ADP 3-0 / ADRP 3-0 - Unified Land Operations

Question 1

What ADP/ADRP covers unified land operations?

Answer 1

ADP/ADRP 3-0.

Question 2

What is the Army’s warfighting doctrine?

Answer 2

Unified land operations.

Question 3

What is the description of unified land operations?

Answer 3

Unified land operations 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 the goal of unified land operations?

Answer 4

The goal of unified land operations is to apply landpower as part of unified action to defeat the enemy on land and establish conditions that achieve the joint force commander’s end state.

Question 5

What is unified action?

Answer 5

Unified action is the synchronization, coordination, and/or integration of the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities with military operations to achieve unity of effort.

Question 6

What are the operational variables?

Answer 6

The operational variables consist of political, military, economic, social, information, infrastructure, physical environment, time (known as PMESII-PT).

Question 7

What are the mission variables?

Answer 7

The mission variables consist of mission, enemy, terrain and weather, troops and support available, time available, civil considerations (known as METT-TC).

Question 8

What is a series of related major operations aimed at achieving strategic and operational objectives within a given time and space?

Answer 8

A campaign.

Question 9

What are the Troop Leading Procedures?

Answer 9

Step 1.  Receive the Mission
Step 2.  Issue a warning order
Step 3.  Make a tentative plan
Step 4.  Start necessary movement
Step 5.  Reconnoiter
Step 6.  Complete the plan
Step 7.  Issue the complete order
Step 8.  Supervise
(1.)	 Rehearsals.
(2.)	 Inspections.

Question 10

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

Answer 10

An operation.

Question 11

What is a battle or engagement, employing lethal or nonlethal actions, designed for a specific purpose relative to the enemy, the terrain, friendly forces, or other entity?

Answer 11

A tactical action.

Question 12

How are Army operations characterized?

Answer 12

Army operations are characterized by flexibility, integration, lethality, adaptability, depth, and synchronization.

Question 13

What is Operational Art?

Answer 13

Operational art is the pursuit of strategic objectives, in whole or in part, through the arrangement of tactical actions in time, space, and purpose.

Question 14

What is MDMP?

Answer 14

The military decision-making process.

Question 15

How do Army forces demonstrate their core competencies of combined arms maneuver and wide area Security?

Answer 15

By combining offensive, defensive, and stability or defense support of civil authorities tasks simultaneously.

Question 16

What are the six fundamental principles of mission command?

Answer 16

• Build cohesive teams through mutual trust.
• Create shared understanding.
• Provide a clear commander’s intent.
• Exercise disciplined initiative.
• Use mission orders.
• Accept prudent risk.

Question 17

The Soldier’s Rules in Army regulations distill the essence of the law of war. They outline the ethical and lawful conduct required of Soldiers in operations. What are the Soldier’s Rules?

Answer 17

• Soldiers fight only enemy combatants.
• Soldiers do not harm enemies who surrender. They disarm them and turn them over to their superior.
• Soldiers do not kill or torture any personnel in their custody.
• Soldiers collect and care for the wounded, whether friend or foe.
• Soldiers do not attack medical personnel, facilities, or equipment.
• Soldiers destroy no more than the mission requires.
• Soldiers treat civilians humanely.
• Soldiers do not steal. Soldiers respect private property and possessions.
• Soldiers should do their best to prevent violations of the law of war.
• Soldiers report all violations of the law of war to their superior.