High-value target

In United States military terminology, high-value target (HVT) is the term used to describe a person or resource which an enemy commander can least afford to lose.[1] The term has been widely used in the news media for Osama bin Laden and high-ranking officers of al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was known as High-Value Target Number One by the United States military before his capture.

High-value individual (HVI) can be used if the target is a person.

High-value airborne asset (HVAA) may be utilized when referring to aircraft.[2]

A high-payoff target (HPT), is a high-value target whose loss to the enemy will significantly contribute to the success of a friendly course of action.[1]

Various Joint Special Operations Task Forces (Task Force 145, Task Force 121, Task Force 11, Task Force 6-26) have been established for the main purposes of capturing or killing targets judged to be vital to an enemy's chances for success. Forces assigned to these include units mainly from the Joint Special Operations Command and SOCOM such as the US Navy SEALs, US Army Delta Force, US Navy SEAL Team Six, US Army 75th Ranger Regiment and elements of the British Army's Special Air Service (SAS).[3] The term has also become associated with secret US Department of Defense programs to capture and subsequently interrogate terrorist leaders.[4]

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Notes

  1. ^ a b Joint Publication 3-60: Joint Targeting (PDF). Just Security (Report). Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 31 January 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-04-23.
  2. ^ "Phoenix Successor Redux: The USNS Range Riposte to China's PL-17". Archived from the original on 2024-07-31. Retrieved 2024-07-31. A possible target set for the now-in-service AIM-174B is what are sometimes referred to as high value airborne assets (HVAA). HVAAs include airborne early warning, electromagnetic combat and intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft as well as aircraft capable of carrying long-range anti-ship missiles of various descriptions.
  3. ^ Seymour M. Hersh (December 15, 2003). "Moving Targets". The New Yorker. Retrieved 13 February 2008.
  4. ^ Seymour M. Hersh (May 24, 2004). "The Gray Zone:How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib". The New Yorker.
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