(DoD) The course of action accepted as the result of the estimate of the strategic situation. It is a statement of what is to be done in broad terms sufficiently flexible to permit its use in framing the military, diplomatic, economic, informational, and other measures which stem from it.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
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