High-value target

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High-value individual (HVI) can be used if the target is a person.

A high-payoff target, also known as an 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.[3]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Seymour M. Hersh, Moving Targets, New Yorker, December 15, 2003 accessed at [1] on 13 Feb 2008
  3. ^ Seymour M. Hersh, "The Gray Zone:How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib", New Yorker, May 24, 2004 accessed at [2]

External links

  • 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)
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