Unified Land Operations

Question 1

Doctrine

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A common professional language. (Tells us how)

Question 2

Army Doctrine Publications (ADP)

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Detailed Information on Fundamentals

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Army Doctrine Publications (ADP) are published

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armypubs.army.mil

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Field Manuals

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Tactics and Procedures

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ULO is

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The simultaneous execution of offense, defense, stability, and defense support of civil authorities across multiple domains to shape operational environments, prevent conflict, prevail in large-scale ground combat, and consolidate gains as part of unified action.

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Principles of Unified Land Operations

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Mission Command

Develop the situation through action

Combined Arms

Adhere to the Law of War

Establish and Maintain Security

Create Multiple Dilemmas for the Enemy

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Mission Command

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The exercise of authority and direction by the commander using mission orders to enable disciplined initiative within the commander’s intent to empower agile and adaptive leaders in the conduct of unified land operations

Question 8

Develop the Situation through Action

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Commanders fight for information to develop the situation while in contact with the enemy and gain information through close association with the population.

Question 9

Combined Arms

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The synchronized and simultaneous application of all elements of combat power that together achieve an effect greater than if each element was used separately or sequentially.

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Adhere to Law of War

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The law of war is that part of international law that regulates the conduct of armed hostilities

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Establish and Maintain Security

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Army forces conduct area security to ensure freedom of movement and action and deny the enemy the ability to disrupt operations.

Question 12

Create Multiple Dilemmas for the Enemy

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Army forces present the enemy with multiple dilemmas because they possess the simultaneity to overwhelm the enemy physically and psychologically, the depth to prevent enemy forces from recovering, and the endurance to sustain operations.

Question 13

Decisive Action

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the continuous, simultaneous combinations of offensive, defensive, and stability or defense support of civil authorities tasks (DSCA)*

Question 14

Commanders blank, blank, and blank the initiative to achieve decisive results

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seize, retain, and exploit the initiative

Question 15

Outside the United States and its territories simultaneously combine three elements

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Offense, Defense, and Stability.

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Within the United States and its territories

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operations combine Offense, Defense, and Defense Support of Civil Authority (DSCA).

Question 17

Elements of Decisive Action

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Offense, Defense, Stability, Defense Support of Civil Authorities

Question 18

Offense

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Offensive operations are combat operations conducted to defeat and destroy enemy forces and seize terrain, resources, and population centers. They impose the commander’s will on the enemy. In combat operations, the offense is the decisive element of decisive actions.

Question 19

Four operations of the offense are

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movement to contact, attack, exploitation, and pursuit.

Question 20

Characteristics of the offense include

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audacity, concentration, surprise, and tempo

Question 21

Defense

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Defensive operations are combat operations conducted to defeat an enemy attack, gain time, economize forces, and develop conditions favorable for offensive or stability operations.

Question 22

There are three primary defensive operations

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area defense, mobile defense, and retrograde

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Characteristics of the defense include

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disruption, flexibility, maneuver, mass and concentration, operations in depth, preparation, and security

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Stability

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Stability tasks are conducted to maintain or reestablish a safe and secure environment and provide essential governmental services, emergency infrastructure reconstruction and humanitarian relief.

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Defense Support of Civil Authorities Tasks

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Provide support for domestic disasters

Provide support for domestic CBRN incidents

Provide support for domestic civilian law enforcement agencies

Provide other designated domestic support

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Combat Power =

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Warfighting Functions + Leadership + Information

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Warfighting Functions

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Command and Control, Movement and Maneuver, Intelligence, Fires, Sustainment, and Protection

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Levels of War

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Strategic, Operational, and Tactical

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Strategic

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Develops sets of ideas of the ways to employ the instruments of national power in a synchronized and integrated fashion to achieve national, multinational, and theater objectives.

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Operational

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Links the tactical employment of forces to national strategic objectives

Question 31

Tactical

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The employment, ordered arrangement, and directed actions of forces in relation to each other.

Question 32

Combatant Command (Command Authority (COCOM)

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COCOM is the nontransferable command authority*

Question 33

Operational Control (OPCON)

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OPCON is the command authority that may be exercised by commanders at any echelon at or below the level of CCMD and may be delegated within the command.

It does not include authoritative direction for logistics or matters of administration, discipline, internal organization, or unit training.

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Tactical Control (TACON)

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An authority over assigned or attached forces or commands, or military capability or forces made available for tasking.

TACON does not provide organizational authority or authoritative direction for administrative and logistic support.

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Organic

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Those assigned to and forming an essential part of a military organization. These assignments are based on tables of organization and equipment (TO&E) or tables of distribution and allowances (TDA).

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Attached

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The placement of units or personnel in an organization where such placement is relatively temporary

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Assigned

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To place units or personnel in an organization where such placement is relatively permanent, and/or where such organization controls and administers the units or personnel for the primary function, or greater portion of the functions, of the unit or personnel.

Question 38

Three types of Brigade Combat Teams (BCT)

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Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT)

Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT)

Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT)

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Multifunctional Brigades (MB)

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Provide a variety of functions in support of BCT operations

Question 40

Area of operations (AO)

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An area of operations is an operational area defined by the joint force commander for land and maritime forces that should be large enough to accomplish their missions and protect their forces.

The AO(s) may be contiguous or noncontiguous

Question 41

Area of influence

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The geographical area wherein a commander is directly capable of influencing operations by maneuver and fire support systems.

Question 42

Area of interest

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The area of concern to the commander, including the area of influence, areas adjacent thereto, and extending into enemy territory. This area also includes areas occupied by enemy forces who could jeopardize the accomplishment of the mission.

Question 43

Army leaders are responsible for clearly articulating their concept of operations in time, space, purpose, and resources. While not bound by any specific framework, three have proven valuable:

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Deep - Close - Support (used to describe the operation in time and space).

Decisive - Shaping - Sustaining (used to articulate the operation in terms of purpose).

Main Effort- Supporting Efforts (used to designate the shifting prioritization of resources).

Question 44

The BLANK-BLANK-BLANK framework has historically been associated with a terrain orientation but can be applied to temporal and organizational orientations as well.

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deep-close-support

Question 45

Deep Area

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A deep area is the portion of the commander’s area of operations that is not assigned to subordinate units.

Question 46

Close Area

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The close area is the portion of a commander’s area of operations assigned to subordinate maneuver forces.

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Support Area

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The support area is the portion of the commander’s area of operations that is designated to facilitate the positioning, employment, and protection of base sustainment assets required to sustain, enable, and control operations.

Question 48

Decisive operations the operation that directly accomplishes

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the mission.

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Shaping operations are the operations that establish conditions for the decisive operation through

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effects on the enemy, other actors, and the terrain

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Sustaining operations enable the decisive operation or shaping operation by

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generating and maintaining combat power.

Question 51

The main effort is the designated subordinate unit whose mission at a given point in time is most critical to overall mission success.

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It is usually weighted with the preponderance of combat power.

Typically, the main effort shifts one or more times during execution.

Question 52

Supporting efforts are designated subordinate units with missions that support

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the success of the main effort.