Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.Reconnaissance (also scouting) is a military and medical term denoting exploration conducted to gain information. Militarily, its shorthand Canadian and British form is recce (pronounced / r ki/), its American usage form is recon (pronounced / ri k n/). The associated, linguistic forms are the verb reconnoitre in British spelling, and reconnoiter in American spelling; informally, recce and recon are used as a verb.