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• open hostilities — begin a hostile action, start an act of war or aggression …   English contemporary dictionary

• hostilities — n. war 1) to open hostilities 2) to suspend hostilities 3) hostilities break out 4) an outbreak of hostilities 5) hostilities between * * * [ war ] to open hostilities an outbreak of hostilities to suspend hostilities hostilities between… …   Combinatory dictionary

• open — adj., v., & n. adj. 1 not closed or locked or blocked up; allowing entrance or passage or access. 2 a (of a room, field, or other area) having its door or gate in a position allowing access, or part of its confining boundary removed. b (of a… …   Useful english dictionary

• hostilities — Synonyms and related words: all out war, appeal to arms, armed combat, armed conflict, attack, battle, belligerence, belligerency, bloodshed, combat, fighting, hot war, la guerre, might of arms, military operations, open hostilities, open war,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Open-source intelligence — (OSINT) is a form of intelligence collection management that involves finding, selecting, and acquiring information from publicly available sources and analyzing it to produce actionable intelligence. In the intelligence community (IC), the term… …   Wikipedia

• open — I. adjective (opener; openest) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German offan open, Old English ūp up Date: before 12th century 1. having no enclosing or confining barrier ; accessible on all or nearly all sides …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Open Source Intelligence — This article is a subset article in a series under intelligence collection management. For a hierarchical list of articles, see the intelligence cycle management hierarchy. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is an information processing discipline… …   Wikipedia

• Hostilities — Hostility Hos*til i*ty, n.; pl. {Hostilities}. [L. hostilitas: cf. F. hostilit[ e].] 1. State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity. [1913 Webster] Hostility being thus suspended with France. Hayward. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Open Christmas Letter — Emily Hobhouse authored the Open Christmas Letter and circulated it for signatures. The Open Christmas Letter was a public message for peace addressed To the Women of Germany and Austria ,[1] signed by a group of 101 British women suffragists …   Wikipedia

• Transition to and From Hostilities — The Defense Science Board report, Transition to and from Hostilities , published in December 2004, was the foundation for the new DoD Instruction 3000 that elevates Operations Other Than War (OOTW) to co equal status with combat operations.The… …   Wikipedia

• international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …   Universalium