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GLOSSARY
Sea Control

Condition in which one has freedom of action to use the sea for one’s own purposes
in specified areas and for specified periods of time and, where necessary, to deny or
limit its use to the enemy. Sea control includes the airspace above the surface and the
water volume and seabed below.

Sea Denial

Partially or completely denying the adversary the use of the sea with a force that may
be insufficient to ensure the use of the sea by one’s own forces.

Sea Lines of Communication (SLOC)

The sea routes that connect an operating military force with one or more bases of
operations and along which supplies and reinforcements move. The expression is
sometimes used more broadly in a strategic sense to include commercial shipping
routes.

Sealift

The movement of resources between points by carriage in shipping.

Search and Rescue Region (SAR)
Area demarcated internationally to maritime states for the purpose of search and
rescue.

Security
The measures taken by a command to protect itself from espionage, sabotage,
subversion, observation or surprise.

Shaping
Creating the conditions for mission success.

Shore Support

The logistic support mechanism which is established to provide service facilities such as
bases and supply units, private contractors involve in both domestic and international.

Specified Task

In the context of joint operation planning, a task that is specifically assigned to an
organisation by its higher headquarters.

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