text: Glossary
  comprehensive approach
  An approach that integrates the cooperative efforts of the departments and agencies of the
  United States Government, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations,
  multinational partners, and private sector entities to achieve unity of effort toward a shared
  goal (FM 3-07)
  concept of operations
  (Joint) A verbal or graphic statement that clearly and concisely expresses what the joint force
  commander intends to accomplish and how it will be done using available resources. The
  concept is designed to give an overall picture of the operation. (JP 5-0, Army) A statement
  that directs the manner in which subordinate units cooperate to accomplish the mission
  and establishes the sequence of actions the force will use to achieve the end state. It
  is normally expressed in terms of decisive, shaping, and sustaining operations (FM 3-0).
  condition
  (DOD) Those variables of an operational environment or situation in which a unit, system,
  or individual is expected to operate and may affect performance.
  control
  (Joint) 1. Authority that may be less than full command exercised by a commander over part
  of the activities of subordinate or other organizations.
  2. In mapping, charting, and photogrammetry, a collective term for a system of marks
  or objects on the Earth or on a map or a photograph, whose positions or elevations (or both)
  have been or will be determined.
  3. Physical or psychological pressures exerted with the intent to assure that an agent or group
  will respond as directed. 4. An indicator governing the distribution and use of documents,
  information, or material. Such indicators are the subject of intelligence community agreement
  and are specifically defined in appropriate regulations (JP 1-02).
  (Army) 1. In the context of command and control, the regulation of forces and warfighting
  functions to accomplish the mission in accordance with the commander’s intent (FM 3-0).
  2. A tactical mission task that requires the commander to maintain physical influence over a
  specified area to prevent its use by an enemy (FM 3-90).
  3. An action taken to eliminate a hazard or reduce its risk (FM 5-19).
  4. In the context of stability mechanisms, to impose civil order (FM 3-0).
  conventional forces
  Those forces capable of conducting operations using nonnuclear weapons (JP 1-02).
  counterinsurgency
  (Joint) Those military, paramilitary, political, economic, psychological, and civic actions
  taken by a government to defeat insurgency (JP 1-02).
  counterterrorism
  (Joint) operations that include the offensive measures taken to prevent, deter, preempt,
  and respond to terrorism (JP 1-02).
  course of action
  1. Any sequence of activities that an individual or a unit may follow.
  2. A possible plan open to an individual or a commander that would accomplish or is related
  to the accomplishment of a mission.
  3. The scheme adopted to accomplish a job or mission.
  4. A line of conduct in an engagement.
  5. A product of the Joint Operation Planning and Execution System concept development
  phase (JP 1-02).