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The conception and construction of the intellectual framework that underpins the joint operations plans and their subsequent execution is ___ design.
Operational
What is the purpose of doctrine?
Doctrine serves as a starting point for thinking about and conducting operations. In other words, it serves as a common professional language for amongst service members and as a common frame of reference for discussing operations.
What best describes the Ethical Triangle?
Principles: Act in accordance with the established values and principles.
Virtues: Golden Rule; Do unto others as you would have them do to you.
Consequences: Do the greatest good for the greatest number.
Who are the Statutory / Principle advisors of the National Security Organization/Council?
Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff (CJCS)
How often is the Unified Command Plan (UCP) reviewed and updated?
Every two years
What documents go to the Combat Command under strategic guidance?
Guidance for Employment of the Force (GEF) Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan (JSCP)
What is the specified standards approved by the President and or the Secretary of Defense that must be met before a joint operations can be concluded?
Termination criteria
The hub of all power and movement upon which everything depends.
Clausewitz COG
The difference between war in real life and war on paper is…
Friction
The conception and construction of the intellectual framework that underpins joint operations plans and their subsequent execution is ___ design
Operational
Operational reach is the ___ and ___ across which a joint force can successfully employ military capabilities.
Distance, duration
How do you tell if a COA is distinguishable? (6 items)
- Task org
- Scheme of maneuver
- Main effort
- Primary mechanisms of mission accomplishment
- Sequential versus simultaneous maneuvers
- Reserve
What are the six principles of Mission Command?
- Build cohesive teams through mutual trust
- Shared understanding
- Clear commander’s intent
- Disciplined initiative
- Mission orders
- Accepts prudent risk
What is the distinction of mission command as a philosophy and mission command as a warfighting function?
Philosophy: Commanders understand their leadership guides the actions of the force. Commanders, assisted by their staff, use the guiding principles of mission command to balance the art of command with the science of control
What are the tenants of the Clausewitzian Trinity?
Government, People, Military
What is unified action?
Synchronization, coordination, and/or integration of the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities with military operations to achieve unity of effort.
The point in time or space at which the operation can go no longer maintaining momentum
Culmination point
What are the four steps of IPB
- ) Define the OE
- ) Describe environmental effects on operations
- ) Evaluate the threat
- ) Determine threat COAs
___ is used to gain a position of advantage that degrades and defeats the enemy throughout the depth of an organization.
Initiative
A point in time or space where the commander or staff anticipate making a key decision concerning a specific course of action is the ___ point.
Decision
What is the operation that directly accomplishes the mission? It determines the outcome of a major operation, battle, or engagement. The decisive operation is the focal point around which commanders design an entire operation.
Decisive operation
Identify the seven characteristics of the defense. (MMOPS DF)
- Disruption
- Flexibility
- Maneuver
- Mass/Concentration
- Operations in Depth
- Preparation
- Security
What is the source of power that provides moral or physical strength, freedom of action, or will to act?
Center of Gravity
A geographic place, specific key event, critical factor, or function that, when acted upon, allows the commander to gain a marked advantage.
Decisive point
What best describes how the Army seizes, retains, and exploits the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage in sustained land operations?
ULO
What are the three forms of defense?
- Defense of a linear obstacle
- Perimeter defense
- Defense of a reverse slope
What are the three forms of defensive tasks?
- Area defense
- Mobile Defense
- Retrograde
What is the purpose of JCIDS?
Develop a balanced and synchronized DOTMLPF-P solution that is affordable, useful, effective, supportable, and based on mature technology.
What are the five phases of the Army Force Development Process?
- Develop capabilities
- Design organizations
- Develop organizational models
- Determine authorizations
- Document organizational authorizations
What is the capabilities development document?
The CDD is the warfighter’s primary means of defining authoritative, measurable, and/or testable capabilities for the Engineering and Manufacturing phase of an acquisition program.
What provides guidance for the employment of the force, and provides the “what”?
GEF
What documents go to the Combatant Command under strategic guidance?
Guidance for Employment of the Force (GEF)
Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan (JSCP)
What documents go to the services under strategic guidance?
DPG (Defense Planning Guidance)
What are the seven steps of the Joint Planning Process?
- ) Planning initiation
- ) Mission analysis
- ) COA Dev
- ) COA Analysis and War games
- ) COA Comparision and COA Approval Plan
- ) Orders development
- ) Plan assessment
What are the operational design key components?
- Understand the OE
- Define the problem or problem statement
- Operational approach
What facilitates the coordination and cooperation toward common objectives, even if the participants are not in the same command organization? (product of unified action)
Unity of effort
What is conducted to defeat and destroy enemy forces and seize terrain, resources, and population centers?
Offense
What is conducted to defeat an enemy attack, gain time, economize force, and develop conditions favorable for offensive or stability tasks?
Defense
What is conducted outside the US IAW instruments of national power to maintain or reestablish a safe and secure environment, provide essential government services?
Stability
What command relationship defines the authority to perform those functions of command over subordinate forces involving organizing and employing commands and forces, assigning tasks, designating objectives, and giving authoritative direction necessary to accomplish the mission?
OPCON
What command relationship defines the authority over forces that is limited to the detailed direction and control of movements or maneuvers within the operational area necessary to accomplish missions or tasks assigned.
TACON
What explains what we do and how we do it; Related to the organization; Often more deeply rooted than the current command.
Organizational culture
What are the three levels of leadership?
- Direct
- Organizational
- Strategic
What are the four steps of the Army Operations Process?
- Plan
- Prepare
- Execute
- Assess
Operational variables include Political, Military, Economic, ___, Social, Information, Physical Environment, and Time.
Intelligence
What is a “system of systems” approach that is designed to generate trained and ready units for Combatant Commanders?
Army force management Model
What support is given to the supported unit as a whole rather than to a particular subdivision thereof?
General support
Offensive task that usually follows the conduct of a successful attack and is designed to disorganize the enemy in depth.
Exploitation
Offensive task designed to catch or cut off a hostile force attempting to escape, with the aim of destroying it?
Pursuit
Justification for initiating war based on proper authority, just cause, right integration, probability of success, as a last resort, and proportionally.
Jus ad bellum
