- Industry: NGO
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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.
A numbered contractual document issued by the UN to a government, authorizing it to provide special supplies or services to a peace-keeping operation; the UN agrees either to purchase the goods or services or authorizes the government to supply them subject to reimbursement by the UN; consequently, LOAs can involve both UNOE and COE
Industry:Military
A parachute jump or a supply delivery by parachute from an aircraft in flight; in logistics, an airdrop (for resupplying a unit) is sometimes called "vertical replenishment"
Industry:Military
A part of a unit separated from its main organization for duty elsewhere.
Industry:Military
A passage through which military forces and materiel must transit because of geographic or infrastructure constraints, and where they become vulnerable to interdiction.
Industry:Military
A passage through which military forces and materiel must transit because of geographic or infrastructure constraints, and where they become vulnerable to interdiction.
Industry:Military
A plane rectangular coordinate system usually based on, mathematically adjusted to, a map projection in order that geographic positions (latitudes and longitudes) may be readily transformed into plane coordinates and the computations relating to them may be made by the ordinary method of plane surveying.
Industry:Military
A police officer who assists the SRSG in the preparation of cooperation agreements with the National Police, and in the supervision of civilian police monitors. A civilian police advisor also advises on human rights verification.
Industry:Military
A preliminary notice of an action or order that is to follow. Usually issued as a brief oral or written message, it is designed to give subordinates time to make necessary plans and preparations.
Industry:Military
A prepared area designated and used for take-off and landing of helicopters (including touch down or hover): it may be a circular or rectangular area, in or near a camp, which has been cleared of obstacles and marked for helicopter landings; the (rudimentary) equipment usually includes a wind cone, a beacon light and colored flares; also found: "pick-up helipad", "set-down helipad"
Industry:Military
A process in which humanitarian organizations negotiate with one warring party the right to deliver a specified number of aid shipments, along a specified route, to a population in need (usually in exchange for helping other groups less in need at the request of the warring party), instead of demanding unhindered access and delivery of relief aid strictly according to need; this process is sometimes criticized as it tends to confer legitimacy upon warring parties and coincidentally facilitates the incorporation of relief aid into military strategies, reinforcing their capacity to wage war and offering an incentive to starve captive civilian populations to bolster a negotiating position; also found: "integrated UN/NGO negotiated access programs", under which international NGOs gain access to conflict zones.
Industry:Military
