Security-related terms
🔹Hot Pursuit – Cross-border chase of criminals or terrorists.
🔹Surgical Strike – A precision military attack aimed at specific targets with minimal collateral damage.
🔹Preemptive Strike – Attacking first when an attack is believed to be imminent.
🔹Preventive War – War initiated to prevent a future threat from materializing.
🔹Decapitation Strike – Targeting leadership of enemy forces.
🔹Shock and Awe – Use of overwhelming power to paralyze the enemy psychologically.
🔹Precision Guided Munitions (PGMs) – Weapons with laser or GPS-guided targeting.
🔹Cold Start Doctrine – Indian military strategy for quick, limited war with Pakistan.
🔹Second Strike Capability – Ability to respond to a nuclear attack with a powerful nuclear retaliation.
🔹Deterrence by Denial – Preventing aggression by making goals unachievable.
🔹No First Use (NFU) – A nuclear policy of not using nuclear weapons unless first attacked.
🔹Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) – Doctrine that full-scale nuclear war would destroy both attacker and defender.
🔹Covert Operation – Secret military or intelligence activity to influence events abroad.
🔹Black Ops (Black Operations) – Secret, unacknowledged missions by intelligence agencies.
🔹Human Intelligence (HUMINT) – Intelligence collected from human sources.
🔹Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) – Intelligence gathered from electronic signals.
🔹No Fly Zone – Area where certain aircraft are not allowed to fly, often enforced militarily.
🔹Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) – Area where military forces are not permitted.
🔹OGWs (Over Ground Workers) - Civilians who secretly assist terrorist groups by providing logistics, shelter, information, funds, or propaganda without directly participating in violence.
🔹Sleeper Cell - A secret unit of terrorists/infiltrators that stays inactive for long periods and is activated when required.
🔹Lone Wolf - An individual who carries out a terrorist act independently, without direct orders from any organization.
🔹White Collar Terrorism - Support to terrorism by professionals — via funding, legal help, propaganda, etc.
🔹Narco-Terrorism - Use of drug trade to fund terrorist activities.
🔹Proxy War - When a state supports terrorist/militant groups to wage war indirectly against another country (e.g., Pakistan using terror groups against India).
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