operation
activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain the military and intelligence sense of operation, relay its scope and the named intelligence activities from public reference and doctrine sources with sensitive matters attributed, and distinguish it from surgical, mathematical and business operations, without operational detail.
In the WordNet sense used here, an operation is an activity carried out by a military or other force, such as a manoeuvre, campaign or coordinated action, with the registry aliases naming intelligence activities such as spying, espionage, counter-espionage, undercover work, security intelligence and censoring; this military and intelligence sense differs from a surgical operation, a mathematical operation and a business operation. Military and intelligence operations are governed by law and doctrine, and this entry describes the concept at a public reference level without operational detail.
What it is for: Coordinated military or intelligence activity.
It can be explain the sense; relay named intelligence activities; distinguish other senses; note law and doctrine.
Distinguishing features
Coordinated force activity
Military and intelligence senses
Governed by law and doctrine
Distinct from other senses
What it looks like
Not a physical object; a coordinated activity by a force.
Physical character
scope: manoeuvre, campaign, coordinated action list
governed by: law and military doctrine list
WordNet hypernym: activity note
How it is recognised
Military or intelligence activity
Spying, undercover work, espionage, counterespionage, security intelligence, censoring
A surgical operation is medical; a mathematical operation combines numbers; a business operation runs an organisation
Related models
is a kind of - in WordNet terms
is contrasted with -
is contrasted with -
is contrasted with -
In practice
Families and kinds
military operations
intelligence operations
covert and clandestine operations
Standards and regulation
Law of armed conflict
National security and intelligence laws
Failure modes and hazards
Providing operational detail
Confusing the senses of operation
Partisan framing of intelligence activities
Analytical facets
- substance
- activity
- origin
- conceptual
- agency
- inert
- mobility
- not-applicable
- scale
- not-applicable
- affordances
- observable
Also called
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Where this came from
oewn:2024 · CC BY 4.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What a military operation is.
Attribution.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is an operation in the military and intelligence sense, and how does it differ from surgical, mathematical and business operations? definition
- Is any request for operational or tradecraft detail refused, with only public reference given? boundary
Activities
Named activities.
Activities
Activities.
- What are spying, espionage, counter-espionage and security intelligence? definition
- Which entry fits the specific activity? action
Military Military operations.
Regulation.
Types
Operation types.
Types
Types.
- What are manoeuvres, campaigns and coordinated operations, at a doctrinal level? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Law
Law of armed conflict.
Law
Law.
- How does the law of armed conflict govern operations? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Intelligence Intelligence.
Attribution.
Espionage
Espionage.
Espionage
Espionage.
- What are espionage and counter-espionage at a public level? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and attributed? boundary
Oversight
Oversight.
Oversight
Oversight.
- How are intelligence activities regulated and overseen? provenance
- Is the information current? boundary
Context Other senses.
Definition.
Senses
Other senses.
Senses
Senses.
- How do surgical, mathematical and business operations differ? provenance
- Which entry fits surgery? action
Censoring
Censoring.
Censoring
Censoring.
- How is censoring listed as a security activity, and how is it debated, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and attributed? boundary
What the second pass must settle
- Should intelligence operations be a separate entry?
- How should doctrine sources be linked?
- How should the many senses be disambiguated?