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'''Site exploitation''', also called '''tactical site exploitation'''<ref>http://www.cttso.gov/?q=Tactical_Site_Exploitation</ref> or '''sensitive site exploitation (SSE)''', is a [[military term]] used by the [[United States]] to describe "collecting information, material, and

persons from a designated ___location and analyzing them to answer information requirements,

facilitate subsequent operations, or support criminal prosecution."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://armypubs.army.mil/doctrine/DR_pubs/dr_a/pdf/attp3_90x15.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2014-04-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327003246/http://armypubs.army.mil/doctrine/DR_pubs/dr_a/pdf/attp3_90x15.pdf |archivedate=2014-03-27 }}</ref>

Also called '''tactical site exploitation'''<ref>http://www.cttso.gov/?q=Tactical_Site_Exploitation</ref> or '''sensitive site exploitation (SSE)'''.

Sensitive site exploitation was conducted during the invasion of Iraq in [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]] when a key part of the Coalition Forces' mission was to discover [[weapons of mass destruction]] (WMDs). The "sensitive" of SSE referred to the possibility that sites searched might have contained [[CBRN (weapon)|chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear]] (CBRN) materials inherent in WMDs. Later, an effort was made to refer to the practice as "SE" (site exploitation) instead of "SSE" because sites were still being searched and exploited, but more generally for intelligence gathering and not with the intent of locating WMDs.