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OP110 Fundamentals of the Operation Process + Part of O110 Doctrinal Foundations Pt.1 Flashcards

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Mission statement

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The task, together with the purpose, that clearly indicates the action to be taken and the reason therefore

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Commander’s intent

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A clear, concise statement of what the force must do and the conditions the force must establish with respect to the enemy, terrain, and civil considerations that represent the desired end state

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Concept of operations

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A statement that directs the manner in which subordinate units cooperate to accomplish the mission and establishes the sequence of actions the force will use to achieve the end-state

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Tasks to subordinate units

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A clearly defined and measureable activity accomplished by individuals and organizations - who, what (task), when, where, and why (purpose)

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Coordinating instructions

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CCIRs, fire support coordination and airspace coordinating measures, rules of engagement, risk mitigation measures, and the time or condition when the operation order becomes effective

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Control measures

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A means of regulating forces or warfighting functions by assigning responsibilities, coordinate actions between forces, impose restrictions, or establish guidelines to regulate freedom of action

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3 components/characteristics of the nature of operations

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  1. They are human endeavors
  2. They are dynamic and uncertain
  3. They achieve a political purpose
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Mission command definition (Army’s philosophy of command and control)

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The approach to command and control that empowers subordinate decision making and decentralized execution appropriate to the situation.

-Mission command supports the Army’s operational concept of Unified Land Operations and its emphasis on seizing, retaining, and exploiting the initiative

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What is ADP 6-0

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Mission Command: Command and Control of Army Forces Field Manual

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What is the Army’s framework for organizing and putting command and control into action called? **

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Operations Process

-used to understand the operational environment, visualize and describe the operation’s end state, make and articulate decisions, and direct, lead, and assess operations**

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Major command and control activities performed during operations:

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1) Planning
2) Preparing
3) Executing
4) Continuously assessing the operations

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3 principles of the operations process

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1) Commanders drive the operations process
2) Build and maintain situational understanding
3) Apply critical and creative thinking

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Study figure 1-2 (Commander’s Role in the Operations Process)

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Soldiers and organizations lead through purpose, direction, and motivation and assess progress through continuous monitoring and evaluation.

Requires:

1) UNDERSTANDING the operational environment and problem
2) VISUALIZING the desired end state and operational approach
3) DESCRIBING the commander’s visualization in time, space, purpose, and resources
4) DIRECTING forces and warfighting functions throughout prep and execution

  • Supported by running estimates
  • Leads to mission accomplishment
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What does the Operational Environment encompass?

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Air, land, maritime, space, and cyberspace domains; the information environment and the electromagnetic spectrum

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What helps commander’s develop an initial understanding of their OEs? (3)

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Planning, intelligence preparation of the battlefield (IPB), and running estimates

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What does it mean to take an operational approach?

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CO’s conceptualize an operational approach to attain the end state based on their understanding of the current situation, mission, and desired end state

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Study ADP 5-0 Figure 1-3

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Current situation —> Operational Approach —> End State (desired future conditions)

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ODIN =

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Operational Data Integration Network

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What happens in the “DESCRIBE” step of the operations process?**

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  • CO’s describe their vision to their staff to facilitate shared understanding and purpose**
  • Give intent, planning guidance, critical information requirements, and essential elements of friendly information
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What happens in the “DIRECT” step of the operations process?

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CO’s make decisions and direct action based on their situational understanding maintained by continuous assessment. Includes:

  • approving plans/orders
  • est. command and support relationships
  • assign tasks, control measures, and task organization
  • positioning units to maximize combat power
  • positioning key leaders at critical places and times
  • allocating resources
  • committing the reserve
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What happens in the “LEAD” step of the operations process?

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CO’s provide purpose, direction, and motivation to subordinate commanders, their staff and Soldiers

-physical presence needed

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: A

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Army

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: MEF

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Marine expeditionary force

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: DIV

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Division

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: AAD

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Air Assault Division

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: ABD

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Airborne division

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: CD

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Cavalry division

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: ID

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Infantry division

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: MARD

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Marine division

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: MD

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Mechanized division

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: MND

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Multinational division

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: BDE

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Brigade

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: AAB

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Air Assault Brigade

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: ABB

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Airborne brigade

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: BCT

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Brigade combat team

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: FB

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Fires brigade

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: MEB

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Marine expeditionary brigade

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: MNB

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Multinational brigade

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: SAB

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Separate armor brigade

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: SIB

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Separate infantry brigade

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: REGT

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Regiment

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: ABR

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Airborne regiment

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: MEU

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Marine expeditionary unit

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: GP

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Group

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: BN

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Battalion

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: CO

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CO

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: PLT

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Platoon

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Abbreviations/acronyms for use with boundaries: TM

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Team

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Three types of boundary lines

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  • lateral
  • rear
  • forward
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What is an area?

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A control measure symbol that has multiple sets of coordinates that start and finish at the same point

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PL

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Phase line

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HL

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Handover line

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FEBA

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Forward line of troops (FEBA)

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SP

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Start point

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RP

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Release point

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PP

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Passage point

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CKP

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Checkpoint

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Double headed arrow means:

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Main attack

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Single-headed arrow means

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Supporting attack

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RL

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Release line

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PLD

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Probable line of deployment

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LD

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Line of departure

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LOA

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Limit of advance

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FCL

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Final coordination line

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RFL

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Restrictive fire line

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FSCL

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Fire support coordination line

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CFL

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Coordinated fire line

68
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B

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Biological

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C

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Chemical

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N

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Nuclear

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R

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Radiological

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A specific activity performed by a unit while executing a form of tactical operation or form of maneuver; may be expressed as either an action by a friendly force or an effect on an enemy force

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Tactical mission task

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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

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Operational environment

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Analysis of the OE that provides the relevant information that senior commanders require to frame operational problems

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PMESII-PT (political, military, economic, social, information, infrastructure, phys environment, time)

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A tool that enables Army leaders to synthesize operational information and local knowledge relevant to their missions and tasks in a specified AO

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METT-TC: mission, enemy, terrain and weather, troops support available, time available, civil considerations

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Simultaneous execution of offense, defense, stability, and DSCA across multiple domains to shape OEs, prevent conflict, prevail in large-scale ground combat, and consolidate gains as part of unified action

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Unified Land Operations

-executed through decisive action (tasks), guided by mission command (philosophy)

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

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Consolidation of gains

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Decisive action

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The continuous, simultaneous combinations of offensive, defensive, and stability or DSCA

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Tasks conducted to defeat and destroy enemy forces and seize terrain, resources, and population centers

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Offensive tasks

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Tasks conducted to defeat an enemy attack, gain time, economize forces, and develop conditions favorable for offensive and stability tasks

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Defensive tasks

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Military missions, tasks, and activities conducted outside the US to maintain or reestablish a safe and secure environment and to provide essential governmental services, emergency infrastructure reconstruction, and humanitarian relief

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Stability task

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The Army’s approach to command and control that empowers subordinate decision making and decentralized execution appropriate to the situation

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Mission command

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Tenets of operations

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Flexibility
Simultaneity
Depth
Synchronization

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The employment of a versatile mix of capabilities, formations, and equipment for conducting ops

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Flexibility

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Simultaneity

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The execution of related and mutually supporting tasks at the same time across multiple locations and domains

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Synchronization

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The arrangement of military actions in time, space, and purpose to produce maximum relative combat power at a decisive place and time

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Depth

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The extension of ops in time, space, or purpose to achieve definitive results

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Operations principles (6)

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  1. Mission command
  2. Develop the situation through action
  3. Combined arms
  4. Adhere to Law of War
  5. Establish and maintain security
  6. Create multiple dilemmas for the enemy
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The cognitive approach by commanders and staffs supported by their skill, knowledge, experience, creativity, and judgment to develop strategies, campaigns, and operations to organize and employ military forces by integrating ends, ways, and means. How COs balance risk and opportunity

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Operational art

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Elements of operational art

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  • end state and conditions
  • centers of gravity
  • decisive points
  • lines of operations/effort
  • operational reach
  • basing
  • tempo
  • phasing and transitions
  • culmination
  • risk
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Desired future conditions the CO wants to exist when an operation ends

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End state and condition

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Source of power that provides moral and physical strength, freedom of action, or will to act

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Centers of gravity

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Points that help COs select clear, conclusive, attainable objectives that directly contribute to achieving the end state

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Decisive points

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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 ops and objectives

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Line of operations

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Distance and duration across which a joint force can successfully employ military capabilities. A function of intelligence, protection, sustainment, endurance, and relative combat power

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Operational reach

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Basing

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Something that supports the military ops of a unit and provides the necessary support and services for sustained ops

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Tempo

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Relative speed and rhythm of military ops over time w/ respect to the enemy

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

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Phase

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

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Transition

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A point in time and space at which a force no longer possesses the capability to continue its current form of operations

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Culminating point

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The Army’s common construct for Unified Land Operations

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Operations Structure

-allows leaders to organize effort rapidly and effectively in a manner commonly understood across the Army

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A commander-led activity, consisting of the major mission command activities performed during operations: planning, preparing, executing, and continually assessing the operation

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Operations process

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The art and science of understanding a situation, envisioning a desired future, and laying out effective ways of bringing about that future

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Planning

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Army leaders employ 3 methodologies for planning after determining the appropriate mix based on the scope of the problem, their familiarity with it, and the time available:

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1) army design methodology
2) MDMP
3) troop leading procedures

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A dynamic process used by small-unit leaders and typically not employed in organizations with staffs

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Troop leading procedures

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activities that units perform to improve their ability to execute an operation

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Preparing

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the act of putting a plan into action by applying combat power to accomplish the mission and using situational understanding to assess progress and make execution and adjustment decisions

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Executing

108
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Continuously monitoring and evaluating the current situation and the progress of an operation

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Assessing

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3 main types of operational framework

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1) deep/close/support
2) decisive/shaping/sustaining
3) main effort/supporting efforts

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area of operations

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

111
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operations that directly accomplish the mission

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decisive operations

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ops that establish conditions for the decisive operation through effects on the enemy, other actors, and the terrain

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shaping operations

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operations that enable the decisive operation or shaping operation by generating and maintaining combat power

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sustaining operations

114
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the designated subordinate unit whose mission at a given point in time is most critical to overall mission success

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main effort

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designated subordinate units with missions that support the success of the main effort

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supporting efforts

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combat power

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the total means of destructive, constructive, and information capabilities that a military unit or formation can apply at a given time

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8 elements of combat power

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  1. leadership
  2. information
  3. mission command
  4. movement and maneuver
  5. intelligence
  6. fires
  7. sustainment
  8. protection
118
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the science of tactics includes:

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  • the physical capabilities of friendly and enemy organizations and systems
  • techniques and procedures used to accomplish specific tasks
  • techniques and procedures for employing the various elements of the combined arms team to create or produce greater effects
119
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Tactical fundamentals

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  • gain and maintain contact
  • disrupt
  • fix
  • maneuver
  • follow through
120
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cuber electromagnetic activities in operations

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  • build, operate, and defend the network
  • attack and exploit enemy systems
  • gain situational understanding
  • protect individuals and platforms
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purpose of information operations

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create effects in and through the information environment that provide commanders decisive advantage over enemies and adversaries

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