Talk:Reconnaissance (military)

There are pages on surveillance aircraft and spy satellite which should be linked to, and some of the material on this page should be shifted to the aircraft page. I don't have time atm. --Robert Merkel 09:29, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

"Compare To"
I don't know if this is shown in all Wikipedia articles that are basically defenitions, but the way it is said seems very unclear, and I would think that most people would rather a sentence explaining how reconnaissance is not these things. Espire 18:03, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
 * It's just poor prose and style and symptomatic of the entire article. I put some tags on it. Quadzilla99 04:46, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

please add Reconnaissance term in the film making world etc location scouting... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nahawand (talk • contribs) 20:01, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Reconnaissance in force
Could someone knowledgeable add a blurb about the term "reconnaissance in force"? This term comes up a lot in military histories and fiction. I suspect it doesn't really need a separate article. Thanks. &mdash; Jeff Q 14:10, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, since no one rose to this challenge yet, I've added my own blurb, based on some quick scans of various dictionaries and military webpages, as well as my own impressions from reading historical and fictional works. If I have made any significant errors or misused any terminology, I ask that folks not bite my head off, but just make the corrections. Thanks. &mdash; Jeff Q (talk) 19:18, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This section is nigh-unreadable. I would go about copy editing it, but I honestly don't know what it's supposed to say. I will redo this section when I get a change (Unless, of course, someone else would be willing to lend a hand). Dpenn89 (talk) 04:13, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Point
"Point (military), the person at the front of a reconnaissance patrol, column or convoy" was recently added to point; anyone here care to sketch out an article on this, or add it here so it can be redirected, if appropriate? Thanks! &mdash; Catherine\talk 03:20, 6 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Sounds like something for wiktionary, along with vanguard (military). My Canadian Oxford Dictionary says the following, in the 28th noun sense out of 32:  —Michael Z. 2006-01-6 04:02 Z 


 * "point . . . 28 Military a a small patrol leading the advance of a larger body of combat troops. b esp. N Amer. the position at the head of a column or wedge of troops (walk point). c esp. N Amer. = POINT MAN . . . ."


 * "point man noun esp. N Amer. 1 the soldier at the head of a patrol. 2 a person who leads a new endeavor etc. 3 Hockey the player taking a position at the point during a power play."

Restructuring Reconnaissance
I believe that simple "reconnaissance" should be no more than a disambiguation page to reconnaissance (military), reconnaissance (network), etc. The military reconnaissance page could point to:
 * Reconnaissance in force by conventional units
 * Reconnaissance by recon units organic to conventional forces
 * Long Range Surveillance; US Marine Force Recon Battalions go here
 * Special reconnaissance; UK SAS/SBS/SRR, US Special Forces and certain other SOF units, Force Recon companies

Other national organizations are welcome, but I suspect most countries will fit into this four-level model. Russian style, where one company/battalion/etc. out of a battalion/regiment has additional recon training, might be an exception. Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 21:48, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Airborne reconnaissance
Is this the correct term? I would use "aerial reconnaissance". Airborne to me means "carried by air", eg paratroops. Cyclopaedic (talk) 12:28, 19 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Good observation. I made that heading refer to air and space, and put parachuting as one means by which SR troops can reach their area of operations. Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 16:02, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Network Reconnaissance
I think the "Network Reconnaissance" section should be removed to another article, we can always add a disambiguation page.--Afpre (talk) 20:47, 3 February 2008 (UTC) Best places I could find would be "Vulnerability scanner".--Afpre (talk) 14:34, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Amphibious Reconnaissance
I would like to see this page reconstructured, but let's point out that amphibious reconnaissance had definitely earned its place as a subcategory. I have also like to see the "Area of Influence" and "Area of Interest" that determines the different methods of reconnaissance, recon and 'deep' (or a.k.a. Long-range) recon. The Marine Corps utilizes amphibious reconnaissance as well as ground reconnaissance. Navy SEALs, and the Recon units in the U.S. Marine Corps have been adopted by many naval doctrines on amphibious warfare concerning reconnaissance in amphibious operations. The ground reconnaissance overlaps the duties of amphibious recon. I have extensive articles that I have encountered pertaining to the United States adoptation of 'amphibious reconnaissance'. Would anyone agree with me on elaborating more and adding a section on "Amphibious Reconnaissance"?

--RekonDog 14:23, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Move revert request

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: page moved.   A rbitrarily 0   ( talk ) 15:47, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Reconnaissance (military) → Reconnaissance — The military usage of the word "reconnaissance" is clearly the primary topic, and the newly-created DAB page should remain at Reconnaissance (disambiguation). - BilCat (talk) 20:56, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

New Revision (2010)
In regards to some various statements and discussions about the integrity of this article, I have revised this article due to missing allotted info on reconnaissance. I expanded the already-contained information that is still ever-present in this article, by addressing the military science of reconnaissance thereof. I made many substantial changes in regards to creating a globalized, worldwide view, in which this article was under scrutiny. Since reconnaissance is a element of military science, I retained the main theme in the body of this article.

My reasons are that this article contains too many redundant information and ambiguous statements that relate to the approach of reconnaissance insofar. Albeit, this article does contain many factual statements, however, there are some minor errors and missed implications that I feel that needed to be addressed. And I have fixed some issues that may had (or not) been changed/corrected (on the behalf of others), and produced a format that may allow this article to be expanded even further. Sorry if I may caused repercussions on those that are affected by these changes.—RekonDog (talk) 22:14, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Historical reconnaissance
Could somebody with sufficient knowledge add a section (or several) about how reconnaissance was performed historically?