text: Glossary
  stability operation
  An operation conducted outside the United States in coordination with other instruments of national
  power to establish or maintain a secure environment and provide essential governmental services,
  emergency infrastructure reconstruction, and humanitarian relief. (ADP 3-0)
  strike
  An attack to damage or destroy an objective or a capability. (JP 3-0)
  strike coordination and reconnaissance
  An air mission to detect targets and coordinate or perform attack or reconnaissance on those targets.
  (JP 3-03)
  support area
  The portion of the commander’s area of operations that is designated to facilitate the positioning,
  employment, and protection of base sustainment assets required to sustain, enable, and control
  operations. (ADP 3-0)
  support area operations
  The tactical actions securing lines of communications, bases, and base clusters that enable an echelon’s
  sustainment and command and control. (FM 3-0)
  supporting effort
  A designated subordinate unit with a mission that supports the success of the main effort. (ADP 3-0)
  supporting range
  The distance one unit may be geographically separated from a second unit yet remain within the
  maximum range of the second unit’s weapons systems. (ADP 3-0)
  suppress
  A tactical mission task in which a unit temporarily degrades a force or weapon system from
  accomplishing its mission. (FM 3-90)
  *suppression
  In the context of the computed effects of field artillery fires, renders a target ineffective for a short
  period of time producing suppression of enemy air defenses at least 3-percent casualties or materiel
  damage.
  suppression of enemy air defenses
  Activity that neutralizes, destroys, or temporarily degrades surface-based enemy air defenses by
  destructive and/or disruptive means. (JP 3-01)
  *suppressive fire
  Fires on or about a weapons system to degrade its performance below the level needed to fulfill its
  mission objectives during the conduct of the fires.
  sustainment
  The provision of logistics, financial management, personnel services, and health service support
  necessary to maintain operations until successful mission completion. (ADP 4-0)
  synchronization
  The arrangement of military actions in time, space, and purpose to produce maximum relative combat
  power at a decisive place and time. (JP 2-0)
  tactical combat force
  A rapidly deployable, air-ground, mobile combat unit with appropriate combat support and combat
  service support assets assigned to, and capable of, defeating Level III threats including combined arms.
  (JP 3-10)