The Operations Process, ADP 5-0 Flashcards
During the conduct of unified land operations, Army forces support the joint force through what four strategic roles?
Shape operational environments, prevent conflict, prevail in large scale ground combat, consolidate gains
What are the principles of mission command?
Competence, shared understanding, mutual trust, mission orders, commanders intent, disciplined initiative and risk acceptance.
What is the commanders role in the operations process?
To drive the operations process through the activities of understanding, visualizing, describing, directing, leading and assessing operations.
How does the staff assist the commander throughout the operations process?
With understanding situations, making and implementing decisions, controlling operations and assessing progress.
What are the principles of the operations process?
Drive the operations process, build and maintain situational understanding, apply critical and creative thinking.
What is intelligence preparation of the battlefield? (IPB)
The systematic process of analyzing the mission variables of enemy, terrain, weather and civilian considerations in an area of interest to determine their effect on operations.
What is the importance of IPB?
IPB helps identify options available to friendly and threat forces.
What is information collection?
An activity that integrates the planning and employment of sensors and assets as well as processing, exploitation, and dissemination systems.
What is operational art?
The cognitive approach by commanders and staffs - supported by their skill, knowledge, experience, creativity and judgement.
The distance and duration across which a force can successfully employ military capabilities is known as what?
Operational reach
What are the 7 steps of the military decision making process? MDMP
Receipt of Mission Mission Analysis Course of action (COA) Development COA Analysis COA Comparison COA Approval Orders Production, Dissemination, and Transition
What are troop leading procedures? TLPs
- Receive the mission
- Issue a WARNO
- Make a tentative plan
- Initiate movement
- Conduct reconnaissance
- Complete the plan
- Issue the order
- Supervise and refine
What is something units do to improve performance during execution?
Rehearsals
What is the difference between accepting risk and gambling?
Gambling is imprudently staking the success of an entire action on a single, improbable event.
Accepting risk is carefully determining the risks, analyzing and minimizing as many hazards as possible.
