### Question
How is the term qualitative military edge defined?


### Answer
The term **qualitative military edge** is defined in *22 U.S.C. § 2776* as the following:

> the ability to counter and defeat any credible conventional military threat from any individual state or possible coalition of states or from non-state actors, while sustaining minimal damages and casualties, through the use of superior military means, possessed in sufficient quantity, including weapons, command, control, communication, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities that in their technical characteristics are superior in capability to those of such other individual or possible coalition of states or non-state actors

#### Citation:
  - *22 U.S.C. § 2776*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 39-ARMS EXPORT CONTROL > SUBCHAPTER III-MILITARY EXPORT CONTROLS**

