Unified land Operations ADRP 3-0 Flashcards
What is Unified Land Operations?
The Army’s basic Warfighting Doctrine and is the Army’s contribution to Unified Action and is an Intellectual outgrowth of both previous Operations Doctrine and Recent Combat Experience
What is The United States Army?
The United States Army is America’s sons and daughters, men and women of courage and character, and leaders of consequence - bonded together in a profession of arms - organized, trained, and equipped to be the most decisive land force in the world.
What is Army Doctrine?
Army Doctrine is a body of thought of how the Army operates as an integral part of a joint force.
What do Operational Variables PMESII-PT stand for?
political, military, economic, social, information, infrastructure, physical environment, and time.
What is the Operational Environment?
Conditions and circumstances that may affect the commanders abilities to make good decisions
What variables do Army Leaders use to plan, prepare, execute, and assess operations when analyzing the Operational Environment?
Operational and Mission Variables.
What do Mission Variables METT-TC consist of?
mission, enemy, terrain and weather, troops and support available, time available, and civil considerations.
What are the most likely security threats that Army Forces will encounter?
Hybrid threats
What are Hybrid Threats?
combination of these forces and elements all unified to achieve mutually benefitting effects
What are the two most challenging potential enemy Threats that the U.S. face?
Non state entity & Nuclear-Capable Nation-State
What is a Nonstate Enemy Threat?
Entity possessing Weapons of Mass Destruction or other unique methods to challenge U.S. Dominance by Attacking Public Will
What is a Nuclear-capable Nation-State?
Can employ advanced Information Technology, Conventional Military Forces armed with Modern Equipment, and Irregular Forces at various levels of Organization, Training, and Equipment.
What is the Army’s two Core Competencies?
Combined Arms Maneuver and Wide Area Security
What does the Army’s two Core Competencies enable Army Forces to achieve?
Defeat or Destroy an Enemy, Seize or occupy Key Terrain, Protect or Secure Critical Assets and Populations, andPrevent the Enemy from gaining a position of Advantage
What is the Philosophy of Mission Command?
The Exercise of Authority and Direction by the Commander using Mission Orders to enable disciplined initiative within the Commander’s Intent
What is the foundation of Unified Land Operations built on?
Initiative, Decisive Action, and Mission Command
How does the Army Seize, Retain and Exploit the Initiative?
By striking the Enemy, both Lethally and Nonlethally, in time, places, or manners for which the Enemy is not prepared
What is seizing the initiative?
seizing the initiative is setting and dictating the terms of action
how does seizing the initiative affect the enemy ?
by degrading the enemy’s ability to function as coherent force
What are unified land operations?
describes how the Army seizes, retains, and exploits the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage in sustained land operations through simultaneous offensive, defensive, and stability operations in order to prevent or deter conflict, prevail in war, and create the conditions for favorable conflict resolution
What are troop leading procedures?
A dynamic process used by Small-Unit Leaders to analyze a Mission, Develop a Plan, and Prepare for an Operation
What are the TLPs?
Receive the mission, issue the warning order, make a tentative plan, initiate movement, conduct reconnaissance, complete the plan, issue the warning order, supervise and refine
What are the warfighting functions?
Mission Command, Movement and maneuver, Intelligence, Fires, Sustainment, Protection
What are the characteristics of an Army operation?
Flexibility, integration, lethality, adaptability, depth, synchronization
What is an operation?
A military action, consisting of two of more related tactical actions, designed to achieve a Strategic Objective, in whole or in part
What is operational art?
the pursuit of strategic objectives, in whole or in part, through the arrangement of tactical actions in time, space, and purpose
What are sustainment operations?
Operations which enable the decisive operation or shaping operation by generating and maintaining combat power
What is the supporting effort?
designated subordinate units with missions that support the success of the main effort
