(DoD) Efforts to monitor, query, and board merchant vessels in international waters to enforce sanctions against other nations such as those in support of United Nations Security Council Resolutions and/or prevent the transport of restricted goods. Also called MIO.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
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