Fires (military)

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Fires is the related tasks and systems that provide collective and coordinated use of Army indirect fires, air and missile defense, and joint fires through the targeting process.^[1] Alternatively, it can be defined as the use of weapon systems to create a specific lethal or nonlethal effect on a target.^[2]

Fires has traditionally focused on fire support systems such as artillery and close air support, but is increasingly being used to refer to non-lethal systems including information operations, cyberwarfare, and civilian-military relationships.^[3]