Tactics

Question 0

Six tactical tenets

Answer 0

1 Achieving a decision 
2 Gaining an advantage
3 Being faster 
4 Adapting
5 Cooperating
6 Exploiting success and finishing

Question 1

Define Tactics

Answer 1

The art and science of winning engagements and battles

Question 2

What is the art of tactics?

Answer 2

How we creatively form and apply force in a given situation.

Involves: creation, positioning, and maneuver of combat power.

Question 3

What is the science of tactics?

Answer 3

The technical application of combat power.

Includes mastering war fighting skills such as: marksmanship, gunnery, land nav, & close air support.

Question 4

What are Tactics considered?

Answer 4

The art of the application of tactics

Question 5

What are techniques and procedures considered?

Answer 5

The science of tactics

Question 6

What are the 9 principles of war?

Answer 6

MOOSEMUSS

Question 7

What is MOOSEMUSS?

Answer 7

1 Mass
2 Objective
3 Offensive
4 Security
5 Economy of Force
6 Maneuver
7 Unity of Command
8 Surprise
9 Simplicity

Question 8

What is the concept of Mass?

Answer 8

Concentrating the effects of combat power at the decisive place and time to achieve decisive results.

Question 9

What is the concept of Objective?

Answer 9

Directing every military operation towards a clearly defined, decisive, and attainable objective.

Question 10

What is the concept of Offensive?

Answer 10

Continuously focused on seizing, retaining, and exploring the initiative.

Question 11

What is the concept of security?

Answer 11

Never permitting the EN to acquire an unexpected advantage.

Question 12

What is the concept of Economy of Force?

Answer 12

The allocation of minimal essential combat power to secondary efforts.

Question 13

What is the concept of Maneuver?

Answer 13

To place the EN in a disadvantageous position through the flexibility application of combat power.

Question 14

What is the concept of Unity of Command?

Answer 14

Unity of effort under one responsible commander. Practical application occurs through the use of the Commander’s Intent.

Question 15

What is the concept of Surprise?

Answer 15

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.

Question 16

What is the concept of Simplicity?

Answer 16

All variables being equal, the simplest plan is preferred.

Question 17

Tactical tenets- How do we achieve a decision?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Tactical Tenets- How do we Gain an Advantage?

Answer 18

1 Mass and technological maneuver
2 Time and spatial maneuver
3 Psychological maneuver

Question 19

Tactical Tenets- How do we become faster?

Answer 19

Speed and Tempo

Question 20

What are five ways to increase speed and tempo?

Answer 20

1 Simplicity
2 Decentralization afforded by unity of command
3 Experience and communication
4 Positioning leaders at points of friction
5 Maneuver in time

Question 21

Tactical Tenets- Adapting

Answer 21

Anticipation, improvisation, and SOPs

Question 22

Tactical Tenets- Cooperating

Answer 22

Centralized and decentralized controls, self-Discipline.

Question 23

Tactical Tenets- Exploit Success and Finishing.

Answer 23

Consolidation, exploitation, and pursuit.