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Glossary GL-13 maritime interception operations. Efforts to monitor, query, and board merchant vessels in international waters to enforce sanctions against other nations such as those in support of United Nations Security Council Resolutions and/or prevent the transport of restricted goods. Also called MIO. (JP 1-02. SOURCE: JP 3-0) measure of effectiveness. A criterion used to assess changes in system behavior, capability, or operational environment that is tied to measuring the attainment of an end state, achievement of an objective, or creation of an effect. Also called MOE. (JP 1-02. SOURCE: JP 3-0) measure of performance. A criterion used to assess friendly actions that is tied to measuring task accomplishment. Also called MOP. (JP 1-02. SOURCE: JP 3-0) military capability. None. (Approved for removal from JP 1-02.) military education. None. (Approved for removal from JP 1-02.) military engagement. Routine contact and interaction between individuals or elements of the Armed Forces of the United States and those of another nation’s armed forces, or foreign and domestic civilian authorities or agencies to build trust and confidence, share information, coordinate mutual activities, and maintain influence. (JP 1-02. SOURCE: JP 3-0) military intervention. The deliberate act of a nation or a group of nations to introduce its military forces into the course of an existing controversy. (Approved for incorporation into JP 1-02 with JP 3-0 as the source JP.) military occupation. A condition in which territory is under the effective control of a foreign armed force. (Approved for incorporation into JP 1-02 with JP 3-0 as the source JP.) mission. 1. The task, together with the purpose, that clearly indicates the action to be taken and the reason therefore. (JP 3-0) 2. In common usage, especially when applied to lower military units, a duty assigned to an individual or unit; a task. (JP 3-0) 3. The dispatching of one or more aircraft to accomplish one particular task. (JP 3-30) (Approved for incorporation into JP 1-02.) modernization. None. (Approved for removal from JP 1-02.) nation assistance. Assistance rendered to a nation by foreign forces within that nation’s territory based on agreements mutually concluded between nations. (Approved for incorporation into JP 1-02.) near real time. None. (Approved for removal from JP 1-02.) neutral. In combat and combat support operations, an identity applied to a track whose characteristics, behavior, origin, or nationality indicate that it is neither supporting