SNCOA Mission Flashcards

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Includes establishing and maintaining control of the skies over conflict areas, allowing U.S. forces to operate at the times and places of their choosing.

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Air and Space Superiority

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This Air Force core mission is completed by using manned and unmanned aircraft, space assets, and other technologies to provide policymakers and warfighters that data where and when it is needed

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Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance

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Requires access to reliable communication and information networks

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Command and Control

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This core mission reflects the idea that the Nation can project military power more rapidly, more flexibly, and with a lighter footprint than other military options

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Global Strike

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Carrying cargo and personnel around the world, enabling operations by all U.S. allied military services

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Rapid Global Mobility

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Freedom from attack and the freedom to attack

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Air and Space Superiority

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7
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Delivery on demand

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Rapid Global Mobility

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8
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Any target anytime

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Global Strike

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This has provided our nation with a decades-long asymmetric advantage. Joint force and coalition partners have come to expect this mission-essential capability that over 115,000 American’s Airman deliver daily

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Air Superiority

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Its mission includes a wide range of crisis response and escalation control options, such as providing close air support to troops at risk, interdicting enemy forces, inserting special operation forces, and targeting an adversary’s virtual centers

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Global Strike

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Airman employ the Air Force’s other four interdependent and enduring core missions by utilizing these robust adaptable and survivable systems

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Command and Control

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12
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Total flexibility

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Command and control

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13
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Based on American principles, a clear-eyed assessment of U.S. interest, and a determination to tackle the challenges we face

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National Security Strategy

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Use virtual and physical networks around the world to radicalized isolated individuals, exploit vulnerable populations, and inspire and direct plots

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Jihadist Terrorists

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Communication and financial networks, military and intelligent systems, weather monitoring, navigation, and more have components in the ________ domain

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Space

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Attacks that have the capability to harm large numbers of people and institutions with comparatively minimal investment and a troubling degree of deniability. These attacks can undermine faith and confidence in democratic institutions and the global economic system.

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Cyberspace

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The region, which stretches from the west coast of India to the western shore of the United States, represents the most populous and economically dynamic part of the world.

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Indo-Pacific

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The U.S. is bound to this region by our shared commitment to the principles of democracy, individual liberty, and the rule of law.

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Europe

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Over a quarter of the worlds population, a fifth of U.S. designated terrorist groups, several fast growing economies, and two nuclear-arms states.

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South and Central Asia

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Contains many of the worlds fastest growing economies, which represent potential new markets for U.S. goods and services.

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Africa

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Stable friendly and prosperous states in this region enhance our security and benefit our economy.

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Western Hemisphere

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At the lowest end of the spectrum lies the________ level of war, where individuals battle the engagement engagements are fat.

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Tactical

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23
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Which of the following best identifies the tactical level of war?

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Deals with HOW we fight

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24
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This section of the summary of the 2018 defense national defense strategy (NDS) describes the reemergence of long-term, strategic completion, are resilient, but weakening, post World War II international order, and the challenges of US military advantage.

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Strategic Environment

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The expression of the joint force adaption and innovation under global integration to implement the Nationla Defense Strategy (NDS)’s direction to build a more lethal force.

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Force Development and Force Design

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The _____ level of war lies between the strategic and tactical levels.

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Operational

27
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Provides guidance to joint force commanders (JFCs) and their subordinates to plan, execute, and assess joint military operations.

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Joint Publications 3-0

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The primary way the Department of Defense (DOD) employs two or more Services (from at least two Military Departments) operating in a single operation is through:

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Joint Operations

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_______ is built on war fighting philosophy and theory derived from experience.

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Joint Operations Doctrine

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US national leaders can use military capabilities in a wide variety of activities, tasks, missions, and operations that vary in purpose, scale, risk, and not combat intensity along the:

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Conflict Continuum

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Achieve and maintain unity of effort between joint force and inter-organizational participants.

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Common Operating Precept

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Encompasses more descriptive terms for geographic areas in which joint force forces conduct military operations.

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Physical Areas

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Comprises and aggregates numerous social, cultural, cognitive, technical, and physical attributes that act upon an impact knowledge, understanding, beliefs, world views, and, ultimately, actions of an individual, group, system, community, or organization.

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Information Environment

34
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Global domain within the information environment.

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Cyberspace

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Geographical area established by the president, sec DEF, or GCC for the conduct of major operations and campaigns involving combat.

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Theater of War

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An area of land, sea and air space defined by a GCC or subordinate unified commander in, in which a JFC conducts military operations to accomplish a specific mission.

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JOA

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An area of land, sea, and airspace to find by a JFC to the to the commander of SOF to conduct special operation activities.

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JSOA

38
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Are to prevent, theater, disrupt, or defeat irregular threats.

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Ends

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Our principally five activities or operations that are undertaken in sequence, in parallel, or in blended form to a corporate coherent campaign to address irregular threats.

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Ways

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Collaborative frameworks for the joint force to act with its partners to understand the problem and deaths, plan and execute activities and operations and assess and adapt continuously to achieve desired outcomes.

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Means

41
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Military, political, economic, and information related actions as well as civic actions to defeat an insurgency.

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Counterinsurgency

42
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Conducting join operations through these has certain advantages, which include clear and uncomplicated command lines. This arrangement is appropriate when stability, continue D, economy, ease of long range planning, and scope of operations dictate their organizations integrity.

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Service Components

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Counterterrorism (CT), unconventional warfare (UW), foreign internal defense (FID), counterinsurgency (COIN), and stability operations open parentheses SO) are print principally five activities or operations that are undertaken in sequence, in parallel, or in blended form in a coherent campaign to address irregular threats.

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Ways

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This statement best describes which of the following fundamental approach of irregular warfare in a joint environment this type of planning is completed in five phases based on JOPES guidance: initiation, concept development, plan development, plan review, and supporting plan development. This statement best describes which type of planning in the joint operations planning and execution system chips?

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Deliberate

45
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The integrated system used to plan and execute joint military operations.

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Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES)

46
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Set national policy industry strategic direction.

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National Command Authorities (NSA)

47
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Plans and conducts join operation plans.

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Joint Planning and Execution Community (JPEC)

48
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The competitive space that resides between peace and war.

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Grey Zone

49
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Sophisticated anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) capabilities, with extended range, increase speed, and enhance targeting precision.

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Highly Contested Environment

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The product resulting from the collection, processing, integration, evaluation, analysis, and interpretation of available information concerning foreign nations, hostile or potentially hostile forces or elements, or areas of actual or potential operations.

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Intelligence

51
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The systematic observation of aerospace, cyberspace, surface surface, or subsurface areas, places, persons, or things by visual, arual, electronic, photographic, or other means.

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Surveillance

52
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A mission undertaken to obtain by visual observation or other detection methods, information about the activities or resources of an enemy or adversary, or to secure data concerning the meteorological, hydrographic, or geographic characteristics of a particular area.

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Reconnaissance

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Operations conducted across multiple domains and contested spaces to overcome adversary’s (or enemy’s) strength by presenting them with a several operational and/or tactical dilemmas through the combined application.

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Joint All Domain Operations (JADO)

54
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Systems that focus on situational awareness, rapid decision-making, and the ability to direct forces across all domains.

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Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2)

55
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Seeks to have a military more capable than any other in the world by 2049, hegemony in the Asian Pacific region (and one that implicitly erodes U.S. presence), leading positions within international organizations, and a dominant position in the advanced technologies essential to military power.

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People’s Republic of China

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Acknowledges an increasingly complex global security environment, characterized by overt challenges to the free and open international order and the re-emergence of long-term, strategic competition between nations.

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National Defense Strategy (NDS)

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Describes how the Joint Force will be postured and employed to achieve its competition and wartime missions. Foundational capabilities include nuclear; cyber; space; C4ISR; strategic mobility, and the counter WMD proliferation.

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Global Operating Model

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Prioritizes maintaining the capacity and capabilities for major combat, while providing options for proactive and scalable employment of the joint force.

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Dynamic Force Employment

59
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The renewal of great power competitions has led to better conversations about whether and how to make structural modifications within DOD to more effectively align DOD‘s actions with those needed to counter Chinese and, secondarily, Russian military capabilities.

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Creation of the U.S. Space Force and elevation of the U.S. Cyber Command to its own combatant command

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MSgt White says, “The DOD intends to establish links across all war fighting areas with commanders and weapons systems, sharing data at a fast pace.” MSgt White’s comments best explain which action the DOD is taking to prepare for and participate in the great power competition?

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Installing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) sensors.

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MSgt Brown says “This strategy is intended to significantly increase the DOD‘s method for building and releasing new weapons.” MSgt Brown’s comments best explain which policy used to prepare for and participate in the great power competition?

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The Adaptive Acquisition Framework

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Draws upon all elements of national power and requires active U.S. leadership in space.

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National Security Space Strategy