enabling force

enabling force

Early deploying forces that establish critical capabilities to facilitate deployment and initial employment (including sustainment) of a force. See also deployment; employment; force.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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Mr Jabbar argued that technology has begun to encroach into our creative processes turning from an enabling force to a dominant one.
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As an enabling force, many of the capabilities pursued do not directly assist with "closing in and destroying" the enemy.
I think that Air Force operations will be much more fluidly connected across the domains of air, space and cyber, and I think we'll still be the most critical integrating and enabling force on the battlefield.
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