ADP 3-0

Question 1

What ADP covers Unified Land Operations?

Answer 1

ADP 3-0

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Question 2

What is Unified Land Operations?

Answer 2

The Army’s contribution to the unified action

Question 3

What does Unified Land Operations describe?

Answer 3

It describes how the Army seizes, retains, and exploits the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage in sustained land operations through simultaneous offensive, defensive, and stability operations in order to prevent or deter conflict, prevail in war, and create the conditions for favorable conflict resolution

Question 4

What is Army Doctrine?

Answer 4

A body of thought on how the Army forces operate as an integral part of a joint force

Act as a guide rather than a set of find rules

serves as a basis for decisions about organization, training, leader development, material, Soldiers and facilities

Question 5

What are operational variables?

Answer 5

Political 
Military 
Economic
Social 
Information
Infrastructure
Physical Environment
Time 

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Question 6

What are Mission Variables?

Answer 6

Mission
Enemy
Terrain and Weather
Troops and Support Available
Time Available
Civil Considerations 

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Question 7

What does it require for leaders to project and sustain forces in the operation environment?

Answer 7

The ability to secure multiple entry points into an area of operations and the lines of communications that connect those points

Question 8

What is a non-static operational environment?

Answer 8

An Army leader may conduct major combat, military engagement, and humanitarian assistance simultaneously

Question 9

When discussing security threats, what is a hybrid threat?

Answer 9

A dynamic combination of regular forces, irregular forces, terrorist forces, criminal elements, or a combination of these forces and elements all unified to achieve mutually benefiting effects

Question 10

What is ADP 3-0 based on and how is it accomplished?

Answer 10

It is based on the central idea that army units seize, retain, and exploit the initiative to gain a position of relative advantage over the enemy

It is accomplished through simultaneous combination of offensive, defensive and sustainments operations that set conditions for favorable conflict resolution

Question 11

What are the Army’s two core competencies that provide balance to the Warfighting Functions?

Answer 11

1. Combined Arms Maneuver

2. Wide Area Security

Question 12

What guides leaders in the execution of unified land operations?

Answer 12

Philosophy of the command

Question 13

What is the foundation of Unified Land Operations?

Answer 13

It is built on initiative, decisive action, and mission command

Question 14

What is Offensive Operations?

Answer 14

Operations conducted to defeat and destroy enemy forecasted seize their terrain, resources, and population centers

Question 15

What is Defensive Operations?

Answer 15

Operations conducted to defeat an enemy attack, gain time, economize forces, and develop conditions favorable for offensive and stability tasks

Question 16

What are Stability Operations?

Answer 16

Military missions, tasks and activities conducted outside the United States to maintain or reestablish a safe and secure environment and to provide essential governmental services, emergency infrastructure reconstruction, and humanitarian relief

Question 17

What are the 5 tasks for stability operations?

Answer 17

1. Establish Civil Security
2. Establish Civil Control
3. Restore Essential Services
4. Support to Governance
5. Support to economic and infrastructure development

Question 18

What is combined arms maneuver?

Answer 18

The application of the elements of combat power in unified action to defeat enemy ground forces; to seize, occupy, and defend land areas; and to achieve physical, temporal, and psychological advantages over the enemy to seize and exploit the initiative

Question 19

What is mission command philosophy?

Answer 19

The exercise of authority and direction by the commander using mission orders to enable disciplined initiative within the commander’s intent to empower agile and adaptive leaders in the conduct of unified land operations

Question 20

What is the difference between a campaign and an operation?

Answer 20

Campaign - a series of related major operations aimed at achieving strategic and operational objectives within a given time and space

Operation - a military action, consisting of two or more related tactical actions, designed to achieve a strategic objective, in a whole or part

Question 21

What does adaptability have to do with leaders?

Answer 21

Army leaders must adapt their thinking, their formations, and their employment techniques to the specific situation they face

Leaders must have an adaptive mind and a willingness to accept prudent risk in unfamiliar or rapidly changing situations

Question 22

What does adaptation require?

Answer 22

An understanding of the operational environment

Question 23

How do Army leaders build “depth” within their organizations in space, time, and resources?

Answer 23

Employing security forces and obstacles, maintaining reserves, conducting continuous reconnaissance, and managing the tempo of an operation

Question 24

What is meant by synchronization?

Answer 24

the ability to execute multiple, related and mutually supporting tasks in different locations at the same time, producing greater effects than executing each task in isolation

Question 25

What is operational art?

Answer 25

• It is the pursuit if strategic objective in whole or part through the arrangement of tactical actions in time, space, and purpose
• Creating the military conditional necessary for the termination of conflict on favorable terms
• It is not associated with a particular echelon or formation, nor is it exclusive to theater or joint forces commanders

Question 26

What are security operations?

Answer 26

• Effort to provide early and accurate warning of enemy operations
• Provides the force with time and maneuver space within which to react
• Protect the force from surprise and develop the situation so the commander can effectively use the force
• Include necessary actions to retain freedom of action and ensure uninterrupted support or sustainment of all other operations

Question 27

What is the difference between a main effort and supporting efforts

Answer 27

Main - is the designated subordinate unit whose mission at a given point in time is most critical to overall mission success

Supporting - Are designated subordinate units with mission success of the main effort

Question 28

What is a warfighting function?

Answer 28

A group of tasks and systems, organizations, information, and united by a common purpose that commanders use to accomplish missions

Question 29

What are the Army warfighting functions?

Answer 29

• Movement and Maneuver
• Intelligence
• Fires
• Sustainment
• Protection

Question 30

What is the Army’s “proven formula” for success?

Answer 30

seize, retain and exploit the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage in sustained land operations through simultaneous offensive, defensive, and stability or defensive support of civil authorities operations in order to prevent or deter conflict, prevail in war, and create the conditions for favorable conflict resolution