All ADP Questions Flashcards
What is ADP 1
The Army
What is ADRP 1
The Army’s Profession
What’s the Army’s mission
- Organizing, equipping, and training Army forces for prompt and sustained combat incident to operations on land
- integrating our capabilities with those of the other Armed Forces
- accomplishing all missions assigned by the president, secretary of defense, and combatant commanders
- remaining ready while preparing for the future
The Army’s vision captures three strategic roles, what are they?
Prevent, Shape, and Win
Of the five domains that the US forces operate in what is the most complex and why?
The land domain because it addresses humanity - it’s cultures, ethnicities, religion, and politics
ADRP1 is titled the Army’s profession what does it mean to be a profession?
A profession is a trusted self policing and relatively autonomous vocation whose members develop and apply expert knowledge to render an essential service to society in a particular field
What is the Army Ethic?
The Army Ethic is evolving set of laws, values, beliefs, deeply embedded within the core of the army culture and practice by all members of the army profession to motivate and guid the appropriate conduct of individual members bound together in common moral purpose
The Army contribution to the joint force has two core competencies, what are they?
- combined arms maneuver
- wide area security
The Army contribution to Joint forces has seven enabling competencies what are they?
- support security cooperation
- Tailor forces for the combatant Commander
- conduct entry operations
- provide flexible Mission command
- support joint and Army forces
- support domestic civil authorities
- mobilize and integrate the Reserve Components
ADP / ADRP 1 - 02
Operational Terms and Military Symbols
What does ADP 1 - 02 provide
ADP 1-02 provides foundational doctrine for establishing and using terms, acronyms, and symbols
What terms does ADRP 1-02 not include?
ADRP 1-02 doesn’t include Army Branch or functional area specific terms that have limited use
What does ADRP 1-02 provide in terms of symbols?
Provides single standard for developing and depicting hand-drawn and computer generated military symbols
What is the standard frame shape for any hostile entity?
A diamond
What is the standard frame shape for any unknown entity?
A cloud
What are the colors or fill that are used for framed symbols to indicate identity?
- red for hostile
- blue for friendly
- green for neutral
- yellow for unknown
What are the only modifiers for control measures?
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear events and contaminated areas
What are the tactical task symbols used for?
Tactical task symbols are for use in course of action sketches, synchronization matrixes, and maneuver sketches
What type of frame can equipment symbols use?
Equipment symbols can be used with or without frames
What is a control measure?
A control measure is a means of regulating forces or warfighting functions
ADP / ADRP 2-0
Intelligence
What does IPB stand for?
Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield
What is the value of the intelligence enterprise?
The value of the intelligent enterprise is the ability it provides to leverage information from all unified action partners, including access to national capabilities, as well as non-intelligence information, larger volumes of information and intelligence, and specialized analysis by unified action partners
What is the most important part of the intelligence enterprise?
The most important element of the intelligence enterprise is the people that make it work
What does the effectiveness of the intelligence warfighting function hinge on?
The Effectiveness of the intelligence warfighting function hinges directly on access to the intelligence community through the intelligence enterprise
Explain how to command, intelligence, and operations are mutually supportive
The commander drives intelligence, intelligence facilitates operations, and operations are supportive of intelligence; this relationship is continuous
What are the seven intelligence disciplines?
- Counterintelligence
- Geo-spatial intelligence
- human intelligence
- measurement and signature intelligence
- open - source intelligence
- signals intelligence
- technical intelligence
What are the 6 characteristics of effective intelligence
- accuracy
- timeliness
- usability
- completeness
- precision
- reliability
What is ADP / ADRP 3-0
Unified Land Operations
What is an operational environment?
An operational environment is a composite of the conditions, circumstances, and influences the effect the employment of capabilities and bear on the decisions of the commander
How does ADRP 3-0 define a threat?
A threat is any combination of actors, entities, or forces that have the capability and intent to harm the United States forces, United States national interest, or the homeland
What are the troop leading procedures (TLPs) and who uses them?
Troop leading procedures are a dynamic process used by small unit leaders to analyze a mission, develop a plan, and prepare for an operation. they are typically used by organizations without staff
What are decisive, shaping, and sustaining operations?
Decisive operation-the operation that directly accomplishes the mission
Shaping operation-an operation that establishes conditions for the decisive
Sustaining operation-an operation at any echelon that enables the decisive operation or shaping operation by generating and maintaining combat power
How does ADRP 3-0 define rules of engagement
Rules of engagement are directives issued by competent military authority that delineate the circumstances and limitations under which the United States forces will initiated and/or continue combat engagement with other forces encountered
What are the three elements of decisive action in missions conducted outside the United States
- Offense
- Defense
- Stability
What are the eight elements of combat power?
- Leadership
- Information
- Mission control
- Movement and Maneuver
- intelligence
- Fires
- Sustainment
- Protection
How does ADRP 3-0 define “task organizing”
Task organizing is the act of designing an operating force, support staff, or sustainment package of specific size and composition to meet a unique task or mission
What is a line of operation
A line of operation is a line that defines the directional orientation of a force in time and space in relation to the enemy and that links the force with its base of operations and objectives
What is ADP/ADRP 3-05
Special Operations
What are the Army special operations domctornially and operationally linked to?
ADP / ADRP 3-0, Unified Land Operations
ADP / ADRP 3-07
Stability
Who is the principal audience for ADP / ADRP 3-07
Middle and senior leadership of the Army, officers in the rank of major and above. It also applies to the civilian leaderships of the Army
What are the end state conditions for stability in operations?
- a safe and secure environment
- established rule of law
- social well-being
- stable governance
- a sustainable economy
What is meant by minimum essential stability task? Who is generally responsible for them?
These services provide for the minimal level of security, food, water, shelter, and medical treatment. Generally, the host nation government is responsible for these task
What is the district stability framework and what is it used for?
The District Stability Framework is a matrix that combines socio-cultural and operational factors it helps to identify sources of instability in an area of operations
What are the four factors of legitimacy and host-nation ownership
- mandate
- manner
- consent
- expectations
How does ADRP 3-07 define the term “fragile state”
ADRP 3-07 defines a fragile state as a country that suffers from institutional weakness serious enough to threaten the stability of the central government
How’s does ADRP 3-07 define peace Operations?
Peace operations aim to keep violence from spreading, contain violence that has occurred and reduce tension among factions
What are the five types of peace Operations?
- Peacekeeping
- Peace enforcement
- Peacemaking
- Peace building
- Conflict prevention
In addition to fundamentals of planning describe in ADP 5-0, when planning for stability commanders and staff must what?
- Recognize complexity
- Balance resources, capabilities, and activities
- Recognizing planning horizons
- Avoid planning pitfalls
ADP / ADRP 3-09
Fires
What are the task included in the fires warfighting function
- deliver fires
- integrate all forms of army joint and multinational fires
- conduct targeting
What is the role of fires
The role of fires is to enable Army forces to seize and retain in initiative, prevent and deter conflict, defeat adaptive threats and succeed in a wide range of contingencies
Who is a joint fires observer
A joint fires observer is a trained and certified service member who can request, adjust, and control surface to surface fires, provide targeting information in support of type two and three close air support terminal attack controls, and perform autonomous terminal guidance operations. The JFO is not additional soldier and his army for support organization, but rather an individual who has received the necessary training and certification to receive the JFOs additional skill identifier
What is the mission of the air Defense artillery
The mission of the Air Defense Artillery is to provide fires to protect the forces and selected geopolitical assets from aerial attack, missile attack, and surveillance
What is the mission of the field artillery
The mission of the field artillery is to destroy, defeat, or disrupt the enemy with an integrated fires to enable maneuver commanders to dominate in unified land operations
ADRP define deliberate and dynamic targets as what?
- deliberate targeting prosecutes planned targets
- dynamic targeting prosecutes targets of opportunity and changes to planned targets or objectives
Army targeting uses what functions to complement the planning, preparing, executing, and assessing stages of the operations process
Decide, detect, deliver, and assess as methodology
How does ADP 3–09 define targeting
The process of selecting and prioritizing target and matching the appropriate response to them, considering operational requirements and capabilities
What is the priority of fires
The priority of fires is the commander’s guidance to his staff, subordinate commanders, fires planners, and supporting agencies to employ fires in accordance with the relative importance of the units mission
What is a restricted target
A restricted target is a valid target that has specific restriction placed on the actions authorized against it due to operational considerations
ADP / ADRP 3-28
Defense support of civil authorities
What are the four primary characteristics of Army support
- State and federal laws define how military forces support civil authorities
- civil authorities are in charge, and military forces support them
- military forces depart when civil authorities are able to continue without military support
- military forces must document cost of all direct and indirect support provided
5 principles of patrolling
- planning
- security
- recon
- control
- common sense
3 contour lines
Intermediate
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