qualitative military edge
Defined in 2 places of the United States Code.
In this subsection, the term “qualitative military edge” means the ability to counter and defeat any credible conventional military threat from any individual state or possible coalition of states or from non-state actors, while sustaining minimal damages and casualties, through the use of superior military means, possessed in sufficient quantity, including weapons, command, control, communication, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities that in their technical characteristics are superior in capability to those of such other individual or possible coalition of states or non-state actors.
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- 2008–present22 U.S.C. § 2776Foreign Relations and Intercourse · Reports and certifications to Congress on military exports · under this section
The term "qualitative military edge" has the meaning given the term in section 2776(h)(2) 1 of this title.
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- 2014–present22 U.S.C. § 8605Foreign Relations and Intercourse · Definitions · in this chapter
The term “qualitative military edge” has the meaning given the term in section 2776(h)(2) of this title.
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- 2012–201422 U.S.C. § 8605Foreign Relations and Intercourse · Definitions · in this chapter