized information, on simple user command or even touch ^[e]
Force multiplier: Technology, operating doctrine, or combination of techniques that , "...when added to and employed by a combat force, significantly increases the combat potential of that force and thus enhances the probability of successful mission accomplishment." Joint Chiefs of Staff ^[e]
Fratricide: The killing of one's brother, but in a military context, the killing of one's own forces ("friendly fire"). ^[e]
Swarming (military): A method of military attacking using multiple attack forces against an opponent, which act in an autonomous but synchronized manner, with real-time communications for their coordination ^[e]
Synchronization: Add brief definition or description

Joint

Global Information Grid: The overall computing and communications architecture and systems interconnecting the U.S. Department of Defense military and civilian organizations, other government agencies, and allied nations; information is at the strategic/theater and operational, not tactical levels ^[e]
Single Integrated Operational Plan: The U.S. plan and doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons in a large campaign, prepared for all services by the United States Strategic Command, based on Joint Chiefs of Staff guidance ^[e]
Air tasking order: The process and documentation of plans for the coordinated use of air and missile resources, and ground systems, such as electronic warfare and intelligence collection, which may interact with them ^[e]
Global Command and Control System: Add brief definition or description (GCCS) for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Unified Combatant Command commanders
Joint Operation Planning and Execution System: For the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, the information system for joint planning and execution of joint (i.e., multiservice) operations ^[e](JOPES).

Army

Army Battle Command System: The set of information systems and components that support the operational-level command and control of the U.S. Army, abbreviated ABCS ^[e]
Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below: A U.S. Army system of pocket- and laptop-sized, user-friendly networked computers, for command and control from the individual soldier up to the brigade combat team ^[e]
Forward Area Air Defense: A U.S. military command and control system for managing air defense, which includes both artillery/air deconfliction and counter-rocket, artillery and mortar missions, near the main battle line, typically under brigade control ^[e]
Army Airspace Command and Control: A division level air defense artillery and army aviation information management system of the U.S. Army, deemphasized with the main level of control at the brigade level with a minimal air defense requirement ^[e]
Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System: A U.S. Army and Marine artillery fire control system that cooperates with Navy and Air Force fire control systems, as well as British, French, Italian and German artillery systems. ^[e]
Battle Command and Sustainment Support System: A set of application programs that provides the logistics functions of the U.S. Army Battle Command System, which, in turn, is part of the Global Information Grid; also used by the U.S. Marine Corps ^[e]

Navy

AEGIS battle management system: An integrated system of computers, radars, and other systems that provides integrated management of a shipboard suite of strategic strike, anti-surface warfare, ballistic missile defense and anti-air warfare principally using missiles in vertical launch systems; it complements other integrated systems for anti-submarine warfare and naval gunfire support ^[e]
Cooperative Engagement Capability: A distributed computing and communications system principally aboard U.S. Navy warships, more than the AEGIS battle management system is often called. As opposed to the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System it does not share only the processed data from single sensors on single platforms, but shares a mutually computed model fusing all sensors ^[e]
Navy Fire Control System: Add brief definition or description

Communications

Joint Tactical Information Distribution System: The primary communications system used for sharing tactical information internally, and among NATO, Australia, and other U.S. allies ^[e]
Joint Tactical Radio System: Add brief definition or description
SINCGARS: Add brief definition or description
HAVE QUICK II: Add brief definition or description
NIPRNET: Add brief definition or description
JWICS: Add brief definition or description
SIPRNET: Add brief definition or description
Mobile Subscriber Equipment: Add brief definition or description

Ground Combat arms

Branches of Service; specialties

Combat Service Support

Tactics

Ground weapons

Organization and organizations

Echelons above Corps: Add brief definition or description
Corps: The highest-level military headquarters that has an operational art mission, as opposed to tactical and support/administrative role; normally commanded by a major general or lieutenant general ^[e]
Division: Add brief definition or description
Brigade: Add brief definition or description
Battalion: Add brief definition or description
Company (land forces): Add brief definition or description
Restructuring of the United States Army: Add brief definition or description
United States Army Special Forces: Add brief definition or description

Air warfare doctrine

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Nuclear weapon: Add brief definition or description
Radiological weapon: Add brief definition or description
Chemical weapon: Add brief definition or description
Single Integrated Operational Plan: The U.S. plan and doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons in a large campaign, prepared for all services by the United States Strategic Command, based on Joint Chiefs of Staff guidance ^[e]
Intercontinental ballistic missile: Add brief definition or description
Submarine-launched ballistic missile: Add brief definition or description
Ballistic missile defense: Add brief definition or description

Amphibious warfare

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Information operations & Military electronics

AN-: Add brief definition or description
Radar: Add brief definition or description
Bistatic: Add brief definition or description
Multistatic: Add brief definition or description
APG-63: Add brief definition or description
APG-65: Add brief definition or description
APG-68: Add brief definition or description
APG-70: Add brief definition or description
APG-73: Add brief definition or description
APG-79: Add brief definition or description
APG-81: Add brief definition or description
APY-2: Add brief definition or description
APY-7: Add brief definition or description
MPQ-64: Add brief definition or description
SPG-62: Add brief definition or description
SPS-49: Add brief definition or description
SPY-1: Add brief definition or description
SPY-2: Add brief definition or description
TPQ-36: Add brief definition or description
TPQ-37: Add brief definition or description
TPQ-47: Add brief definition or description
TPY-2: Add brief definition or description
Counterbattery: Add brief definition or description
Information operations: Add brief definition or description
Joint Tactical Information Distribution System: The primary communications system used for sharing tactical information internally, and among NATO, Australia, and other U.S. allies ^[e]
Joint Tactical Radio System: Add brief definition or description

Ordnance and Missiles

Second World War

Aircraft

Combat support

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Naval warfare

Aircraft carrier: Add brief definition or description
Battleship: Add brief definition or description
Cruiser: Add brief definition or description
Destroyer: Add brief definition or description
Fast attack craft: Add brief definition or description
Ticonderoga-class: Add brief definition or description
Burke-class: Add brief definition or description
Cooperative Engagement Capability: A distributed computing and communications system principally aboard U.S. Navy warships, more than the AEGIS battle management system is often called. As opposed to the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System it does not share only the processed data from single sensors on single platforms, but shares a mutually computed model fusing all sensors ^[e]
Compartmented control system: Add brief definition or description

Naval aviation

Carrier-capable: Add brief definition or description

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