Unified Land Operations Flashcards
Define Unified Action
Central idea: synchronize, coordinate, and /or integration of the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities with military operations to achieve unity of effort
Define ULO
seizes, retains, and exploits the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage through simultaneous offensive, defensive, and stability operations to prevent or deter conflict, prevail in war, and create the conditions for favorable conflict resolution
List parts of Decisive Action
- Offense
- Defense
- Stability
- DSCA
Army Core Competencies
- Combined Arms Maneuver
- Wide area security
Mission Command Fundamentals
ABC-PEU
- Build cohesive team through trust
- Create shared understanding
- Provide clear CDRs intent
- Exercise disciplined initiative
- Use mission orders
- Accept prudent risk
Warfighting Functions
- Mission Command
- Movement and Maneuver
- Intelligence
- Fires
- Sustainment
- Protection
Define Operation Structure
- Provide a broad process for conducting operations
- Provide basic options for visualizing and describing operations
- Provide intellectual organization for common critical tasks
Define the Operations Process
- Plan
- Army Design Methodology
- MDMP
- TLP
- Prepare, Execute, Assess
Define the Operational Framework
- Decisive-Shaping-Sustaining
- Deep-Close-Security
- Main and Supporting Efforts
Elements of Operational Design
- Termination
- Military end state
- Objective
- Effects
- Center of gravity
- Decisive point
- Lines of operations and lines of effort
- Direct and indirect approach
- Anticipation
- Operational reach
- Culmination
- Arranging operations
- Force and functions
Principles of Joint Operations
- Objective
- Offensive
- Mass
- Maneuver
- Economy of Force
- Unity of Command
- Security
- Surprise
- Simplicity
- Restraint
- Perseverance
- Legitimacy
Elements of Operational Art
- End state and conditions
- Center of gravity
- Decisive points
- Lines of operations and lines of effort
- Operational reach
- Basing
- Tempo
- Phasing and transitions
- Culmination
- Risk
Tenets of Unified Land Operations
- Flexibility
- Integration
- Lethality
- Adaptability
- Depth
- Synchronization
What are the defeat Mechanisms
- Destroy
- Dislocate
- Disintegrate
- Isolate
Targeting Process
D3A
- Decide
- Detect
- Deliver
- Assess
F3EAD
- Find,
- Fix
- Finish
- Exploit
- Analyze
- Disseminate
Operational Variables
PMESII-PT Political Military Economic Social Information Infrastructure Physical environment
Mission Variables
METT-TC Mission Enemy Terrain and Weather Troop – Time Available Civilian Considerations
ASCOPE
Area Structure Capabilities Organizations People Events
SWEAT-MSOU
- Sewer
- Water
- Electricity
- Academics
- Trash – Medical
- Security
- Other Consideration
- Unemployment
TACPF
Tactical Conflict Assessment Planning Framework
Terrain Analysis
OAKOC Obstacles Avenues of Approach Key Terrain Observation / Fields of fire Cover / Concealment
Steps to IPB
- Define the operational environment. 2. Describe the effects of the operational environment. 3. valuate the threat. 4. Determine threat courses of action.
Framing construct overall feeds what?
The commander’s understanding
Army Planning Methodologies
-Lead -Understand -Visualize -Describe -Direct -Assess
Army Design Methodology
Critical and Creative Thinking Collaboration and Dialogue Framing Narrative Construction Visual modeling
Troop Leading Procedures
Step 1 – Receive the mission. Step 2 – Issue a warning order. Step 3 – Make a tentative plan. Step 4 – Initiate movement. Step 5 – Conduct reconnaissance. Step 6 – Complete the plan. Step 7 – Issue the order. Step 8 – Supervise and refine the plan
Mission Command Systems
Personnel Networks Information Systems Processes and Procedures Facilities and Equipment
Elements of Combat Power
WFF + Leadership & Information Mission Command Movement & Maneuver Intelligence Fires Sustainment Protection Leadership Information
Elements of Decisive Action
Characteristics of the Offense Combat Formations Offensive forms of maneuver Forms of the attack Primary offensive tasks
