FC - Unified Land Operations.txt

• How Army units seize, retain, and exploit the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage in sustained land operations to create conditions for favorable conflict resolution. The Army's warfighting doctrine.
• Combined Maneuver & Wide-area Security

• -Flexibility
• -Integration
• -Lethality
• -Adaptability
• -Depth
• -Synchronization

• Offensive
• Defensive
• Stability

Operations conducted to defeat and destroy enemy forces and seize terrain, resources and population centers; and impose the commander's will on the enemy.

• Movement to contact
• Attack
• Exploitation
• Pursuit

Various military missions, tasks and activities conducted outside the United States in coordination with other instruments of national power to maintain or re-establish a safe and secure environment, provide essential governmental services, emergency infrastructure reconstruction and humanitarian relief.

• Civil Security
• Civil Control
• Restore Essential Services
• Support to Governance
• Support for Economic & Infrastructure Development

• Mobile Defense
• Area Defense
• Retrograde

Operations to defeat an enemy attack, buy time, economize forces, or develop conditions favorable for offensive or stability operations.

• Decisive (enemy focused)
• Shaping (enemy focused)
• Sustaining (internally focused)

Directs the manner in which subordinate units cooperate to accomplish the mission and establish a sequence of actions the force will use to achieve the desired end state.

The operation the directly accomplishes the mission

Operations at any echelon that creates and preserves the conditions for the success of the decisive operation.

An operation at any echelon that enables the decisive or shaping operations by maintaining and generating combat power; determines operational tempo.

• Contiguous: boundaries touch
• Non-contiguous: distinct AOs; unassigned areas between belong to higher HQ

The total means of destructive, constructive or information force which a military unit/formation can apply against the opponent at a given time.

• Strategic - National interests
• Operational - Campaign & major operations
• Tactical - Battles & engagements

• Purpose
• Key Tasks
• End State