Basic Maneuver Doctrine Flashcards
What are the offensive tasks?
MAEP
- Movement to contact
- Attack
- Exploitation
- Pursuit
What are types of movement to contact?
- Search and attack
- Cordon and search
Types of attacks
ACDSF
- Ambush
- Counterattack
- Demonstration
- Spoiling attack
- Feint Raid
Forms of maneuver
- Envelopment
- Flank attack
- Frontal attack
- Infiltration
- Penetration
- Turning movement
Defensive tasks
AMR
- Area defense
- Mobile defense
- Retrograde operations
Define area defense
Deny enemy access to designated terrain for a specific time
Define mobile defense
Destroy enemy through fire and maneuver
Define retrograde operations
Executed to gain time, preserve forces, or avoid combat under undesirable conditions
Types of retrograde operations
DWR
- Delay
- Withdrawal
- Retirement
Forms of the defense
DPR
- Defense of a linear obstacle
- Perimeter defense
- Reverse slope defense
Define a defense of a linear obstacle
An area or a mobile defense along an existing obstacle such as a river or mountainous terrain
Define perimeter defense
Oriented in all directions e.g. combat outposts control of critical terrain, or if a force is not tied in with adjacent units
Define reverse slope defense
Topographical feature used to mask the defending force from enemy observation and direct fire
What are the defensive shaping operations
- Countermobility and mobility operations
- Reconnaissance and security operations
- Aerial-delivered and long-range precision indirect fires
- Passage of line (forward and rearward)
- Action of fixing forces that shape to support the decisive operation
- Movements of units that directly facilitate other shaping operations and the decisive operation
- Actions by reserve forces before their commitment
What are the reasons to transition to offensive tasks
- If defense is successful, transition to the offense
- If defense is unsuccessful transition to retrograde operations
- Contingency planning for transition:
- Establishes the required organization of forces
- Decreased the time needed to adjust the tempo
What are the characteristics of the offense?
SCAT
- Audacity
- Concentration
- Surprise
- Tempo / Rapid Tempo
What are the combat formations?
- Column
- Line
- Echelon (left or right)
- Box
- Diamond
- Wedge
- Vee
What are the forms of contact (8)?
- Visual
- Direct
- Indirect
- Non-hostile
- Obstacles
- Aircraft
- CBRN
- EW
What are the characteristics of the defense?
PMS-DF-MCO
- Disruption
- Flexibility
- Maneuver
- Mass
- Concentration
- Operations in Depth
- Preparation
- Security
What are the battle positions?
- Primary
- Alternate
- Supplementary
- Subsequent
- Strong point
What are the tactical enabling tasks?
RRSSTPEU
- Reconnaissance
- Security
- Troop Movements
- Relief in Place
- Passage of Lines
- Encirclement Operations
- Urban Operations
- Security Operations
What are the mobility operation tasks?
BCGCF
- Breaching operations
- Clearing operations (areas and routes)
- Gap-crossing operations
- Combat roads and trails
- Forward airfields and landing
What are the types of RIP?
- Sequential
- Simultaneous
- Staggered
What are the types of reconnaissance?
- Route
- Zone
- Area
- Reconnaissance in force (RIF)
- Special
What are the types of troop movements?
- Administrative
- Approach March
- Road March
What are the types of security operations?
- Screen
- Guard
- Cover
- Area
- Local
What are the tactical mission tasks: Action by friendly forces?
- Attack by Fire
- Follow and assume
- Breach
- Follow and support
- Bypass
- Occupy
- Clear
- Reduce
- Control
- Secure
- Disengage
- Seize
- Exfiltrate
- Support-by-fire
- Counter-reconnaissance
- Retain
What are the tactical mission Tasks: Effects on Enemy Forces?
- Block
- Canalize
- Contain
- Defeat
- Destroy
- Disrupt
- Fix
- Interdict
- Isolate
- Neutralize
- Suppress
- Turn
What are the tactical mission tasks: Purposes?
- Allow
- Cause
- Create
- Deceive
- Deny
- Divert
- Enable
- Envelope
- Influence
- Open
- Prevent
- Protect
- Support
- Surprise
What are the fundamentals of Recon
- Ensure continuous recon
- Do not keep recon assets in reserve
- Orient on the recon objective
- report info rapidly and accurately
- Retain freedom of maneuver
- gain and maintain enemy contact
- Develop the situation rapidly
What are the basic tactical concepts
- operation
- operational framework
- piecemeal commitment
- reconstitution
- reserve
- rules of engagement
- tactical mobility
- uncommitted forces
- defeat in detail
- AO
- Combined arms
- concept of ops
- decisive engagement
- flanks
- maneuver
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What are the principles of protection
- comprehensive
- integrated
- layered
- redundant
- enduring
Principles of fires
- precision
- scalable
- synchronized
- responsive
- networked
What are the componets of physical security
- deterrence
- detection
- assessment
- delay
- response
What are the characteristics of fires?
APMAI
- All weather
- precision / near precision
- mass area fires
- air and space integration
- inherently joint
What are the supporting distance factors?
DEFTR
- terrain and mobility
- distance
- enemy capabilities
- friendly capabilities
- reaction time
What are the fundamentals of assured mobility?
PDPANP
- predict
- detect
- prevent
- avoid
- neutralize
- protect
What are the fundamental of gap crossing?
SEPTSOF
- surprise
- extensive
- preparation
- traffic control
- speed
- organization
- flexible planning
What are the aviation brigade missions?
RSMAAAC
- Recon
- secutiy
- MTC
- attack
- AASLT
- air mvmt
- C2 support
What are the AASLT planning phases
- ground tactical plan
- landing plan
- air movement plan
- loding plan
- staging plan
What are the operations reaches?
AFTB
- Army prepositions stocks
- force projection
- theater opening
- basing theater closing
What are the phases of gap crossing
AAASC
- Advance to the gap
- assault across the gap
- advance from the far side
- secure the bridgehead line
- continue the attack
What are the Recon management processes
- Cueing
- Mixing
- Redundancy
