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  ViolentContest

Sigma KEE - ViolentContest

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affrontement violent
A Contest where one participant attempts to physically injure another participant.
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Parents affrontement A SocialInteraction where the agent and patient are CognitiveAgents who are trying to defeat one another. Note that this concept is often applied in a metaphorical sense in natural language, when we speak, e.g., of the struggle of plants for space or sunlight, or of bacteria for food resources in some environment.
Children batailleA ViolentContest between two or more military units within the context of a war. Note that this does not cover the metaphorical sense of 'battle', which simply means a struggle of some sort. This sense should be represented with the more general concept of Contest.
 BoxingA sport which involves two participants who try to knock each other out in a limited number of rounds. Note that each instance of Boxing is a boxing match.
 ChemicalAttackAn attack against people or property in which a chemical agent is used as the active ingredient of the attack.
 DirectActionThese are short-duration strikes and other small-scale offensive actions conducted as a special operation in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments and which employ specialized military capabilities to seize, destroy, capture, exploit, recover, or damage designated targets. DA differs from conventional offensive actions in the level of physical and political risk, operational techniques, and the degree of discriminate and precise use of force to achieve specific objectives. Activities within DA include the following: (1) Raids, Ambushes, and Direct Assaults. These are operations designed to achieve specific, well-defined and often time-sensitive results. They are sometimes beyond the effective strike capabilities of conventional force elements. Such operations typically involve attacks on critical targets, interdiction of LOCs or other target systems, capturing designated personnel or material, or the seizure, destruction, or neutralization of adversary facilities or capabilities. (2) Standoff Attacks. These are attacks by weapon systems or through IO. Standoff attacks can be conducted by air, maritime, or by ground platforms or units. When targets can be sufficiently damaged or destroyed without the commitment of close-combat forces, these attacks can be performed as independent actions. (3) Terminal Attack Control and Terminal Guidance Operations. These are actions to identify and precisely report the location of targets, and with global positioning systems, laser designators, beacons, or other means, conduct either terminal attack control (TAC) or terminal guidance operations (TGO) to effectively engage them. TAC involves actions to control the maneuver of and grant weapons release clearance to attacking aircraft. TGO includes any electronic, mechanical, voice or visual communication that provides approaching aircraft or weapons additional information regarding a specific location or target. TAC differs from TGO in that TAC includes the authority to clear aircraft to release ordnance and TGO does not. Because of this, TAC requires individuals to be qualified as joint terminal attack controllers, but TGO does not. (4) Recovery Operations. These are operations conducted to search for, locate, identify, rescue, and return personnel, sensitive equipment, or items critical to national security. SO recovery missions are characterized by detailed planning, rehearsal, and thorough intelligence analysis. These operations employ unconventional tactics and techniques, clandestine search, possible indigenous assistance, and the frequent use of ground combat elements. (5) Precision Destruction Operations. These are operations in which collateral damage must be minimized, requiring highly sophisticated weapons and/or timed detonation of specific amounts of explosives placed in exact locations to accomplish mission objectives. Precision destruction operations can be conducted against targets where precision-guided munitions cannot guarantee first strike success or when the contents of a facility must be destroyed without damage to that facility. (6) Anti-Surface Operations. These are operations conducted against adversary maritime surface targets, including combatants. These include, but are not limited to, visit, board, search, and seizure operations which are shipboarding operations to board and seize cooperative, uncooperative, or hostile contacts of interest.
 DirectActionActivityThe class of subProcesses of a DirectAction.
 IncendiaryDeviceAttackAn attack in which an agent uses a device which causes fire in order to destroy life or property.
 KnifeAttackAn attack in which a knife is used.
 MilitaryAssaultclose fighting during the culmination of a military attack.
 PhysicalViolenceViolence is aggression that has extreme physical harm as its goal. [Source: OCEAS]
 PoliticalRevolutionThe violent overthrow of one Government and its replacement by another. This covers grass-roots revolutions, as well as coups d'etat.
 StoningAn act where a victim or victims is attacked with stones. The stones may either be placed on top of a victim in order to cause death by pressure and suffocation, in which case the act is typically part of a ritualized legal sentence, or where the victim is pelted with stones causing injury or death by trauma. The intent of such an act is usually the death of the victim.
 TerrorismWN: the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature, this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear.
 VehicleAttackAn event in which a vehicle is used by an agent in order to inflict injury, death or damage to people or property.
 guerreA military confrontation between two or more GeopoliticalAreas or Organizations whose members are GeopoliticalAreas. As the corresponding axiom specifies, a War is made up of Battles.


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