C300 - Test #1 Flashcards
What are the Seven Joint Functions
Acronym: Fires Can’t Miss PIIS
- Command and Control (C2)
- Information
- Movement and Maneuver (M2)
- Intelligence
- Fires
- Sustainment
- Protection
Joint Functions: What is C2?
The exercise of authority and direction by a commander over assigned and attached forces to accomplish the mission. Command includes both the authority and responsibility to use resources to accomplish assigned missions. Control is inherent in command. To control is to manage and direct forces and functions consistent with a commander’s command authority. Control provides the means for commanders to maintain freedom of action, delegate authority, direct operations from any location, and integrate and synchronize actions throughout the operational area (OA).
Joint Functions: What is Information?
The information function encompasses the management and application of information and its deliberate integration with other joint functions to change or maintain perceptions, attitudes, and other elements that drive desired behaviors and to support human and automated decision making. The information function helps commanders and staffs understand and leverage the pervasive nature of information, its military uses, and its application during all military operations. This function provides JFCs the ability to integrate the generation and preservation of friendly information while leveraging the inherent informational aspects of military activities to achieve the commander’s objectives and attain the end state. (JP 3-0)
Joint Functions: What is Intelligence?
Understanding the Operational Environment (OE) is fundamental to joint operations. Intel supports this function with analysis of the OE to inform Joint Force Commanders (JFCs) about adversary capabilities, centers of gravity, vulnerabilities, and future courses of action. It is result of analysis of information gathered from data collection by Joint entities. (Slides)
Joint Functions: What is Fires?
- Joint fires are those delivered during the employment of forces from two or more components in coordinated action to produce desired results in support of a common objective
- To employ fires is to use available weapons and other systems to create a specific effect on a target. Joint fires are those delivered during the employment of forces from two or more components in coordinated action to produce desired results in support of a common objective. (JP 3-0)
Joint Functions: What is Movement and Maneuver (M2)
- Maneuver is the employment of forces in the OA through movement in combination with fires and information to gain a position of advantage in respect to the enemy.
- This function encompasses the disposition of joint forces to conduct operations by securing positional advantages before or during combat operations and by exploiting tactical success to achieve operational and strategic objectives. Maneuver is the employment of forces in the OA through movement in combination with fires to achieve a position of advantage in respect to the enemy
Joint Functions: What is Protection?
The protection function encompasses force protection, force health protection (FHP), and other protection activities. The function focuses on force protection, which preserves the joint force’s fighting potential in four primary ways (active defense, passive defense, application of technology and procedures to reduce the risk of friendly fire incidents, and emergency management and response). FHP complements force protection efforts by promoting, improving, preserving, or restoring the mental or physical well-being of Service members. As the JFC’s mission requires, the protection function also extends beyond force protection to encompass protection of US noncombatants
Joint Functions: What is Sustainment?
Sustainment is the provision of logistics and personnel services to maintain operations through mission accomplishment and redeployment of the force. Sustainment provides the JFC the means to enable freedom of action and endurance and to extend operational reach. Sustainment determines the depth to which the joint force can conduct decisive operations, allowing the JFC to seize, retain, and exploit the initiative. (JP 3-0)
What are the Tenets of Multinational Operations?
PT-MKRR
- Respect
- Rapport
- Knowledge of Partners
- Patience
- Mission Focus
- Trust & Confidence
Multinational Tenets: Respect
All partners must be included in the planning process and their opinions sought in mission assignment.
Multinational Tenets: Rapport
- Personal and direct relationships foster teamwork and improve overall unity of effort.
Multinational Tenets: Knowledge of Partners
- Obtain an understanding of each member’s doctrine, capabilities, goals, culture, religion, history and values.
Multinational Tenets: Patience
Relationships take time to develop.
Multinational Tenets: Mission Focus
Temper the need for respect, rapport, knowledge, and patience with the requirement to ensure that the necessary tasks are accomplished.
Multinational Tenets: Trust & Confidence
MN Force Commanders (MNFC) must engage with other MN force leaders to build personal relationships and develop trust and confidence
What is the Universal Task List (UJTL)?
The Universal Joint Task List (UJTL) is a menu of tasks in a common language, which serves as the foundation for joint operations planning across the range of military and interagency operations. The UJTL supports DOD to conduct joint force development, readiness reporting, experimentation, joint training and education, and lessons learned. It is the basic language in developing joint mission essential task lists (JMETL) and agency mission essential task lists (AMETL).
What is the role of the UN Secretariat?
- To help carry out the decisions made by the different organs of the United Nations
- To organize international conferences
- To translate speeches and distribute documents into the UN’s official languages
- To keep the public informed about the work of the United Nations.
What is the role of the UN Security Council?
To help carry out the decisions made by the different organs of the United Nations; To organize international conferences; To translate speeches and distribute documents into the UN’s official languages; To keep the public informed about the work of the United Nations.
- Maintain international peace and security
- Investigate dispute/situation that may lead to international conflict
- Recommend methods of adjusting disputes/terms of settlement
- Determine existence of threat to peace or acts of aggression
- Call for applying economic sanctions and other measures
- Take military action against an aggressor
What is the role of the UN General Assembl?
- Assembly is to discuss, debate, and make recommendations on subjects pertaining to international peace and security, including development, disarmament, human rights, international law, and the peaceful arbitration of disputes
What is the role of the Department of Peace Keeping OPS (DPKO)
- DPKO provides political and executive direction to UN peacekeeping operations, maintains contact with UN Security Council, troop and financial contributors, and parties to the conflict.
- Integrates efforts of UN, governmental and non-governmental organizations in peacekeeping operations.
- Provides guidance and support on military, police, mine action, and relevant issues to UN political and peacebuilding missions.
What are the functions/roles of the military departments & services IAW DOD Dirctive 5300.1?
What are the Principle of Joint Operations?
M2 O2 S3
- Objective
- Offensive
- Mass
- Maneuver
- Economy of Force
- Unity of Command
- Security
- Surprise
- Simplicity
- Restraint
- Perserverance
- Legitimacy
Principles of Joint OPS: Mass
- The purpose of mass is to concentrate the effects of combat power at the most advantageous place and time to produce decisive results.
- To achieve mass, appropriate joint force capabilities are integrated and synchronized where they will have a decisive effect in a short period of time. Mass must often be sustained to have the desired effect. Massing effects of combat power, rather than concentrating forces, can enable even numerically inferior forces to produce decisive results and minimize human losses and waste of resources.
Principles of Joint OPS: Maneuver
- The purpose of maneuver is to place the enemy in a position of disadvantage through the flexible application of combat power.
- Maneuver is the movement of forces in relation to the enemy to secure or retain positional advantage, usually to deliver—or threaten delivery of—the direct and indirect fires of the maneuvering force. Effective maneuver keeps the enemy off balance and thus also protects the friendly force. It contributes materially in exploiting successes, preserving freedom of action, and reducing vulnerability by continually posing new problems for the enemy.
Principles of Joint OPS: Economy of Force
- The purpose of economy of force is to expend minimum essential combat power on secondary efforts to allocate the maximum possible combat power on primary efforts.
- Economy of force is the judicious employment and distribution of forces. It is the measured allocation of available combat power to such tasks as limited attacks, defense, delays, deception, or even retrograde operations to achieve mass elsewhere at the decisive point and time.
Principles of Joint OPS: Unity of CMD
- The purpose of unity of command is to ensure unity of effort under one responsible commander for every objective.
- Unity of command means all forces operate under a single commander with the requisite authority to direct all forces employed in pursuit of a common purpose. Unity of command may not be possible during coordination and operations with multinational and interagency partners, but the requirement for unity of effort is paramount. Unity of effort—the coordination and cooperation toward common objectives, even if the Principles of Joint Operations A-3 participants are not necessarily part of the same command or organization—is the product of successful unified action.
Principles of Joint OPS: Security
- The purpose of security is to prevent the enemy from acquiring unexpected advantage.
- Security enhances freedom of action by reducing friendly vulnerability to hostile acts, influence, or surprise. Security results from the measures taken by commanders to protect their forces, the population, or other critical priorities. Staff planning and an understanding of enemy strategy, tactics, and doctrine enhance security. Risk is inherent in military operations. Application of this principle includes prudent risk management, not undue caution.
Principles of Joint OPS: Surprise
- The purpose of surprise is to strike at a time or place or in a manner for which the enemy is unprepared.
- Surprise can help the commander shift the balance of combat power and thus achieve success well out of proportion to the effort expended. Factors contributing to surprise include speed in decision making, information sharing, and force movement; effective intelligence; deception; application of unexpected combat power; OPSEC; and variations in tactics and methods of operation.