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O110 Doctrinal Foundations Flashcards

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ADP

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Army Doctrine Publications
16 of them
Detailed information on fundamentals
authoritative but requires judgment in application

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FM

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Field Manuals
64 of them
Tactics and Procedures
Main Body (max 200 pages)

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ATP

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Army Techniques Publications
259
Techniques
Non-prescriptive ways or methods used to perform missions, functions, or tasks

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ULO

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Unified Land Operations
The Army’s operational concept

Simultaneous execution of offense, defense, stability, and defense support of civil authorities across multiple domains to share operational environments, prevent conflict, prevail in large-scale ground combat, and consolidate gains as part of unified actions

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Aspects of the Operational Environment

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Human Context

Land Operations

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ULO is executed through

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Decisive Action (Tasks)

  • Offense
  • Defense
  • Stability
  • DSCA
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ULO is guided by

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Mission Command - Philosophy

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Operational Environment Definition

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a composite of the conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the employment of capabilities and bear on the decisions of the commander

NOT the Area of Operations

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Consolidate Gains

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Activities to make enduring any temporary operational success and to set the conditions for a sustainable security environment, allowing for a transition of control to other legitimate authorities

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Operations conducted outside the US

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Simultaneously combine:
Offense
Defense
Stability

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Operations conducted within the US

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Simultaneously combine:
Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA)
Offense
Defense

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Decisive Action

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The continuous, simultaneous combinations of offensive, defensive, stability/DSCA tasks

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Offensive Tasks

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Conducted to DEFEAT and DESTROY enemy forces and SEIZE terrain, resources, and population centers

Movement to Contact
Attack
Exploitation
Pursuit

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Defensive Tasks

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Conducted to DEFEAT an enemy attack, gain time, economize forces, and develop conditions favorable for offensive and stability tasks

Mobile Defense
Area Defense
Retrograde

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Stability Tasks

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Missions, tasks, and activities OUTSIDE the US to maintain or reestablish a safe and secure environment

Establish Civil Security
Establish Civil Control
Restore Essential Services
Support to Governance
Support to Economic/Infrastructure Development
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DSCA

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Homeland defense and defense support of civil authorities for DOMESTIC emergencies, law enforcement support.

Support for Domestic Disasters
Support for Domestic CBRNE Incidents
Support for Domestic Civilian Law Enforcement

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Mission Command

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The Army’s approach to command and control. Empowers subordinate decision making and decentralized execution.

Provide a clear commander’s intent and use mission orders to assign tasks, allocate resources, and issue broad guidance

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Tenets of Operations

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Flexibility
Simultaneity
Depth
Synchronization

ADP 3-0

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Principles of Operations

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Mission Command
Develop the Situation Through Action
Combined Arms
Adhere to Law of War
Establish and Maintain Security
Create Multiple Dilemmas for the Enemy
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Operational Art

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the cognitive approach to develop strategies, campaigns, and operations to organize and employ military forces by integrated ENDS, WAYS, and MEANS

NOT Associated with a specific echelon or formation
NOT Exclusive to theater and joint forces

HOW COMMANDERS BALANCE RISK AND OPPORTUNITY

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Elements of Operational Art

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  1. End state and conditions
  2. Center of gravity (COG)
  3. Decisive Points
  4. Lines of Operations/Effort
  5. Operational Reach
  6. Basing
  7. Tempo
  8. Phasing and Transitions
  9. Culmination
  10. Risk
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LOO

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Lines of Operation
a line that defines the directional orientation of a 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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LOE

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Line of Effort

a line that links multiple tasks using the logic of purpose

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COG

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Center of Gravity

The hub of all power and movement, on which everything depends

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Phase

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a planning and execution tool used to divide an operation in duration or activity

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Transitions

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Mark a change of focus between phases or between the ongoing operation and execution of a branch or sequel

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AO

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Area of Operations
An operational area defined by the joint force commander for land and maritime force that should be large enough to accomplish their missions and protect their forces

Contiguous or Noncontiguous

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Contiguous

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In reference to AO

Adjacent subordinate unit AOs share boundaries

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Nonctoniguous

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In reference to AO

Subordinate units receive distinct AOs.
Higher headquarters retains responsibility for the unassigned portion of the AO

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Area of Influence

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The geographical area wherein a commander is directly capable of influencing operations by maneuver and fire support systems.

Normally SURROUNDS and INCLUDES the AO

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Area of Interest

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The area of concern to the commander, including the area of influence, areas adjacent thereto, and extending into enemy territory.

Includes areas occupied by enemy who could jeopardize the accomplishment of the mission.

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Operational Framework

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Provides leaders with some basic conceptual options for arraying forces and visualizing and describing operations.

Deep - Close - Support
Decisive - Shaping - Sustaining
Main Effort - Support Effort

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Deep Area

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The portion of the commander’s area of operations that is not assigned to subordinate units

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Close Area

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The portion of the commander’s area of operations assigned to subordinate maneuver forces

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Support Area

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The portion of the commander’s area that is designated to facilitate the positioning, employment, and protection of base sustainment assets required to sustain, enable, and control operations

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Decisive Operations

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Directly accomplishes the mission

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Shaping Operations

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Establish conditions for decisive operations through effects on the enemy, other actors, and the terrain

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Sustaining Operations

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Enable to decisive operation or shaping operation by generating and maintaining combat power

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The Art of Tactics - Definition

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War has its own rules, not one is rigid and invariable.
Rests upon the complex factors of human nature.
No books can teach this.
No rules define it.

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the Operations Structure

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the Army’s common construct for ULO

Allows leaders to organize effort rapidly and effectively

  • Operations Process
  • Operational Framework
  • Element of Combat Power
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Operations Process

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Provides a broadly defined approach to developing and conducting operations

Plan, Prepare, Execute, Assess

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Elements of Combat Power

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Mission Command
Information
Leadership

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