Reconnaissance

For Network reconnaissance (computer security), see Vulnerability scanner.

Mixed reconnaissance patrol of the Polish Home Army and the Soviet Red Army during Operation Tempest, 1944

Reconnaissance (also scouting) is a military and medical term denoting exploration conducted to gain information. Militarily, it's shorthand Australian, Canadian, and British form is recce (Template:PronEng), its American U.S.A. and U.S.M.C. usage form is recon (Template:PronEng). The associated, linguistic forms are the verb reconnoitre in British spelling, and reconnoiter in American spelling; informally, recce and recon are used as a verb.

Militarily, reconnaissance is 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, usually by scouts or military intelligence soldiers especially trained in critical surveillance.

Reconnaissance is part of combat intelligence, and contributes to, and is managed by, the government-level intelligence cycle management. Compare to counterintelligence and surveillance, which are the passive gathering of data and information. Special reconnaissance is the reconnaissance sub-activity of clandestinely collecting data and information by people and with technology behind enemy lines.

Civil uses of the term reconnaissance occur in geology, the "examination or survey of the general geological characteristics of a region", and in computer networking and security it is an "exploration or enumeration of network infrastructure including network addresses, available communication ports, and available services."

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See also

• Formation Reconnaissance Regiment
• Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance
• Special Reconnaissance Regiment
• Særlig Støtte og Rekognoscering SSR - Special Support & Reconnaissance Coy (Danish)
• U.S. Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance
• U.S. Marine Corps Radio Reconnaissance
• U.S. Army Long Range Surveillance
• Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
• The South Alberta Light Horse
• The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment) (RCAC)
• The Ontario Regiment (RCAC)
• United States Cavalry
• Surveillance aircraft
• Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group
• Rogers' Rangers
• Traditional Apache scouts and U.S. Army Indian Scouts
• Airborne pathfinders
• Reconnaissance Corps
• 4th Reconnaissance Regiment (4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards)
• 7th Reconnaissance Regiment (17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars)
• 8th Reconnaissance Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars)
• 3rd Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (The Governor General's Horse Guards)
• 29th Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (The South Alberta Regiment)

External links

• Israeli Special Forces Recon Units at isayeret.com
• U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission: "Military Use of Balloons During the Napoleonic Era". Accessed April 1, 2007.
• "A Tale of Two Airplanes" by Ltc. Kingdon R. Hawes