By Craig BallI posted here a year ago laying out a detailed methodology for collection and preservation of the contents of a Gmail account in the static form of a standard Outlook PST. Try as I might to make it foolproof, downloading Gmail using IMAP and Outlook is tricky. Happily since my post, the geniuses at Google introduced a truly simple, no-cost way to collect Gmail and other Google content for preservation and portability. It sets a top flight example for online service providers, and presages how we may use the speed, power and flexibility of Google search as a culling mechanism [...]
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An Engagement Area (EA) is an area where the commander of a military force intends to contain and destroy an enemy force with the massed effects of all available weapons systems.
(FM 1-02, Operational Terms and Graphics, September 2004).