enemy capabilities meaning

• [Defence]
  Those courses of action of which the enemy is physically capable and that, if adopted, will affect accomplishment of the friendly mission.
  The term “capabilities” includes not only the general courses of action open to the enemy, such as attack, defense, reinforcement, or withdrawal, but also all the particular courses of action possible under each general course of action.
  “Enemy capabilities” are considered in the light of all known factors affecting military operations, including time, space, weather, terrain, and the strength and disposition of enemy forces.
  In strategic thinking, the capabilities of a nation represent the courses of action within the power of the nation for accomplishing its national objectives throughout the range of military operations.
  See also capability; course of action; mission.
  (JP 2-01.3)

• Military science is also used to establish enemy capability as part of technical intelligence.
• Throughout the war he would rise at 5 : 30 AM to prepare a top-secret newspaper on enemy capabilities and intentions.
• Verify, through observation or other collection methods, information concerning enemy capabilities, intentions, and activities in support of strategic / operational objectives or conventional forces.
• Critical threats are usually maintained in a prioritized file, with important enemy capabilities analyzed on a schedule set by an estimate of the enemy's preparation time.
• This encompassed a vast portfolio of programs including Trident, Minuteman Reentry, Ballistic Missile Targets, which simulate enemy capabilities, Directed Energy systems such as the Aldermasten.
• IMETS produces displays and disseminates, over Army ABCS, weather forecasts and tactical decision aids that compare the impact of current, projected, or hypothesized weather conditions on friendly and enemy capabilities.
• These sensors produce too much data for the onboard computers to fully process so sensor fusion is achieved by comparing what is observed against preloaded threat libraries that contain known enemy capabilities for a given region.
• This includes development of defence plans; training personnel in the use and defence against nuclear weapons; evaluation of enemy capabilities; development of nuclear delivery systems; and research, development and design of military reactors.
• Napoleon also instituted the staff procedure of maintaining accurate information about the composition of the enemy order of battle, and tables of organisation, and this later evolved into an important function and an organisational tool used by military intelligence to analyse enemy capability for combat.
• The armed forces face a broader and more complicated range of enemy capabilities, from shadowy terrorist cells who turn hijacked jetliners into missiles to countries like Iraq or North Korea that field traditional armies and would fight ferociously to defend complicated urban terrain _ and are suspected of having arsenals of unconventional weapons.

• "enemy capabilities" meaning in Chinese: [网络] 敌军战力