User:RekonDog/Reconnaissance
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Reconnaissance (literately French "recognition" • from Middle French reconoissance; Old French reconoistre; "-to recognize"), is a military term denoting a preliminary survey; especially: an exploratory military survey (also scouting) conducted to gain, or collect information.[2] The term etymologically functions as a noun. However, the associated, linguistic forms are the verb reconnoitre (informal: recce [/ˈrɛki/]) in Australian, Canadian, and British spelling; and reconnoiter (informal: recon [/ˈriːkɒn/]) in American spelling.[3]
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Reconnaissance is a mission to obtain information by visual observation or other detection methods, about the activities and resources of an enemy or potential enemy, or about the meteorologic, hydrographic, or geographic characteristics of a particular area.[1]
Reconnaissance (FM 7-92; Chap. 4)
Primarily, reconnaissance denotes military terminology in reference to preliminary reconnaissance; the active seeking to determine a foe's intentions, by collecting and gathering information about an enemy's composition and capabilities, along with pertinent environmental conditions, via direct observation. Rangers, scouts, or military intelligence soldiers are trained in critical surveillance, by which its efforts contributes the main parts of combat intelligence, and is managed by the government-level intelligence cycle management.
There many generic uses of the term, reconnaissance, which also are applied to civilian applications—or fields of science or engineering—which occurs in geology, the "examination or survey of the general geological characteristics of a region"[4]; in computer networking and security, the "exploration or enumeration of network infrastructure including network addresses, available communication ports, and available services."[5]