(DoD) Concepts and courses of action directed toward securing the objectives of national and multinational policies and strategies through the synchronized and integrated employment of military forces and other instruments of national power. See also National Military Strategy; National Security Strategy; strategy.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
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