ADP 3-0 Flashcards
What ADP covers Unified Land Operations?
ADP 3-0
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What is Unified Land Operations?
The Army’s contribution to the unified action
What does Unified Land Operations describe?
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
What is Army Doctrine?
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
What are operational variables?
Political Military Economic Social Information Infrastructure Physical Environment Time
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What are Mission Variables?
Mission Enemy Terrain and Weather Troops and Support Available Time Available Civil Considerations
METT-TC
What does it require for leaders to project and sustain forces in the operation environment?
The ability to secure multiple entry points into an area of operations and the lines of communications that connect those points
What is a non-static operational environment?
An Army leader may conduct major combat, military engagement, and humanitarian assistance simultaneously
When discussing security threats, what is a hybrid threat?
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
What is ADP 3-0 based on and how is it accomplished?
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
What are the Army’s two core competencies that provide balance to the Warfighting Functions?
- Combined Arms Maneuver
2. Wide Area Security
What guides leaders in the execution of unified land operations?
Philosophy of the command
What is the foundation of Unified Land Operations?
It is built on initiative, decisive action, and mission command
What is Offensive Operations?
Operations conducted to defeat and destroy enemy forecasted seize their terrain, resources, and population centers
What is Defensive Operations?
Operations conducted to defeat an enemy attack, gain time, economize forces, and develop conditions favorable for offensive and stability tasks
What are Stability Operations?
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
What are the 5 tasks for stability operations?
- Establish Civil Security
- Establish Civil Control
- Restore Essential Services
- Support to Governance
- Support to economic and infrastructure development
What is combined arms maneuver?
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
What is mission command philosophy?
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
What is the difference between a campaign and an operation?
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
What does adaptability have to do with leaders?
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
What does adaptation require?
An understanding of the operational environment
How do Army leaders build “depth” within their organizations in space, time, and resources?
Employing security forces and obstacles, maintaining reserves, conducting continuous reconnaissance, and managing the tempo of an operation
What is meant by synchronization?
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
