Perform Effectively In An Operational Environment Flashcards
The strategic environment is?
The set of global conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the employment of all elements of US national power.
The operational environment is?
consists of all the conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect military operations.
An OE can be a country, a region, a town…
This definition applies to an OE for a specific operation, at any level of command
8 Operational Variables are?
-Political
-Military
-Economic
-Social
-Information
-Infrastructure
-Physical Environment
-Time
Politial Variable Looks at?
Power
-Whose in charge?
Military Variable Looks at?
-Military Capabilities
Economic Variable Looks at?
-looks at the haves and have nots.
-economic gaps
Social Variable Looks at?
Ethic groups/cultural/religious groups
Information Variable Looks at?
Groups that generate information for the masses.
Infrastructure Variable Looks at?
Infrastructure including tech.
Physical Environment Variable Looks at?
air, land, sea, space
Time Variable Looks at?
Driving factor on decisions
TRADOC Pamphlet 525-92, The Operational Environment and the Changing Character of Warfare list four trends of the complex operational environments that are likely to impact land force operations in the future are?
-significant advances in science and technology
-where new discoveries and innovations are occurring at a breakneck pace
-a dizzying pace of human interaction
-world = connected through social media.
Multidomain warfare includes but is not limited to the physical areas of:
Land
Maritime
Space
Cyberspace
Culture is?
Shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts members of a society use to cope with the world and each other.
Culture conditions are?
an individual’s range of action and ideas, including what to do and not do, how to do or not do it, and with whom to do it or not do it.
Culture influences are?
How people make judgments about what is right and wrong, assess what is important and unimportant, categorize things, and deal with things that do not fit into existing categories
Socio-cultural aspects of the land domain are?
Large Scale Combat Operations (LSCO) are still a human endeavor that will affect a civilian populous and other friendly, adversary, and neutral actors.
air domain has socio-cultural aspects when it?
Combines with the land domain, especially in regards to targeting and air defenses.
-A bombing approach that focuses on destroying an opponent’s ability and will to wage war, air forces will target the will and ability of a society, and not just its military, to fight.
Socio-cultural aspects of the maritime domain include?
Human activities on (and under) the water such as fishing, supply, transportation, and coastal defense, as well as when the maritime domain combines with the land domain in the case of littoral/coastal, lacustrine and riverine operational environments.
Governments and almost all societies rely on cyberspace for portions of some to all of their functions, spanning the breadth of the operational variables. What happens when this is affected?
The effects of cyber disruptions or intrusions into these functions can range form annoying (such as internet or communications outages) to catastrophic (e.g., virtual bank theft, destruction of critical infrastructure, computer system viruses, etc.). When cyber activity is focused on functions that are emotionally meaningful or logically important to a particular society
Private Security Organizations (PSOs) are?
Business enterprises or local ad hoc groups that provide the following contractual services
What is a Noncombatant?
an individual, in an area of combat operations, who is not armed and is not participating in any activity in support of any of the factions or forces involved in combat
A Hybrid Threat is?
The diverse and dynamic combinations of two or more regular and/or irregular forces (either conventional or unconventional), or criminal elements that are distinctly different in nature, but unified in purpose or effect.
