[Ads-l] kinetic

[Bill Mullins]

> 'Involving offensive military action or active fire.' This specific
> military sense is not in  MW, but I've been hearing it almost every day on
> the news.  It strikes me as recent.

Neither is this specific military sense in the OED.

2003 Marine Corps Times 22 Sep 10/2 [genealogybank]

Still, the 1991 Persian Gulf War was more kinetic, with the majority of the 148 hostile-fire deaths taking place in the four days and four hours of that war's ground campaign.


2004 Armed Forces Journal Oct 52/3 [genealogybank]

"We were just three weeks into the kinetic operations in Afghanistan," he said.


2004 Space Power Journal Winter 100/1

The pub reinforces existing definitions found in AFDD 1, Air Force Basic Doctrine, 17 November 2003, which states that "counterspace involves those kinetic and nonkinetic operations conducted to attain and maintain a desired degree of space superiority by the destruction, degradation, or disruption of enemy space capability".

https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA521373/page/100/mode/1up?q=%22non+kinetic+operations%22




2009 Army Times 19 Jan 8/2  [genealogybank]

Soldiers in RC-East saw an 89 percent increase in kinetic activity in November and December 2008, compared with the same period in 2007, Capt. Christian Patterson, a spokesman for CJTF-101, wrote in an e-mail to Army Times.


2009 Infantry Aug 26/1

Remember to use extreme discretion, caution, and care with both direct and indirect hostile intent fires (HIF); every unit has more firepower than it will ever need in any village, so use disciplined control measures to determine the best course of action if it ever goes kinetic in a populated area.

https://archive.org/details/infantry9842fort/page/26/mode/1up?q=%22goes+kinetic%22



2010 R. A. Clarke Cyber War 197

Once a war goes kinetic, most bets are off.


https://archive.org/details/cyberwarnextthre0000clar/page/197/mode/1up?q=%22goes+kinetic%22




2016 B. Thor Foreign Agent 310

Harvath was counting on him to both mind Baseyev and to be immediately ready to go hot if things went kinetic.

https://archive.org/details/foreignagentthri0000thor/page/1/mode/1up?q=%22went+kinetic%22






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