M300 Flashcards
Relief in place, link-up operations, and passage of lines are examples of?
Retrograde operations
Enabling operations
Defensive operations
Consolidation of gains
Enabling operations
Which of the following is a stationary unit’s responsibility during a passage of lines?
Designate contact points between units involved
Exercise overall command and control of the passage
Conduct reconnaissance from current location to designated contact points
Establish security area/battle handover line
Establish security area/battle handover line
What obstacle control measure do corps and division commanders assign based on defined enemy avenues of approach and aligned with subordinate brigade areas of operations?
Obstacle groups
Obstacle numbers
Obstacle restricted areas
Obstacle zones
obstacle zones
Describe the process the division staff uses to mitigate hazards that may potentially affect the outcome of the division’s operations?
Hazard identification, hazard analysis, criticality analysis, vulnerability analysis and establish protection priorities
Identify the hazards, assess the hazards, develop controls, and make risk decisions, implement controls, and supervise and evaluate
Integrate risk management into all phases of missions and operation, make risk decisions at appropriate level, accept no unnecessary risk and apply risk management cyclically and continuously
Threat analysis, hazard analysis, criticality analysis, vulnerability analysis and protection priorities
Identify the hazards, assess the hazards, develop controls, and make risk decisions, implement controls, and supervise and evaluate
Which of the following best describes what the protection prioritization list (PPL) does to help the commander?
It helps Army commanders to identify or assess assets that require protection prioritization within their assigned areas
It helps the commander analyze the hazards in their area of operations and the necessary steps to mitigate the hazard
It helps the commander do threat assessment for their area of operation
It helps the joint force commander prioritize the assets by phase that are to receive air and missile defense (AMD) protection
It helps Army commanders to identify or assess assets that require protection prioritization within their assigned areas
What differentiates the protection warfighting function and associated tasks from defensive and specific security operations?
It requires the employment of the reserve
It does NOT occur in all four major command and control activities performed during the operations process
It is an enduring activity
It has definitive start and stop times
It is an enduring activity
What type of Army support relationship provides support to a force as a whole and reinforces another similar-type unit?
Reinforcing (R) support
General support-reinforcing support (GSR)
General support (GS)
Direct support (DS)
gsr
As a division sustainment planner, which of the following is a sustainment fundamental that defensive operations present?
Movement of Class II materials forward
Optimizing supply point distribution to eliminate throughput requirements
Plan and execute all six sustainment functions sequentially
Execution of defensive operations and simultaneously planning for future offensive operations
Execution of defensive operations and simultaneously planning for future offensive operations
Sustainment support for which defensive operation requires more fuel, provides less time for maintenance, and requires more complex casualty evacuation procedures?
Sustaining area defense operations
Sustaining mobile defense operations
Sustaining retrograde defense operations
Transitioning to retrograde defense operations
Sustaining mobile defense operations
What combined intelligence and operations activity is focused on acquiring information on the threat, terrain, and civil considerations to facilitate understanding and decision making?
Information collection
Joint targeting
Requirements development
Tasking and directing
Information collection
What information collection tasks help the commander align reconnaissance, surveillance, security, and intelligence assets to collect information on identified information gaps?
Collection, analysis, processing, and dissemination
Decide, detect, deliver, and assess
Identification, threat analysis, vulnerabilities analysis, and risk assessment
Collection management, direct information collection, execute collection
Collection management, direct information collection, execute collection
What coordinated staff effort led by the G2, in support of information collection, analyzes information requirements to make recommendations to the G3 on how best to collect those requirements?
ISR Integration
Collection management
Information management
Knowledge management
Collection management
The commander directed the systematic observation of an area to collect information on the threat and local population. What information collection mission or operation best aligns with this activity?
Counterintelligence
Human intelligence
Surveillance
Security operation
Surveillance
After determining initial information gaps during Information Collection planning, during which sub-task of mission analysis does the staff work with the collection management team to nominate information requirements as CCIRs and EEFIs.
Collection management
Review available assets
Develop the Initial IC Plan
Develop a course of action
Develop the Initial IC Plan
The intelligence warfighting function refines collected data into usable information that can be distributed for further analysis or given directly to commanders as combat information. What intelligence activity does this describe?
Intelligence operations
Intelligence synchronization
Information collection
Intelligence processing, exploitation, and dissemination (PED)
Intelligence processing, exploitation, and dissemination (PED)
During execution of an operation, you receive an information collection report that does not answer a PIR but you believe it may trigger a commanders decision based on your understanding of the commander’s intent. What is this an example of?
Essential element of friendly information
Decision point
Exceptional Information
Position of relative advantage
Exceptional Information
During which phase of the joint targeting cycle (JTC) should targeting measures of performance (MOPs) and measures of effectiveness (MOEs) be developed?
Capabilities analysis
Combat assessment
Commander’s decision and force assignment
Commander’s objectives, targeting guidance, and intent
Commander’s objectives, targeting guidance, and intent
Normally developed by the air component in coordination with other component liaisons, joint force commanders may retain or delegate the responsibility to a component for which of the following development responsibilities?
Joint integrated prioritized target list
Joint target list
Restricted target list
Target nomination list
Joint integrated prioritized target list
The Joint Forces Commander (JFC) directs their staff to collect, consolidate, and prioritize component target lists and synchronize the joint targeting process in preparation for the formal joint targeting coordination board. What entity should the commander form?
Joint fires element
Joint targeting working group.
Master air attack planners
Targeting effects team
Joint targeting working group.
Which of the following statements best aligns with the optimum placement of the fire support coordination line (FSCL)?
Eliminates the need to consider ground forces scheme of maneuver and the requirement for close coordination between ground, air, and maritime forces
Is a definitive delineation between close air support short of the line and air interdiction long of it
Should be far enough from the rear boundary to accommodate all surface-to-surface fires
Should consider the shift in the preponderance of lethal effects from the ground component to the air component
Should consider the shift in the preponderance of lethal effects from the ground component to the air component
If a division identifies a high payoff target short of the coordinated fire line (CFL), what must the division do to engage the target?
Coordinate ground clearance with the subordinate brigade assigned to the area of operations in which the target resides
Coordinate with the battlefield coordination detachment (BCD) for approval to engage the target where it resides
Engage the target with no coordination because the coordinated fire line (CFL) is a permissive fire support coordination measure
Validate that the joint terminal attack controller (JTAC) can observe the target that resides short of the coordinated fire line (CFL)
Coordinate ground clearance with the subordinate brigade assigned to the area of operations in which the target resides
Which of the following statements best aligns with the optimum placement of the fire support coordination line (FSCL)?
Eliminates the need to consider ground forces scheme of maneuver and the requirement for close coordination between ground, air, and maritime forces
Is a definitive delineation between close air support short of the line and air interdiction long of it
Should be far enough from the rear boundary to accommodate all surface-to-surface fires
Should consider the shift in the preponderance of lethal effects from the ground component to the air component
Should consider the shift in the preponderance of lethal effects from the ground component to the air component
Which of the following describe the Army’s methodology for targeting?
Decide, detect, deliver, assess
Determine, direct, deliver, exploit
Find, fix, finish, exploit, assess, disseminate
Guidance, development, employment, assessment
Decide, detect, deliver, assess
In planning guidance the division commander describes that finding and destroying enemy reconnaissance operating in the security zone was vital to the success of the division’s planned attack, which doctrinal term best describes their guidance?
Dynamic target
High payoff target
High value target
Target of opportunity
High payoff target
A commander directs the staff to include measures that offer the opportunity for responsive fires on high payoff targets, which of the following type of fire support coordination measure is the commander describing?
High payoff
Permissive
Prohibitive
Restrictive
Permissive
Part of an Army division current operations cell, which of the following could be used to coordinate, integrate, and control operations in division-assigned airspace and to co-locate decision making authorities from the land and air component to support the maneuver commander’s objectives and intent?
Air-naval gunfire liaison company (ANGLICO)
Direct air support center (DASC)
Fire support team (FIST)
Joint air ground integration center (JAGIC)
Joint air ground integration center (JAGIC)
Which statement best articulates the doctrinal definition of close air support (CAS)?
A battalion-level command that provides the commander with a liaison capability to plan, coordinate, and employ fires
Air action by aircraft against hostile targets that are in close proximity to friendly forces and that require detailed integration
The determination and assignment of the total expected air effort for tactical operations in support of the land component commander
The weapons clearance authority that is delegated to the joint terminal attack controller (JTAC) for the expenditure of any ordnance on the battlefield
Air action by aircraft against hostile targets that are in close proximity to friendly forces and that require detailed integration
Which theater air control system (TACS) element would the division commander rely on to provide command and control for air component missions within their division-assigned airspace?
Air support operations center (ASOC)
Battlefield coordination detachment (BCD)
Joint Air Operations Center (JAOC)
Tactical air control party (TACP)
Air support operations center (ASOC)
Part of an Army division current operations cell, which of the following could be used to coordinate, integrate, and control operations in division-assigned airspace and to co-locate decision making authorities from the land and air component to support the maneuver commander’s objectives and intent?
Air-naval gunfire liaison company (ANGLICO)
Direct air support center (DASC)
Fire support team (FIST)
Joint air ground integration center (JAGIC)
Joint air ground integration center (JAGIC)
In support of division offensive and defensive operations, and as part of its core competencies, a combat aviation brigade (CAB) must be able to do which of the following?
All answers are correct
Enable command and control in support of combined arms teams
Position personnel, supplies, and equipment
Provide accurate and timely information collection
All answers are correct
If required, a division or corps could leverage which of the following to orchestrate division-level counterfire operations, provide command and control of subordinate surface-to-surface firing units, and facilitate targeting in its deep fight?
Air and missile defense cell
Civil military operations center
Division main command post
Force field artillery headquarters
ffah
Which of the following at the brigade to corps echelon coordinates and synchronizes cyberspace and electronic warfare operations to ensure unity of effort in meeting the commander’s operational objectives?
Cyber electromagnetic activities (CEMA) section
Fires cell
G-6 (S-6) section
G-3/G-2 fusion section
Cyber electromagnetic activities (CEMA) section
