{"id":4766,"date":"2014-04-10T08:38:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T06:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=4766"},"modified":"2014-04-10T08:38:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T06:38:59","slug":"glossary-of-modern-military-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2014\/04\/glossary-of-modern-military-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Glossary of Modern Military Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Engage the Enemy<\/b><\/em> means “to blow something up.”<\/em>
\n<\/i>Surgical Strike<\/b><\/em> means “to blow up something small.”<\/em>
\n<\/i>Decapitate<\/b><\/em> means “to blow up their leaders.”<\/em>
\n<\/i>Collateral Damage<\/b><\/em> means “to accidentally blow up something of theirs.”<\/em>
\n<\/i>Friendly Fire<\/b><\/em> means “to accidentally blow up something of ours.”<\/em>
\n<\/i>Target of Opportunity<\/b><\/em> means “to blow something up on a whim”<\/em>
\n<\/i>Kinetic Targeting<\/b><\/em> means “to blow up something that’s moving”<\/em>
\n<\/i>Ordnance<\/b><\/em> is “something that that does the blowing up”<\/em>
\n<\/i>An Asset<\/b><\/em> is “something that can be blown up”<\/em>
\n<\/i>Embedded Media<\/b><\/em> means “a report that’s blown out of proportion”<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n

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