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integrated air and missile defense
The integration of capabilities and overlapping operations to defend the homeland and United States national interests, protect the joint force, and enable freedom of action by negating an adversarys ability to create adverse effects from their air and missile capabilities.
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Cargo such as artillery ammunition, bombs, depth charges, demolition material, rockets, and missiles.
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In air defense, an attack with guns or air-to-air missiles by an interceptor aircraft, or the launch of an air defense missile by air defense artillery and the missile's subsequent travel to intercept.
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The ability to project the military instrument of national power from the United States or another theater, in response to requirements for military operations.
View Other Definitionsunauthorized commitment
An agreement that is not binding solely because the United States Government representative who made it lacked the authority to enter into that agreement on behalf of the United States Government.
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