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MARITIME DOCTRINE OF SRI LANKA
to prevent access to, or departure from the coast or waters of a hostile state.
Blue water
The high seas and open oceans.
Brown water
Navigable rivers, estuaries and associated ports.
Campaigns
A series of related major operations aimed at achieving strategic and operational
objectives within a given time and space.
Centre of Gravity
The source of power that provides moral or physical strength, freedom of action, or
will to act.
Chartered Shipping
Support capabilities which can be enhanced by chartering or leasing merchant ships
and modifying them to the extent required by an operation.
Choke Point
Where maritime traffic converges to move from one ocean or sea to another include
the straits.
Coercion
The use of own military capabilities as threat against the enemy to hinder their will to
fight and achieve superiority over them.
Combat power
The total means of destructive and/or disruptive force which a military unit/formation
can apply against the opponent at a given time.
Combatant
All members of the armed forces of a party to the conflict are combatants, except
medical and religious personnel.
242 To Nurture a Stable Environment at Sea
