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Army is built upon an ethos of trust. What are four other essential characteristics of our profession?

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Military expertise, honorable service, esprit de corps, and stewardship.

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In which domains do U.S. forces operate?

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Air, land, maritime, space, and cyberspace domains.

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11 Primary Missions of the U.S. Armed Forces?

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  • Counter terrorism and irregular warfare.
  • Deter and defeat aggression.
  • Counter weapons of mass destruction.
  • Operate in cyberspace
  • Operate effectively in space.
  • Provide a stabilizing presence.
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Title 10, USC, establishes the basic structure of the Army. What Forces make up the Army?

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Regular Army
Reserves
National guard
Army civilians

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What is the function of the Operating Force?

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units organized, trained, and equipped to deploy and fight.

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What is the function of the Generating Force?

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mans
trains, 
equips, 
deploys 
ensures the readiness of all Army forces.
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What five sets of characteristics will enhance the Army’s operational adaptability?

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  • Depth and Versatility.
  • Adaptive and Innovative.
  • Flexibility and Agility.
  • Integrated and Synchronized.
  • Lethal and Discriminate.
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Who is the principal audience for ADP 1-02, Operational Terms and Military Symbols?

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All members of the profession of arms.

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What are the three areas of focus of the professional language of land warfare?

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  • Principle of Simplicity.
  • Importance of clear communication.
  • Importance of teaching the language.
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framed and unframed. What is the difference?

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Framed-unit, equipment, installation, and activity symbols.

Unframed -control measure and tactical task mission symbols.

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That common operational picture is displayed on a map or another geographical form representing the area of operations and which has been overlaid with military symbols. What does it include?

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  • Friendly and enemy units or ships.
  • Boundaries.
  • Control measures.
  • Other elements that the commander deems necessary.
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Why does the Army synchronizes its intelligence efforts with unified action partners?

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To achieve unity of effort and to meet the commander’s intent.

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What is ISR?

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Intelligence
surveillance
reconnaissance.

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What are the information collection tasks?

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  • Plan requirements and assess collection.
  • Task and direct collection.
  • Execute collection.
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What are the intelligence core competencies?

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  • intelligence synchronization
  • intelligence operations
  • intelligence analysis.
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What are the 4 primary means for information collection?

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  • Intelligence operations.
  • Reconnaissance.
  • Surveillance.
  • Security operations.
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What is the purpose of intelligence analysis?

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To describe the current—and attempt to proactively assess—threats, terrain and weather, and civil considerations.

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What is the description of Unified land operations?

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  • seizes,
  • retains
  • exploits
  • gain and maintain a position of relative advantage
  • sustained land operations through simultaneous
  • offensive
  • defensive
  • stability operations
  • prevent or deter conflict
  • prevail in war
  • create the conditions for favorable conflict resolution.
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What are the operational variables?

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  • political,
  • military
  • economic
  • social,
  • information
  • infrastructure, physical environment, time (known as PMESII-PT).
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What are the mission variables?

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  • mission
  • enemy
  • terrain
  • weather,
  • troops
  • support available, time available, civil considerations (known as METT-TC).
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What is the is the Army’s warfighting doctrine?

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Unified land operations .

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What is a series of related major operations aimed at achieving strategic and operational objectives within a given time and space?

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A campaign.

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What is a military action, consisting of two of more related tactical actions, designed to achieve a strategic objective, in whole or in part?

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An operation.

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What is a battle or engagement, employing lethal or nonlethal actions, designed for a specific purpose relative to the enemy, the terrain, friendly forces, or other entity?

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A tactical action.

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How are Army operations characterized?

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  • flexibility,
  • integration
  • lethality
  • adapt ability
  • depth
  • synchronization
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What is MDMP?

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military decision-making process.

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What is the purpose of MDMP?

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  • develop
  • analyze
  • compare courses of action
  • decide on a course of action
  • produce an operation order
  • order for execution.