Unified Land Operations

Question 0

Define Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures “TTP”

Answer 0

Tactics: is the employment of units in combat

Techniques: are the general and detailed methods used by troops and commanders to perform assigned missions and functions.

Procedures: are standard and detailed courses of action that describe how to perform tasks

Question 1

Define doctrine

Answer 1

Army doctrine is a body of thought on how army forces intend to operate as an integral part of a joint force.

-fundamentals by which army forces conduct operations

Question 2

Define tactics:

Answer 2

Tactics are the employment of units in combat.

It includes the ordered arrangement and manuever of units in relation to each other, the terrain and the enemy to translate potential combat power into victorious battles and engagements

Question 3

A tactician must understand and master the:

Answer 3

1. The science of tactics

2. The art of tactics

Question 4

The art of tactics consist of 3 interrelated aspects.

What are they?

Answer 4

1. The creative way to accomplish assigned missions.
2. Decision making under adverse conditions
3. Understanding the affects of combat on the soldier

Question 5

Science of tactics:

Answer 5

Encompasses the understanding of those military aspects of tactics-capabilities, techniques, and procedures that can be measured and codified.

Question 6

What is unified action?

Answer 6

Unified action is the synchronization, coordination, and/or integration of the activities of governmental and non governmental entities with military operations to achieve unity of effort.

Question 7

The unified action partners include….

Answer 7

1. Joint forces
2. Multi national forces
3. US government agencies

Question 8

What is the army’s role?

Answer 8

Unified land operations

Question 9

What is the unified land operations goal?

Answer 9

Apply land power as part of a unified action to defeat the enemy on land and establish conditions that achieve commanders end state

Question 10

What is the central idea of unified land operations?

Answer 10

The central idea of ULO is how the army seizes, retains, and exploits the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage, and create conditions favorable for conflict resolution

Question 11

What are the foundations of ULO?

Answer 11

1. Excited through DECISIVE ACTION
2. By means of ARMY CORE COMPETENCIES
3. Guided by MISSION COMMAND

Question 12

Unified land operations begin and end with the ______ and ________ initiative.

Answer 12

1. Individual and operational

Question 13

Decisive actions include what 4 operations:

1.
2.
3.
4.

Answer 13

1. Offense
2. Defense
3. Stability
4. Defense support of civil authorities “DSCA”

Question 14

Define offensive task

Answer 14

An offensive task is a task conducted to defeat and destroy enemy forces and seize terrain, resources, and population centers

Question 15

What are defensive tasks?

Answer 15

A defensive task is a task conducted to defeat an enemy attack, gain time, economize forces, and develop conditions favorable for offensive stability tasks

Question 16

Define stability tasks

Answer 16

Means encompassing various military missions, tasks, and activities conducted outside the United States in coordination with other national powers to maintain or provide a safe and secure environment, emergency infrastructure reconstruction and humanitarian relief

Question 17

Define defense support of civil authorities

Answer 17

DSCA is a task that only takes place in the homeland, although some of its tasks are similar to stability tasks.

It is also always conducted in support of another primary or lead federal agency

Question 18

Unified land operations is executed through ________ by means of _______ and guided by__________

Answer 18

1. Decisive action
2. Army core competencies
3. Mission command

Question 19

What are the operations structure tenets?

Answer 19

1. Flexibility
2. Integration
3. Lethality
   4 adaptability
4. Depth
5. Synchronization

Question 20

What is the operational art?

Answer 20

Linking tactical actions to strategic objectives

Question 21

What are the 3 things that make up the operations structure?

Answer 21

1. Operations process (plan)
2. Operational framework (decisive, shaping, sustaining)
3. War fighting functions

Question 22

Define combat power

Answer 22

Combat power is the total means of destructive, constructive, and information capabilities that a military unit can apply at a given time.

Army forces generate combat power by converting potential into effective action

Question 23

What are the 8 elements of combat power?

Answer 23

1. Leadership
2. Information
3. Movement and manuever
4. Intelligence
5. Fires
6. Sustainment
7. Mission command
8. Protection

Question 24

Commanders apply combat power through the war fighting functions using ________ and _______

Answer 24

Leadership and information

Question 25

Commanders apply leadership through __________

Answer 25

Mission command

Question 26

______ enables commanders at all levels to make informed decisions on how to apply combat power

Answer 26

Information

Question 27

Define mission command

Answer 27

Mission command encourages the greatest possible freedom of action from subordinates.

While the commander remains the central figure in mission command, it enables subordinates to develop the situation.

Question 28

Movement and manuever include the 8 following tasks:

Answer 28

1. Deploy
2. Move
3. Manuever
4. Employ direct fires
5. Occupy an area
6. Conduct mobility and counter mobility operations
7. Conduct recon and surveillance
8. Employ battlefield obscuration

Question 29

Define intelligence in warfighting functions

Answer 29

Means understanding threats, adversaries, and weather

Question 30

Define fires in warfighting functions

Answer 30

Army fire systems deliver fires in support of offensive and defensive tasks to create lethal/non lethal effects on target

Include the following tasks:
Deliver fires
Integrate all forms of join, army fires
Conduct targeting

Question 31

Define sustainment in warfighting functions

Answer 31

The endurance of army forces is primarily a function of their sustainment.

Includes the following tasks:
Conduct logistics
Provide personnel services
Provide health service support

Question 32

Define protection in warfighting functions

Answer 32

It enables the commander to maintain the forces integrity and combat power.

It also determines the degree to which potential threats can disrupt operations and the counters or reduces those threats