Understanding of Operation Security

Operational Security
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Operational Security
Operational security (OPSEC) is a risk management procedure that keeps potential enemies from discovering the military’s critical information. It protects military community operations – planned, in progress, as well as those completed. Its fundamental principles include surprise and secrecy to ensure the military accomplishes its mission at a lower risk and quicker. The army’s OPSEC constitutes regulatory guidance – a process of evaluating friendly actions pursuant of military activities and operations. OPSEC is an operations role that sustains essential secrecy. In this vein, it is applied during warfare, peace, and crisis within all army operations, including support activities. The OPSEC process incorporates five steps, including (a) identification of critical information, (b) analyzing potential threats, (c) analyzing the vuln...