Unified Land Operations (ADP 3-0) Flashcards
What regulation covers Operations?
ADP 3-0
What does ADP 3-0 cover?
Operations
What are the operational variables?
PMESII-PT
Political, Military, Economic, Social, Information, Infrastructure, Physical environment, Time
What are the mission variables?
METT-TC
Mission, Enemy, Terrain and weather, Troops and support, Time, Civil considerations
What is the Army’s warfighting doctrine?
Unified Land Operations
What is a campaign?
Series of related major operations aimed at achieving strategic and operational objectives within a given time and space.
What is an operation?
A military action, consisting of two or more related tactical actions, designed to achieve a strategic objective, in whole or in part.
What is a tactical action?
A battle or engagement, employing lethal or nonlethal actions, designed for a specific purpose relative to the enemy, terrain, or friendly forces.
What is unified action?
The synchronization, coordination, and integration of the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities with military operations to achieve unity of effort.
What are the Army’s four strategic roles?
Shape operational environments, Prevent conflict, Prevail in large-scale ground combat, Consolidate gains.
What are unified land operations?
The simultaneous execution of offense, defense, stability, and defense support of civil authorities across multiple domains to achieve the Army’s strategic roles.
What is MDMP?
Military Decision-Making Process
What is operational art?
The pursuit of strategic objectives through the arrangement of tactical actions in time, space, and purpose.
What is the operational environment?
A composite of conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the employment of capabilities and bear on the decisions of the commander.
How are Army operations characterized?
F-DIALS. Flexibility, integration, lethality, adaptability, depth, and synchronization.
What are two planning processes used in the Army?
MDMP Military decision making process, and TLPs Troop leading procedures.
What are the two most challenging potential enemy threats to the US?
Nonstate entities, and nuclear-capable nation-states.
What is decisive action?
The continuous, simultaneous execution of offensive, defensive, and stability operations or defense support of civil authority tasks.
What is mission command?
Command and control that empowers subordinate decision making and decentralized execution appropriate to the situation.
What are the fundamental principles of Mission Command?
Competence, Trust, Shared understanding, Commander’s intent, Mission orders, Disciplined initiative, Risk acceptance
What is combined arms?
Synchronized and simultaneous application of arms to achieve an effect greater than if each element was used separately or sequentially.
What is combat power?
The total means of destructive, constructive, and information capabilities that a military unit or formation can apply at a given time.
What are the two Army Core Competencies?
Combined arms maneuver and wide area security
What is wide area security?
Application of combat power to protect populations, forces, infrastructure, and activities; to deny the enemy positions of advantage; to retain the initiative by consolidating gains.
What is the foundation of Unified Land Operations?
Mission command, initiative, and decisive action
What are the Troop Leading Procedures?
RIMICCIS. Receive mission, issue warning order, make tentative plan, initiate movement, conduct recon, complete the plan, issue order, supervise, refine.
What are the tenets of good operations?
Simultaneity, depth, synchronization, flexibility
What is the Army’s operational concept?
Unified land operations
What are the foundations of unified land operations?
Decisive action and mission command
What are the principles of Army operations?
Mission command, Develop the situation through action, combined arms, adherence to law of war, establish and maintain security, create multiple dilemmas for the enemy.
From the enemy’s point of view, what must US operations be?
Rapid, unpredictable, disorienting
What is the central idea of Unified Land Operations?
To seize, retain, and exploit the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage
What are the founding principles of Unified Land Operations?
Adaptability, Lethality, Flexibility
What three provisions support the Operations Structure?
A broad process for conducting operations (Operations Process), Basic options for visualizing and describing operations (Operational Framework), Intellectual organization for common critical tasks (Combat Power)
The specific operational environment of Army Forces is defined by what two characters?
The character of the friendly force, and the character of the threat
What are the Mission Variables of the Operational Environment and what is the acronym used to remember them?
Mission, Enemy, Terrain and Weather, Troops and Support Available, Time Available, Civil Considerations
The acronym is METT-TC
True or False: No two operational environments are identical, even within the same theatre of operations.
True
Effective Unified Action requires Army Leaders who can operate with their Unified Action Partners in what three ways?
Influence, Cooperate, Understand
True or False: The Army depends on its joint partners for capabilities with unified action partners.
True
Why are interorganizational efforts required Unified Actions?
To build the capacity of partners, To secure populations, To protect infrastructure, To strengthen institutions as a means of protecting common security interests
What is Operational Initiative?
The setting of tempo and terms of action throughout an operation
What are the 12 Principles of Joint Operations?
Objective, Offensive, Mass, Maneuver, Economy of force, Unity of command, Security, Surprise, Simplicity, Restraint, Perseverance, Legitimacy
What are the six Warfighting Functions?
Command and Control, Movement and Maneuver, Intelligence, Fires, Sustainment, Protection
True or False: Operational art is not associated with a specific echelon or formation, nor is it exclusive to theatre and joint force commanders.
True
Planning is the art and science of understanding a situation, envisioning a desired future, and laying out effective ways of bringing about the future. What are two separate but interrelated components?
A conceptual component and a detailed component
Describe Troop Leading Procedures.
A dynamic process used by small-unit leaders to analyze a mission, develop a plan, and prepare for an operation typically employed by organizations without staffs at the company level and below
True or False: Decisive Operations lead directly to the accomplishment of a commander’s purpose.
True
Describe Shaping Operations?
Operations that create and preserve conditions for success of the decisive operation
