Warfighting Functions (completed) Flashcards
What are the 7 warfighting functions?
- maneuver
- fires
- intelligence
- logistics
- force protection
- command and control
- information
What is Maneuver?
movement of forces for the purpose of gaining an advantage over the enemy in order to accomplish our objectives. 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. This advantage may be
psychological, technological, temporal, or spatial.
What is Fires?
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.
What is 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.
What is Logistics?
all activities required to move and sustain military forces.It provides the resources of combat power, positions them on the battlefield, andsustains them throughout the execution of operations. Logistics establishes limitson what is tactically and operationally possible. Effective logistics is focused on effectively using limited resources and extending the limits as far as possible.
What is Force Protection?
measures taken to preserve the forces fighting potential so that it can be applied at the decisive time and place on the battlefield. It safeguards our own centers of gravity and protects, conceals, reduces, or eliminates those centers of gravity from enemy identification.
What is Command and Control?
the overarching Warfighting Function that enables all ofthe other Warfighting Functions, and harmonizes them into a meaningful whole.MCDP 6: Command and Control states “No activity in war is more important thancommand and control.” It provides the means for a commander to form an understanding of the situation, decide what action is required, transmit instructions to subordinate commanders, monitor the execution of instructions, and assess the results of the action. At all levels, command and control requires flexible and decentralized mission-type orders to exploit the human traits such as boldness, initiative, strength of will, and imagination.
What is Information?
the integrated employment, during military operations, ofinformation-related capabilities in concert with other lines of operation toinfluence, disrupt, corrupt, or usurp the decision making of adversaries whileprotecting our own. Information-related capabilities include, but are not limited to,intelligence, information, and communication strategy and operations(CommStrat).
