Chapter 2 - Today's Army

Question 1

What is unified action?

Answer 1

The synchronization, coordination, and/or integration of the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities with military operations to achieve unity of effort.

Question 2

What is the Army’s #1 responsibility?

Answer 2

To win the nation’s wars by achieving the combatant commander’s operational objective when the Army is committed to any type of operation.

Question 3

What are the Army’s Core Competencies?

Answer 3

• Prompt & Sustained Land Combat
• Combined Arms Operations
• Special Operations
• Set and Sustain the theater for the joint force
• Integrate national, multinational, and joint power on land

Question 4

What is Unified Land Operations?

Answer 4

The simultaneous execution of offense, defense, stability, and defense support of civil authorities across multiple domains to shape operational environments, prevent conflict, prevail in large-scale combat operations, and consolidate gains as part of unified action.

Question 5

What is Mission Command?

Answer 5

• An approach that empowers subordinates and is necessary for success in complex and ambiguous environments. (Empowers subordinates to make decisions, act, and quickly adapt to changing circumstances).
• It requires leaders at the lowest practical echelon to seize, retain, and exploit the initiative by directing action under varying degrees of uncertainty.

Question 6

What is Mission Command based on?

Answer 6

• Mutual Trust

- Shared understanding of purpose among commanders, subordinates, and unified action partners.