- Industry: NGO
- Number of terms: 31364
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
The United Nations Organization (UNO), or simply United Nations (UN), is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
Creation proposed by Canada; a formal ad hoc TCC, consisting of all Member States contributing to a particular mission would be formed for each UN peace operation, as mandates are developed and contributors are approached, but prior to action in the Security Council; it would examine the operational plan, command and control arrangements and rules of engagement for that mission.
Industry:Military
Decision based on in-theatre planned medical capabilities, specifying the mean time required for the recovery of patients in field facilities, before they become fit for evacuation or return to duty, and the holding capability of level I and level II (up to 5 days) and level 3 (up to 30 days); treatment for more than 30 days causes repatriation.
Industry:Military
Decision based on in-theatre planned medical capabilities, specifying the mean time required for the recovery of patients in field facilities, before they become fit for evacuation or return to duty, and the holding capability of level I and level II (up to 5 days) and level 3 (up to 30 days); treatment for more than 30 days causes repatriation.
Industry:Military
Defensive position (especially one protected by armored vehicles) organized by a motorized force as it stops for a night or lesser period; a perimeter defense; also found: "laager defense", "to laager"; from Boers war: circling of the wagons in a defensive posture.
Industry:Military
Department of Humanitarian Affairs; a humanitarian crisis of an essentially political nature, i.e. which involves a complete disruption of authority resulting from internal or external conflicts and requires an international response beyond the mandate of a single agency or country programme.
Industry:Military
Described as short-notice contingency forces, RDFs can be formed both unilaterally and with partners, and be deployed in situations where their military organization, training, and equipment, such as transport and communications, enable them to cope with a totally civil situation; their activities range from disaster relief (earthquakes, floods etc), to humanitarian relief (famines), to operations to maintain the peace by separating warring sides, to actual warfare; RDF is the generic term, whereas rapid reaction force is the name given to various specific formations.
Industry:Military
Direction of an object from a point, expressed as a horizontal angle, measured clockwise with reference to grid north.
Industry:Military
Directives issued by DPKO that specify the way how units in PKO's have to act with hostile parties and the population.
Industry:Military
Dispatched to the problem area (prior to submission of a mission plan and financial implications) to report of the political, diplomatic, military and administrative support situation; the logistics, finance and administrative officers on the team assess the topography, infrastructure and availability of local and regional equipment, supplies and services to support a peace-keeping mission.
Industry:Military
DMA's modeling of the Earth from a geometric, geodetic and gravitational standpoint; it allows referencing of local geodetic systems to a single geocentric system; also serves as the reference system for GPS equipment.
Industry:Military
