What does OSOW stand for?

Operations Short Of War

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Military and Government

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Samples in periodicals archive:

That includes a range of military operations short of war, including ensuring the freedom of navigation, enforcing sanctions, and combating piracy.

A new grand bargain: implementing the comprehensive approach in ...

Too much emphasis is given instead to the tactical employment of naval forces and to various noncombat missions in operations short of war.

On major naval operations

Through coordination, they can attain this high level of performance across the spectrum of multinational operations, from all-out war to operations short of war.

Joint Publication 3-16, Joint Doctrine for Multinational Operations: ...