text: Glossary
  *military objective
  Certain persons and objects during hostilities which, by their nature, location, purpose, or use, makes
  an effective contribution to military action and whose total or partial destruction, capture, or
  neutralization, in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage.
  military occupation
  A condition in which territory is under the effective control of a foreign armed force. See also occupied
  territory. (JP 3-0)
  *military passport
  A document issued by order of a commander of belligerent forces that authorizes a person or persons
  named therein and residing or sojourning within territory occupied by such forces to travel unmolested
  within the territory, with or without permission to pass, or to pass and return, by designated routes,
  through the lines, subject to conditions or limitations imposed by the commander.
  National Detainee Reporting Center
  The national-level center that accounts for all persons who pass through the care, custody, and control
  of the Department of Defense and that obtains and stores information concerning detainees and their
  confiscated person property. Also called NDRC. (JP 3-63)
  nongovernmental organization
  A private, self-governing, not-for-profit organization dedicated to alleviating human suffering; and/or
  promoting education, health care, economic development, environmental protection, human rights, and
  conflict resolution; and/or encouraging the establishment of democratic institutions and civil society.
  Also called NGO. (JP 3-08)
  *non-international armed conflict
  An armed conflict not between States, such as a conflict between a State and a non-State armed group
  or a conflict between two non-State armed groups.
  objective
  1.The clearly defined, decisive, and attainable goal toward which an operation is directed. 2. The
  specific goal of the action taken which is essential to the commander’s plan. See also target. (JP 5-0)
  occupied territory
  Territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of a hostile army. The
  occupation extends only to the territory where such authority has been established and can be
  exercised. (HR art. 42)
  *opinio juris
  A statement of customary international law resulting from a general and consistent practice of States
  followed from a sense of legal obligation.
  *parlementaire
  Agents or envoys employed by commanders in the field to go in person within the enemy lines for the
  purpose of communicating or negotiating openly and directly with the enemy commander.
  pillage
  Intentionally and in the absence of military necessity appropriating or seizing property for private or
  personal use, without the consent of a person with authority to permit such appropriation or seizure.
  (10 U.S.C. § 950t(5)). Also called looting and plunder.
  prisoner of war
  A detained person (as defined in Articles 4 and 5 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment
  of Prisoners of War of August 12, 1949) who, while engaged in combat under orders of his or her
  government, is captured by the armed forces of the enemy. Also called POW. (JP 3-50)