text: Glossary
  the establishment and maintenance of protective measures that ensure a state of inviolability
  from hostile acts or influences (JP 1-02).
  security force assistance
  The unified action to generate, employ, and sustain local, Host Nation, or regional security
  forces in support of a legitimate authority (FM 3-07).
  security operations
  Those operations undertaken by a commander to provide early and accurate warning
  of enemy operations, to provide the force being protected with time and maneuver space
  within which to react to the enemy, and to develop the situation to allow the commander
  to effectively use the protected force.
  security sector reform
  The set of policies, plans, programs, and activities that a government undertakes to improve
  the way it provides safety, security, and justice (FM 3-07).
  shaping operation
  An operation at any echelon that creates and preserves conditions for the success of the
  decisive operation (FM 3-0).
  situational awareness
  Knowledge of the immediate present environment, including knowledge of the factors
  of METT-TC (FMI 5-0.1).
  situational understanding
  (Army) The product of applying analysis and judgment to the common operational picture
  to determine the relationship among the factors of METT-TC (FM 3-0).
  special operations
  Operations conducted in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments to achieve
  military, political, economic, or informational objectives employing military capabilities
  for which there is no broad conventional force requirement. These operations often require
  covert, clandestine, or low visibility capabilities. Special operations are applicable across the
  rnage of military operations. They can be conducted independently or in conjunction with
  operations of conventional forces or other government agencies and may include operations
  through, with, or by indigenous or surrogate forces. Special operations differ from
  conventional operations in degree of physical and political risk, operational techniques, mode
  of employment, independence from friendly support, and dependence on detailed operational
  intelligence and indigenous assets (JP 1-02).
  stability operations
  (Joint) An overarching term encompassing various military missions, tasks, and activities
  conducted outside the United States in coordination with other instruments of national power
  to maintain or reestablish a safe and secure environment, provide essential governmental
  services, emergency infrastructure reconstruction, and humanitarian relief (JP 3-0).
  strike
  (Joint) An attack to damage or destroy an objective or capability (JP 1-02).
  support
  (Joint) The action of a force that aids, protects, complements, or sustains another force
  in accordance with a directive requiring such action.
  2. A unit that helps another unit in battle. 3. An element of a command that assists, protects,
  or supplies other forces in combat (JP 1, Army) In the context of stability mechanisms,
  to establish, reinforce, or set the conditions necessary for the other instruments of national
  power to function effectively (FM 3-0).