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military operations other than war
(redirected from Mootw)

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Operations that encompass the use of military capabilities across the range of military operations short of war. These military actions can be applied to complement any combination of the other instruments of national power and occur before, during, and after war. Also called MOOTW.


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00 Hardcover Contemporary military, strategic, and security issues, 1932-295X UH723 Watson (strategy, National War College) examines the post 9/11 American military and civilian experience with nation building, employing a broad definition of the term that encompasses stability operations, mootw ("military operations other than war"), peacekeeping, peace operations, peace maintenance, reconstruction operations, institution building, and counterinsurgency operations.
Several experts offered extended comments on potential growth in enforcement measures ordered by the Security Council (a MOOTW mission, about which more is said below).
They apply to both war and MOOTW [military operations other than war].
 
 
 
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