High-value target
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High-value individual (HVI) can be used if the target is a person.
High-value airborne asset (HVAA) may be utilized when referring to aircraft.[2]
A high-payoff target (HPT), is a high-value target whose loss to the enemy will significantly contribute to the success of a friendly course of action.[1]
Various Joint Special Operations Task Forces (
Department of Defense programs to capture and subsequently interrogate terrorist leaders.[4]
See also
- High-value detention site
- List of assassinations by the United States
- Joint Special Operations Command Task Force in the Iraq War
- Manhunt (military)
- Operation Red Dawn
- USA kill or capture strategy in Iraq
- U.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis
- Ayman al-Zawahiri
Notes
- ^ a b Joint Publication 3-60: Joint Targeting (PDF). Just Security (Report). Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 31 January 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-04-23.
- ^ "Phoenix Successor Redux: The USNS Range Riposte to China's PL-17". Archived from the original on 2024-07-31. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
A possible target set for the now-in-service AIM-174B is what are sometimes referred to as high value airborne assets (HVAA). HVAAs include airborne early warning, electromagnetic combat and intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft as well as aircraft capable of carrying long-range anti-ship missiles of various descriptions.
- ^ Seymour M. Hersh (December 15, 2003). "Moving Targets". The New Yorker. Retrieved 13 February 2008.
- ^ Seymour M. Hersh (May 24, 2004). "The Gray Zone:How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib". The New Yorker.
External links
Look up HVT in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- United States Department of Defense definition High-Value Target (HVT) — A target the enemy commander requires for the successful completion of the mission. The loss of HVTs would be expected to seriously degrade important enemy functions throughout the friendly commander's area of interest. See also high-payoff target; target. (JP 3-09)
- Bin Laden Trail 'Stone Cold' Washington PostSeptember 10, 2006