C400

Question 1

5 OFFENSIVE TASKS

Answer 1

Find (Gain & Maintain the enemy)
Disrupt
Fix
Maneuver 
Follow through

Question 2

Mission Variables 
(defines situation)

Answer 2

Mission
Enemy
Terrain & weather
Troops & support avail
-
Time
Civil considerations

Question 3

4 Characteristics of Offensive Tasks

Answer 3

Surprise
Concentration
Audacity
Tempo

Question 4

4 offensive tasks

Answer 4

Movement to Contact
Attack
Exploitation
Pursuit

Question 5

7 Forms of the attack

Answer 5

Ambush
Counterattack
Raid
Demonstration
Feint
Spoiling Attack
Raid

Question 6

6 Forms of Maneuver

Answer 6

Envelopment
Turning Movement
Frontal Attach
Penetration
Infiltration
Flank Attack

Question 7

Give examples of control measures

Answer 7

phase lines
contact points
objectives
limits of advance
fire coordination measures

Question 8

what are the 3 phases of penetration

Answer 8

Breach enemy’s defensive positions
Widen the gap (for penetration of flanks)
Seize the objective

Question 9

7 types of combat formations

Answer 9

column
line
box
echelon R
echelon L
diamond
vee

Question 10

3 mvmt techniques of combat formations

Answer 10

traveling
traveling overwatch
bounding overwatch

Question 11

4 security operations

Answer 11

Screen
Guard
Cover
Local Area

Question 12

5 phases of RAID

Answer 12

1-infiltrate
2-seal off OBJ
3-overcome enemy (violently)
4-seize OBJ
5-withdraw

Question 13

Why do we conduct Defensive OPS?

Answer 13

Regain the initiative
Deter or defeat enemy attack
Gain time
Economize forces
Retain decisive terrain or deny a vital area to the enemy.
Protect the populace, critical assets and infrastructure.

Question 14

7 Characteristics of Defense

Answer 14

disruption 
flexibility 
maneuver 
massing effects 
operations in depth
preparation 
security

Question 15

5 DEFENSIVE Battle positions

Answer 15

primary
alternate
supplementary
subsequent 
strong point

Question 16

3 Defensive Tasks

Answer 16

Area
Mobile
Retrograde

Question 17

3 forms of defense

Answer 17

defense of a linear obstacle
perimeter
reverse slope

Question 18

Retrograde tasks (defensive)

Answer 18

Delay
Withdraw
Retire

Question 19

5 screening criteria questions.

Is it:

Answer 19

Suitable
Feasible
Acceptable
Distinguishable
Complete

Question 20

7 Characteristics of DEFENSE

Answer 20

Disruption
Flexibility
Maneuver
Mass & Concentration
Operations in Depth
Preparation
Security

Question 21

7 Factors in Defensive Operations

Answer 21

• Prepare terrain in depth.
• Conceal friendly combat power.
• Protect civilians and civil infrastructure.
• Counterattack using surprise, speed, and shock.
• Disrupt the enemy attack in depth with combined arms
and joint capabilities.
• Mass combat power against the enemy’s main strength.
• Maintain an agile and flexible reserve.

Question 22

Shaping Operations in the DEFENSE

Answer 22

• Countermobility and mobility operations
• Reconnaissance and security operations
• Aerial-delivered and long-range precision indirect fires
• Passage of lines (forward and rearward)
• Actions 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

Question 23

3 Security OPS in the DEFENSE

Answer 23

Screen
Guard
Cover

Question 24

5 Medical Sustainment Considerations in DEFENSE

Answer 24

1. Evacuation Routes & Landing Zones
2. Integration of FSTs and other specialty teams
3. Patient Regulation
4. Bio waste disposal
5. Emergency CL VIII & Blood resupply

Question 25

Medical Challenges to DEFENSE

Answer 25

• Reliance on ground casualty evacuation
assets throughout the breadth and depth of
the AO
• Balancing distance from likely point of injury
and the threat from enemy weapon systems
when positioning medical assets
• Support to units conducting security and
counter-attack operations
• Evacuating (clearing) patients from patient
hold as unit transitions to offensive operations