AFH 1 - Chapter 5 - Doctrine, Joint Force and Mobilization

Question 1

The growing threats to United States and allied interests throughout the world demand ______ be proficient across the range of military operations.

Answer 1

U.S. Armed Forces

Question 2

What operations are conducted routinely and efficiently in the current operational environment?

Answer 2

Joint Operations

Question 3

When _____ participate in multinational operations, our commanders follow multinational doctrine and ratified procedures.

Answer 3

U.S. Armed Forces

Question 4

Basic doctrine, contained in ____ 1, The Air Force, is the Air Force’s premier statement of our beliefs and the cornerstone upon which our Service identity is based.

Answer 4

Air Force Doctrine Publication

Question 5

Focusing on using forces within a domain is a vital _____ step to integration of efforts.

Answer 5

First

Question 6

The principles of joint operations are formed around the ____ traditional principles of war.

Answer 6

Nine

Question 7

What is an integral part of protecting aircraft and fixed bases where they are especially vulnerable?

Answer 7

Security through force protection

Question 8

What operations may require years to reach the termination criteria?

Answer 8

Joint operations

Question 9

What command is an approach to C2 that empowers subordinate decision-making for flexibility, initiative and responsiveness in the accomplishment of commander’s intent?

Answer 9

Mission command

Question 10

What command is the organizing standard for the effective and efficient means of employing airpower; it enables the principle of mass while maintaining the principle of economy of force?

Answer 10

Centralized command

Question 11

What force hold the ultimate high ground?

Answer 11

Space Force

Question 12

What commander should balance combat opportunity, necessity, effectiveness, efficiency, and the impact on accomplishing assigned objectives against the associated risk to friendly forces?

Answer 12

Air component commander

Question 13

What operations include combat when necessary to achieve objectives at all levels of warfare?

Answer 13

Joint operations

Question 14

One of the founding initiatives which addressed joint interdependence and joint interoperability was the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of _____.

Answer 14

1986

Question 15

What is the command authority that may be exercised by commanders at any echelon at or below the level of combatant command and may be delegated within the command?

Answer 15

OPCON

Question 16

What is a Service authority that flows through Service channels?

Answer 16

ADCON

Question 17

What is subject to the command authority of combatant commanders?

Answer 17

ADCON

Question 18

When mobilized under Title 10, USC, command of ______ is assigned by the Secretary of Defense to the combatant commands.

Answer 18

National Guard and Reserve Forces

Question 19

A joint force is a force composed of elements, assigned or attached, of ____ or more Military Departments operating under a single joint force commander.

Answer 19

Two

Question 20

What forces are established at three levels: unified combatant commands, subordinate unified commands, and joint task forces?

Answer 20

Joint forces

Question 21

A ___ is a term applied to a combatant commander, or joint task force commander authorized to exercise combatant command or operational control over a joint force.

Answer 21

JFC

Question 22

Who is responsible for the transfer of forces and other capabilities to designated subordinate commanders for accomplishing assigned tasks?

Answer 22

JFC

Question 23

A _____ will provide all available information to subordinate commanders that affect their missions and objectives.

Answer 23

JFC

Question 24

The title of commander, Air Force forces is reserved to identify the ____ commander of an Air Force component.

Answer 24

Air Force

Question 25

AETFs are sized and tailored to meet the ____ specific mission requirements.

Answer 25

JFC's

Question 26

If augmentation is needed, or if in-theater forces are not available, the _____ will draw from the air expeditionary force currently on rotation.

Answer 26

Air Force

Question 27

What may be regional or functional, aligning with the purpose of the joint force they support?

Answer 27

AOC

Question 28

If the _____ is designated as the JFACC, the AOC will typically received joint augmentation and become the joint AOC.

Answer 28

COMAFFOR

Question 29

The ______ staff is the mechanism through which the COMAFFOR exercises these Service responsibilities.

Answer 29

AFFOR

Question 30

What staff is responsible for the long-range planning and theater engagement operations that fall outside the AOC's current operational focus?

Answer 30

AFFOR

Question 31

If air assets from more than one Service are present within a joint force, the JFC normally will designate a ______ to exploit the full capabilities of joint air operations.

Answer 31

JFACC

Question 32

Who is typically the Service component commander with the preponderance of air capabilities and the ability to plan, task and control joint air operations?

Answer 32

JFACC

Question 33

Because of the wide scope of air operations, the ____ will typically maintain the same joint operating area/theater-wide perspective as the JFC.

Answer 33

JFACC

Question 34

The JFACC, as with any component commander, should not be dual-hatted as the _______.

Answer 34

JFC

Question 35

Joint planning is a means of preparing and managing _____ for mobilization, deployment, employment, sustainment, redeployment and demobilization.

Answer 35

Joint Forces

Question 36

What state is the set of required conditions that defines achievement of military objectives?

Answer 36

Military end state

Question 37

What employs an integrated process for orderly, analytical, and coordinated problem solving and decision-making known as the joint planning process?

Answer 37

Joint planning

Question 38

What begins when an appropriate authority recognizes potential for military capability to be employed in support of national objectives or in response to a potential or actual crisis?

Answer 38

Joint planning

Question 39

The _____ and staff develop a restated mission statement that allows subordinate and supporting commanders to begin their own estimates and planning efforts for higher headquarters' concurrence.

Answer 39

CCDR

Question 40

What is used to study the assigned tasks and to identify all other tasks necessary to accomplish the mission?

Answer 40

Mission analysis

Question 41

What is a potential way to accomplish the assigned mission?

Answer 41

COA

Question 42

A good ____ accomplishes the mission within the commander's guidance, provides flexibility to meet unforeseen events during execution, and positions the joint force for future operations.

Answer 42

COA

Question 43

Wargaming is a primary means for ______.

Answer 43

COA Analysis

Question 44

What is a conscious attempt to visualize the flow of the operation, given joint force strengths and dispositions, adversary capabilities and possible COAs, and other aspects of the Operating Environment?

Answer 44

COA wargaming

Question 45

Each critical event within a proposed ______ should be war-gamed based upon time available using the action, reaction, and counteraction method of friendly and/or opposing force interaction.

Answer 45

COA

Question 46

What facilitates the commander's decision-making process by balancing the ends, means, ways and risk of each COA?

Answer 46

COA comparison

Question 47

Leaders conduct joint planning to understand the strategic and operational environments to determine the best methods for employing __________ capabilities to achieve national objectives.

Answer 47

Department of Defense's

Question 48

The Chairman of _______, as the principal military advisor to the President and SecDef, may offer military advice on the proposed objectives and global prioritization.

Answer 48

Joint Chiefs of Staff

Question 49

What should help senior leaders determine if a military response can help achieve the desired objective at acceptable cost and risk levels?

Answer 49

Crisis planning

Question 50

What is a planning directive that provides essential planning guidance and directs the initiation of plan development after the directing authority approves a military COA?

Answer 50

Planning order

Question 51

An ALERTORD does not authorize execution of the approved _______.

Answer 51

COA

Question 52

What normally specifies the authority that the gaining combatant commander will exercise over the transferred forces?

Answer 52

Deployment or redeployment order

Question 53

What are designed to give an overall picture of an operation or emerging issue?

Answer 53

CONOPS

Question 54

Only the U.S. President and _____ have the authority to approve and direct the initiation of military operations.

Answer 54

Secretary of Defense

Question 55

The Chairman of ________, by authority of and at the direction of the U.S. President or Secretary of Defense, may subsequently issue an execute order to initiate military operations.

Answer 55

Joint Chiefs of Staff

Question 56

The _____ objectives serve as links between military activities and those of other DOD agencies in pursuit of national goals.

Answer 56

NDS

Question 57

The AEF concept was developed to allow ______, _______, and Air National Guard to serve as a combined force.

Answer 57

Regular Air Force, Reserve

Question 58

The ____ is a vehicle for managing and scheduling Air Force Forces for expeditionary purposes; it is not a war fighting organization.

Answer 58

AEF

Question 59

All Air Force personnel contribute to the ____ and are inherently deployable or employable in-place.

Answer 59

AEF

Question 60

A UTC is a five-character alphanumeric designator, designed to identify each type of unit in the ______ and its force capability with personnel and equipment requirements.

Answer 60

U.S. Armed Forces

Question 61

The assignment of a _______ categorizes each type of organization into a class or kind of unit having common distinguishing characteristics.

Answer 61

UTC

Question 62

What codes are used to indicate the number of UTCs required for assigned/committed missions, critical home station requirements, and the number of UTCs available to be simultaneously tasked for deployment?

Answer 62

Posturing codes

Question 63

What organizations identified as "other" will not posture UTCs?

Answer 63

Institutional organizations

Question 64

Units may be tasked to support a ______ they have not postured as long as the unit can meet the mission capability statement.

Answer 64

UTC

Question 65

UDMs support redeployed personnel and serve as the primary liaison to the unit training manager, flight/squadron leadership, wing training functions regarding deployment related issues, and ________.

Answer 65

Installation Deployment Readiness Cell

Question 66

What assessment is the only assessment system that reports at the UTC level and is the primary system used to source unit type codes for taskings and contingencies?

Answer 66

Unit Type Code Assessments

Question 67

Joint doctrine is the only type of doctrine that exists.

Answer 67

False

Question 68

Basic doctrine provides broad and continuing guidance on how the USAF is organized, employed, equipped and sustained.

Answer 68

True

Question 69

Tactical doctrine changes more rapidly compared to basic and operational doctrine.

Answer 69

True

Question 70

The principle of surprise leverages the element of security to attack the enemy at an unexpected time or in an unexpected manner.

Answer 70

True

Question 71

The principle of unity of effort emphasizes the need for various components, agencies, and partners to coordinate their actions and resources towards a common goal.

Answer 71

True

Question 72

The tenet of persistence in airpower operations emphasizes continuous and prolonged action against a broad spectrum of targets.

Answer 72

True

Question 73

The USAF possesses unique capabilities for ensuring global mobility, long-range strike and effective intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.

Answer 73

True

Question 74

Joint operations involve military actions conducted by joint forces in specified command relationships, including combat when necessary to achieve objectives at all levels of warfare.

Answer 74

True

Question 75

Multinational operations require the integration of necessary resources and interoperability across all domains to achieve overarching objectives.

Answer 75

True

Question 76

Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm demonstrated the value and effectiveness of joint and coalition military operations.

Answer 76

True

Question 77

Unity of command means all forces operate under a single commander, while unity of effort requires coordination and cooperation among all forces toward a commonly recognized objective.

Answer 77

True

Question 78

Joint planning is a means of preparing and managing Joint Forces for mobilization, deployment, employment, sustainment, redeployment and demobilization.

Answer 78

True

Question 79

The Joint Planning Process consists of five steps.

Answer 79

False (7)

Question 80

The Course of Action Analysis and Wargaming step in the Joint Planning Process is primarily focused on evaluating potential COAs.

Answer 80

True

Question 81

Campaign plans are designed to achieve strategic and operational objectives in a given time and space and often involve a single operation.

Answer 81

False (multi operational)

Question 82

Contingency plans are typically prepared in advance to address an anticipated crisis and do not require any modifications during execution.

Answer 82

False (requires modifications during execution)

Question 83

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has the authority to issue an execute order (EXORD) to initiate military operations.

Answer 83

False (President and Sec Def)

Question 84

The AEF is structured and executed based on three principles: transparency, predictability and equitability.

Answer 84

True

Question 85

The AEF concept was developed to allow the RegAF, Reserve and Air National Guard to serve as a combined force.

Answer 85

True

Question 86

The AEF is not a war fighting organization.

Answer 86

True (The Air Expeditionary Task Force is the war fighting organization)

Question 87

The Air Expeditionary Task Force (AETF) is normally the warfighting organization attached to the Joint Force command.

Answer 87

True

Question 88

The Adaptive Planning and Execution System facilities iterative dialogue and collaborative planning between multiple echelons of command.

Answer 88

True

Question 89

The AEF schedule operates on two 12-month life cycles that align with the Global Force Management Cycle and coincide with fiscal years.

Answer 89

True