Security-related terms

🔹Hot Pursuit – Cross-border chase of criminals or terrorists.
🔹Surgical Strike – A precision military attack aimed at specific targets with minimal collateral damage.

🔹Preemptive Strike – Attacking first when an attack is believed to be imminent.

🔹Preventive War – War initiated to prevent a future threat from materializing.

🔹Decapitation Strike – Targeting leadership of enemy forces.

🔹Shock and Awe – Use of overwhelming power to paralyze the enemy psychologically.

🔹Precision Guided Munitions (PGMs) – Weapons with laser or GPS-guided targeting.

🔹Cold Start Doctrine – Indian military strategy for quick, limited war with Pakistan.

🔹Second Strike Capability – Ability to respond to a nuclear attack with a powerful nuclear retaliation.

🔹Deterrence by Denial – Preventing aggression by making goals unachievable.

🔹No First Use (NFU) – A nuclear policy of not using nuclear weapons unless first attacked.

🔹Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) – Doctrine that full-scale nuclear war would destroy both attacker and defender.

🔹Covert Operation – Secret military or intelligence activity to influence events abroad.

🔹Black Ops (Black Operations) – Secret, unacknowledged missions by intelligence agencies.

🔹Human Intelligence (HUMINT) – Intelligence collected from human sources.

🔹Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) – Intelligence gathered from electronic signals.

🔹No Fly Zone – Area where certain aircraft are not allowed to fly, often enforced militarily.

🔹Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) – Area where military forces are not permitted.

🔹OGWs (Over Ground Workers) - Civilians who secretly assist terrorist groups by providing logistics, shelter, information, funds, or propaganda without directly participating in violence.

🔹Sleeper Cell - A secret unit of terrorists/infiltrators that stays inactive for long periods and is activated when required.

🔹Lone Wolf - An individual who carries out a terrorist act independently, without direct orders from any organization.

🔹White Collar Terrorism - Support to terrorism by professionals — via funding, legal help, propaganda, etc.

🔹Narco-Terrorism - Use of drug trade to fund terrorist activities.

🔹Proxy War - When a state supports terrorist/militant groups to wage war indirectly against another country (e.g., Pakistan using terror groups against India).

UPSC SUPER SIMPLIFIED

Security-related terms

🔹Hot Pursuit – Cross-border chase of criminals or terrorists.
🔹Surgical Strike – A precision military attack aimed at specific targets with minimal collateral damage.

🔹Preemptive Strike – Attacking first when an attack is believed to be imminent.

🔹Preventive War – War initiated to prevent a future threat from materializing.

🔹Decapitation Strike – Targeting leadership of enemy forces.

🔹Shock and Awe – Use of overwhelming power to paralyze the enemy psychologically.

🔹Precision Guided Munitions (PGMs) – Weapons with laser or GPS-guided targeting.

🔹Cold Start Doctrine – Indian military strategy for quick, limited war with Pakistan.

🔹Second Strike Capability – Ability to respond to a nuclear attack with a powerful nuclear retaliation.

🔹Deterrence by Denial – Preventing aggression by making goals unachievable.

🔹No First Use (NFU) – A nuclear policy of not using nuclear weapons unless first attacked.

🔹Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) – Doctrine that full-scale nuclear war would destroy both attacker and defender.

🔹Covert Operation – Secret military or intelligence activity to influence events abroad.

🔹Black Ops (Black Operations) – Secret, unacknowledged missions by intelligence agencies.

🔹Human Intelligence (HUMINT) – Intelligence collected from human sources.

🔹Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) – Intelligence gathered from electronic signals.

🔹No Fly Zone – Area where certain aircraft are not allowed to fly, often enforced militarily.

🔹Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) – Area where military forces are not permitted.

🔹OGWs (Over Ground Workers) - Civilians who secretly assist terrorist groups by providing logistics, shelter, information, funds, or propaganda without directly participating in violence.

🔹Sleeper Cell - A secret unit of terrorists/infiltrators that stays inactive for long periods and is activated when required.

🔹Lone Wolf - An individual who carries out a terrorist act independently, without direct orders from any organization.

🔹White Collar Terrorism - Support to terrorism by professionals — via funding, legal help, propaganda, etc.

🔹Narco-Terrorism - Use of drug trade to fund terrorist activities.

🔹Proxy War - When a state supports terrorist/militant groups to wage war indirectly against another country (e.g., Pakistan using terror groups against India).

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