However, the battle group is also able to conduct effective non-kinetic operations, sometimes at considerable cost to the soldiers.

But interestingly the report says that the Taliban is now focusing on "non-kinetic means of influencing the local population."

Methods for the determination of organic reaction mechanisms, both in a kinetic and non-kinetic sense.

They prefer to talk about "kinetic" and "non-kinetic" forms of defeating the insurgency.

"For me the critical thing is to be non-kinetic," he says, employing Nato-speak for not shooting.

Pakistani officials have admitted that US drones are based in Pakistan for "non-kinetic" use.

The selective use of kinetic and non-kinetic means to generate the desired lethal or non-lethal effects will be essential for future operations.

Also as noted above, JTF-Afg has an ensemble of other non-kinetic elements that keep busy.

General Casey tells American units that it is the military's non-kinetic activity that will win the war, as much as or more than the kinetic.

And the Navy is developing "a non-lethal, non-attributable system designed to offer non-kinetic offensive information operation solutions," according to Pentagon budget documents.

Their mission sets involve both kinetic and non-kinetic operations and include sensitive missions that reside in the cyber domain.

West has grave reservations about extolling the effects of "non-kinetic COIN" (counterinsurgency).

LRAD systems are used for long range communications in a variety of applicationsincluding as a means of non-lethal, non-kinetic crowd control.

Second, the inertia field offers little protection against weapons based on non-kinetic energy like thermal (e.g., flamethrowers) or electrical (e.g., tasers).

The same applies to the homegrown terror threat: We have to be creative and employ non-kinetic tools if we are to have any hope of succeeding.

"Real" mass: the mass of a particle is equal to the non-kinetic energy of a particle divided by the speed of light squared.

In 2004 SEAS was evaluated for its ability to help simulate "the non-kinetic aspects of combat, things like the diplomatic, economic, political, infrastructure and social issues".

In August 2008, Russia again allegedly conducted cyberattacks, this time in a coordinated and synchronized kinetic and non-kinetic campaign against the country of Georgia.

However, the greatest reason for maintaining elite organizations is the capability they provide the government – a panoply of options (both kinetic and non-kinetic) that are not available elsewhere.

Commanders now have the access, flexibility, functionality, and speed, to support mission area planning for adaptive, and crisis action planning for both kinetic and non-kinetic operations.

The kinetic element consists of units that are going into direct contact with the enemy and the non-kinetic element consists of support and logistic units.

In the campaign against terrorism, it will be capable of applying subtle, discrete and surgically-precise kinetic and non-kinetic effects under the most hostile, difficult or politically sensitive conditions.

Joint Non-Kinetic Effects Model (JNEM)

To balance its non-kinetic capability, the PRT can conduct low-level kinetic operations if required, usually to protect other elements of the PRT.

"Prudence demands that future conflicts could involve kinetic and non-kinetic (use of explosive weapons and laser weapons) attacks on space-based surveillance and communications," according to the draft.