Company Exam Flashcards
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What are the elements of decisive action?
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Offense
Defense
Stability
DSCA
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Define unified land operations
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Seizes, retains, and exploits the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage through simultaneous offensive, defensive, and stability operations to prevent or deter conflict, prevail in war, and create the conditions for favorable conflict resolution
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What are the Army’s core competencies?
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Combined Arms Maneuver
Wide Area Security
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What are the fundamentals of Mission command?
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Build cohesive teams through trust Create shared understanding Provide clear commanders intent Exercise disciplined initiative Use mission orders Except prudent risk
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What are the warfighting functions?
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Mission Command Movement and Maneuver Fires Intelligence Sustainment Protection
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What are the principles of joint operations?
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Mass Objective Offensive Security Economy of Force Maneuver Unity of Command Surprise Simplicity Restraint Perseverance Legitimate
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What are the tenants of unified land operations?
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Synchronization Adaptability Depth Flexibility Integration Lethality
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What are the operational variables of the environment?
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Political Military Economic Social Infrastructure Information Physical geography Time
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What are the mission variables on the environment?
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Mission Enemy Terrain and weather Troops Time available Civil considerations
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What are the civilian considerations?
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Areas Structures Capabilities Organizations People Events
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What are the variables of terrain?
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Obstacles Avenues of approach Key terrain Observation and fields of fire Cover and concealment
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What are the four steps to IPB?
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Define the operational environment
Describe the effects of the environment
Evaluate the threat
Determine threat courses of action
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What are the troop leading procedures?
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Receive the mission Issue the WARNO Make a tentative plan Start necessary movement Reconnoiter Complete the plan Issue the OPORD Supervise and refine
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What are the characteristics of the offense?
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Surprise
Concentration
Audacity
Tempo
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What are the combat formations?
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Column Line Echelon (left or right) Wedge Vee Diamond Box
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What are the forms of maneuver?
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Envelopment Flank attack Frontal attack Turning movement Penetration Infiltration
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What are the forms of contact?
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Visual Indirect Direct Obstacles CBRN Aircraft Non-hostile Electronic warfare
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What are the characteristics of the defense?
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Disruption Flexibility Security Preparation Operations in depth Maneuver Mass and concentration
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What are the forms of defense?
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Defense of a linear obstacle
Perimeter defense
Reverse slope defense
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What are the defensive tasks?
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Area defense
Mobile defense
Retrograde
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What are the types of retrograde?
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Delay
Withdrawal
Retirement
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What are the types of battle positions?
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Primary Alternate Subsequent Supplementary Strong point
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What are the types of reconnaissance?
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Zone Area Route Recon in Force Special Recon
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What are the types of security operations?
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Screen Guard Cover Area security Local security
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What are the steps to course of action development?
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Analyze relative combat power
Generate options
Array forces
Develop a broad concept
Assign responsibilities
Prepare the COA sketch/statement
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What are the fundamentals of urban operations?
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Perform focused information operations
Conduct close combat
Avoid the attrition approach
Control the essential
Minimize collateral damage
Separate combatants from noncombatants
Restore essential services
Preserve critical infrastructure
Understand the human dimension
Transition control
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What are the phases of a deliberate attack?
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Reconnoiter
Move
Isolate
Secure a foothold
Clear an urban area
C&R
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What are the breaching fundamentals?
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Suppress
Obscure
Secure
Reduce
Assault
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How do you organize for a breach?
Support, breach, and assault elements
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What are the steps to assault a strongpoint?
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Reconnoiter
Move
Isolate
Attack to seize a foothold
Exploit the penetration and clear the objective
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What are the types of isolation?
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Physical
Direct fire
Indirect fire
Observation
Combination
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What are the elements of an insurgency?
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Mass base
Guerrillas
Underground
Auxiliaries
Leadership
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What are the phases of an insurgency?
Latent and incipient
Guerrilla warfare
War of movement
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What are the objectives of an insurgent?
Overthrow the existing government
Expel outsiders or occupiers
Maintain a region where there is little or no government
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What are the strategies of an insurgency?
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Urban
Military-focused
Protracted popular war
Identity-focused
Conspiratorial
Composite/coalition
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What is targeting?
The process of selecting and prioritizing targets and matching the appropriate process considering operational requirements and capabilities
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What is decisive action?
Sustainable land operations through the simultaneous combination of offensive, defensive, and stability operations
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What is the sequence for offensive operations?
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Gain and maintain enemy contact
Disrupt the enemy
Fix the enemy
Maneuver
Follow through
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What are the four steps of actions on contact?
Deploy and report
Evaluate and develop the situation
Choose a COA
Execute the selected COA
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What is the overall purpose of defensive operations?
To defeat an enemy attack and gain the initiative for offensive operations
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What are the steps to engagement area development?
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ID EN AoA
ID EN SoM
Determine where to kill
Emplace obstacles
Place direct fire weapon systems
Plan IDF
Rehearse
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What are the elements of combat power?
Warfighting functions, leadership, and information
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What are centers of gravity?
Source of power that provides moral or physical strength, freedom of action, or will to act
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What are lines of effort?
A line that links multiple tasks using the logic of purpose rather than geographical reference to focus efforts towards establishing operational and strategic conditions
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What are lines of operation?
A line that defines the directional orientation of the force in time and space in relation to the enemy and that links the force with its base of operations and objectives
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What is the decisive point?
The geographic place or specific key event that when acted upon allows commanders to gain a marked advantage over an adversary
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What are the purposes of the offense?
- defeat destroy or neutralize the enemy force
- Secure decisive terrain
- deprive the enemy of resources
- gain information
- deceive and divert the enemy
- hold the enemy in position
- disrupt the enemy's attack
- set the conditions for future successful operations
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What are the purposes of the defense?
- create conditions for counteroffensive
- regain the initiative
- retain decisive terrain or deny to the enemy
- attrit or fix the enemy as a prelude to the offensive
- response to surprise action by the enemy
- increase the enemy's vulnerability
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What are the fundamentals of reconnaissance?
- ensure continuous recon
- do not keep recon assets in reserve
- orient on the recon objective
- Report information rapidly and accurately
- retain freedom of maneuver
- gain and maintain enemy contact
- develop the situation rapidly
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What are the techniques for recording wargaming?
Sketch note
| Sync matrix
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What are the methods for wargaming?
Belt
Box
Avenue in depth
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What are the elements of the commander's reconnaissance guidance?
Focus
Tempo
Engagement Criteria
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What are the different reconnaissance objectives?
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(TITS)
Threat
Infrastructure
Terrain
Society
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What are the steps of the risk management process?
- identify hazards
- assess hazards to determine risk
- develop controls and make risk decisions
- implement controls
- supervise and evaluate
