Warfighting Functions Flashcards
What are the 7 Warfighting Functions? Hint: C-MIILFF
- Command and Control
- Maneuver
- Information
- Intelligence
- Logistics
- Fires
- Force Protection
What is the purpose of the Warfighting Functions in acordance with MCDP 1-0 operations?
Warfighting functions are conceptual planning and execution tools used by planners to help us determine our strategy.
Integration helps us focus, unity of effort on a mission, and build and sustain combat power.
Describe Command and Control
DEFINITION: “The exercise of authority and direction by a designated Commander to accomplish a mission.”
IMPORTANCE: Effective C2 is placing yourself in a position to make effective decisions as a commander
Command and Control is the overarching Warfighting Function that enables all ofthe other Warfighting Functions, and harmonizes them into a meaningful whole.
Describe Maneuver
DEFINITION: “The movement of forces for the purpose of gaining a position of advantage over the enemy.”
This advantage may be psychological, technological, temporal, or spatial. It is also the means of focusing efforts and generating decisive results in the moral, mental, and physical spheres of war, which enable a smaller force to defeat a larger one.
Describe Information
DEFINITION: “Information is the integrated employment, during military operations, of information-related capabilities in concert with other lines of operation to influence, disrupt, corrupt, or usurp the decision-making of adversaries while protecting our own.”
It involves the integration, coordination, and synchronization of all actions taken in the informational environment to affect a target audience’s behavior in order to create an operational advantage for the commander
Describe Intelligence
DEFINITION: “Intelligence provides an understanding of the enemy, environment, and battlespace, which leads to the identification of enemy centers of gravity and critical vulnerabilities.”
Intelligence supports the formulation and subsequent modifications of the commander’s estimate of the situation and all decision-making. Intelligence collection is the responsibility of every organization, unit, and individual, and is a continuous activity.
Describe Logistics
DEFINITION: “Logistics encompasses all activities required to move and sustain military forces.”
It is all about the effective use and procurement of limited resources and preserving resources to use to your advantage
Describe Fires
DEFINITION: “Fires is the use of weapons systems or other actions to create specific lethal or non-lethal effects on target.”
Fires seek to delay, disrupt, degrade, or destroy enemy capabilities as well as to affect the enemy’s will to fight. It is the selective application of fires to reduce or eliminate a key element resulting in a major disabling of the enemy system.
The Commander is not seeking physical destruction – the cumulative effects which are felt slowly – but the disruption it causes the enemy. Fires are normally used with maneuver to help shape the battlespace, and set conditions for decisive action.
Define Force Protection
DEFINITION: “Safeguards our own source of strength and protects, conceals, reduces or eliminates our vulnerabilities.”
The measures taken to preserve the forces fighting potential so that it can be applied at the decisive time and place on the battlefield.
