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  2. Interdiction - Wikipedia

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    In the military, interdiction is the act of delaying, disrupting, or destroying enemy forces or supplies en route to the battle area. [1] [2] A distinction is often made between strategic and tactical interdiction. The former refers to operations whose effects are broad and long-term; tactical operations are designed to affect events rapidly ...

  3. Interdict - Wikipedia

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    Only the Holy See was empowered to impose a general interdict on a diocese or State or a personal interdict on the people of a diocese or country, but bishops too could impose a general interdict on a parish or on the people of a parish or a particular interdict on a place (such as a church or oratory, an altar or a cemetery) or a person.

  4. Interdict (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Air interdiction, the use of aircraft to attack targets behind the front lines Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Interdict .

  5. Glossary of RAF code names - Wikipedia

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    Diver – radio-telephony code word for a sighted V-1 flying bomb. Fighter night – introduced in November 1940, night patrols above a specified height with orders to shoot down any multi-engined aircraft. [1] Flower – counter-air patrols in the area of enemy airfields to preventing aircraft from taking off and attacking those aircraft that ...

  6. Interdictor - Wikipedia

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    Interdiction prevents or delays enemy forces and supplies from reaching the battlefront; the term has generally fallen from use. [citation needed] The strike fighter is a closely related concept, [citation needed] but puts more emphasis on air-to-air combat capabilities as a multirole combat aircraft.

  7. Maritime security operations - Wikipedia

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    Their role is to provide port & waterway security, drug interdiction, search and rescue, marine environment protection, ICE operations, aids to navigation, living marine recourses, marine safety, defense readiness, law enforcement and migrant interdiction along with several other missions. Overall, their role is to provide a safer maritime ...

  8. Air interdiction - Wikipedia

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    Air interdiction (AI), also known as deep air support (DAS), is the use of preventive tactical bombing and strafing by combat aircraft against enemy targets that are not an immediate threat, to delay, disrupt or hinder later enemy engagement of friendly forces.

  9. Drug interdiction in United States law enforcement - Wikipedia

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    Drug interdiction, the interruption and interception of drugs to prevent them from reaching their destination, [1] is a tactic often used by U.S. law enforcement in the context of traffic stops. Law enforcement use pretextual traffic stops in order to stop drivers.