…Protection is a continuing activity; it integrates all protection capabilities to safeguard bases, secure routes, and protect forces. Protection actions considered by the analyst include antiterrorism, operations security, information protection, area security, air and missile defense…

…Draw shapes around the dense areas using a variety of shapes, colors, and line styles to denote different types of clusters, relative confidence in the cluster, or any other criteria deemed important.  Step 5. Review…

… Identify enemy’s use of special munitions.  Locate and/or track enemy close air support.  Identify enemy deception operations.  Determine enemy commander’s end state, objectives, decision points, and centers of gravity…

…They can rapidly improve the military balance of power in the operational area; especially in terms of early warning, intelligence gathering, logistic infrastructure, air and maritime forces, MISO, and protection without precipitating armed response from the…

…Operations to gain air, space, and maritime superiority; defensive use of IO; PR; and protection of airports and seaports, LOCs, and friendly force lodgment also contribute significantly to force protection at the onset of combat operations…

Air Force Doctrine Publication 3-60, Targeting 9 SPECIFIC TARGETING RESTRICTIONS Targeting restrictions under LoW prohibit intentional attacks on civilians, civilian populations, and protected entities such as the wounded, sick, prisoners of war, medical units, religious…

…This complementary use of maneuver and interdiction places the enemy in the operational dilemma of either defending from disadvantageous positions or exposing forces to interdiction strikes during attempted repositioning. (4) Within the joint force operational area…

Chapter III III-38 JP 3-0 (b) The early introduction of preventive medicine personnel or units into theater helps protect US forces from diseases and injuries. It also permits a thorough assessment of the health…

…One way uses active defensive measures that protect the joint force, its information, its bases, necessary infrastructure, and LOCs from an enemy attack. Another way uses passive defensive measures that make friendly forces, systems, and facilities…

…Civilian objects are civilian property and facilities other than those used to support or sustain the adversary’s warfighting capability. Civilian objects that are being used to engage in or support hostilities may lose their protected…

…When conflict occurs, commanders need to ensure US, allied, and/or multinational forces gain and maintain space superiority, which is achieved through global and theater space control, space force enhancement, space support, and space force application…

…POWs may not be targets, be kept in a combat zone, or be used to render an area immune from military operations. When military considerations permit, the letters “PW” or “PG” clearly visible from the air…

…These fallacies appeal to evidence or examples that are irrelevant to the argument at hand. © Appeal to force: (Argumentum ad Baculum, or the “Might-Makes-Right” Fallacy): This argument uses force, the threat of force, or…

Air Force Doctrine Publication 3-60, Targeting 32 Joint Targeting Toolbox (JTT). JTT is the joint targeting tool of record. JTT is a suite of software modules specifically engineered to optimize the joint targeting process throughout…