Friday, September 16, 2005

DOD terms...gives me chills...

DOD DICTIONARY OF MILITARY TERMS

The Department of Defense has updated and substantially expandedits Dictionary of Military Terms.

The Dictionary is useful for students of military policy and also provides some striking adaptations of ordinary language to military needs."

Space," picking an example at random, is defined as "A medium like the land, sea, and air within which military activities shall be conducted to achieve US national security objectives."

See "Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and AssociatedTerms," Joint Publication 1-02, amended 31 August 2005 [746 pages,2 MB PDF file]:

http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/dod/jp1_02.pdf
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