Tactics Flashcards
Six tactical tenets
1 Achieving a decision 2 Gaining an advantage 3 Being faster 4 Adapting 5 Cooperating 6 Exploiting success and finishing
Define Tactics
The art and science of winning engagements and battles
What is the art of tactics?
How we creatively form and apply force in a given situation.
Involves: creation, positioning, and maneuver of combat power.
What is the science of tactics?
The technical application of combat power.
Includes mastering war fighting skills such as: marksmanship, gunnery, land nav, & close air support.
What are Tactics considered?
The art of the application of tactics
What are techniques and procedures considered?
The science of tactics
What are the 9 principles of war?
MOOSEMUSS
What is MOOSEMUSS?
1 Mass 2 Objective 3 Offensive 4 Security 5 Economy of Force 6 Maneuver 7 Unity of Command 8 Surprise 9 Simplicity
What is the concept of Mass?
Concentrating the effects of combat power at the decisive place and time to achieve decisive results.
What is the concept of Objective?
Directing every military operation towards a clearly defined, decisive, and attainable objective.
What is the concept of Offensive?
Continuously focused on seizing, retaining, and exploring the initiative.
What is the concept of security?
Never permitting the EN to acquire an unexpected advantage.
What is the concept of Economy of Force?
The allocation of minimal essential combat power to secondary efforts.
What is the concept of Maneuver?
To place the EN in a disadvantageous position through the flexibility application of combat power.
What is the concept of Unity of Command?
Unity of effort under one responsible commander. Practical application occurs through the use of the Commander’s Intent.
What is the concept of Surprise?
Strike the EN at a time or place in a manner for which he is unprepared. Catching him in a position too late to react.
What is the concept of Simplicity?
All variables being equal, the simplest plan is preferred.
Tactical tenets- How do we achieve a decision?
1 Understand the situation (METT-TC) 2 Analytical decision making 3 Intuitive decision making (pattern recognition) 4 Acting decisively 5 Shaping the battlefield 6 Designating a ME
Tactical Tenets- How do we Gain an Advantage?
1 Mass and technological maneuver
2 Time and spatial maneuver
3 Psychological maneuver
Tactical Tenets- How do we become faster?
Speed and Tempo
What are five ways to increase speed and tempo?
1 Simplicity
2 Decentralization afforded by unity of command
3 Experience and communication
4 Positioning leaders at points of friction
5 Maneuver in time
Tactical Tenets- Adapting
Anticipation, improvisation, and SOPs
Tactical Tenets- Cooperating
Centralized and decentralized controls, self-Discipline.
Tactical Tenets- Exploit Success and Finishing.
Consolidation, exploitation, and pursuit.
