ULO

What are the Foundations of ULO?

What are the Army Core Competencies?

A ____ is any combination of actors, entities, or forces that have the capability and intent to harm US forces, National Interests, or the homeland. 

A/An ____ is a party identified as hostile against which the use of force is authorized.

A/An _____ is a party acknowledged as potentially hostile to a friendly party and against which the use of force may be envisaged.

A/An ____ is a party identified as neither supporting nor opposing friendly or enemy forces.

A/An _____ is the diverse and dynamic combination of regular forces, irregular forces, terrorist forces, and/or criminal elements unified to achieve mutually benefiting effects.

Army forces must synchronize actions to achieve _____ __ _____ that ensures mission accomplishment.

What is "the synchronization, coordination, and/or integration of the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities with military operations to achieve unity of effort"?

Unified Action is synchronized with the activities of what?

How many and what are the Unified Action Partners?

What type of coordination is within the context of DOD involvement, between elements of DOD, and engage US gov't agencies and departments for the purpose of achieving an objective.

Which coordination occurs among: DOD, US gov't agencies, State/territorial/Local/Tribal agencies, Foreign Mil/Gov agencies and IGO/NGO/Private sectors?

Which cooperatoin is all DoD interactions with foreign defense establishments to build defense relationships that promote strategic objectives?

What are these also known as:
Specific US security interests
Develop allied/friendly military capabilities for self-defense & multinational ops
Provide US forces w/ peacetime & contingency access to a host nation

What are the three types of civilian organizations?

What is "created by a formal agreement between 2 or more govn't on a global, regional, or functional basis to protect or promote national interests shared by member states"?

What are private, self-governing, not-for-profit organization dedicated to alleviating human suffering; promoting education, health care, economic development, environ protection, human rights, and conflict resolution?

What is "a non DoD agency of the US government"?

What are the two types of Multinational Operations?

____ relationship that results from a formal agreement between two or more nations for broad, long-term objectives that further the common interest of the members.

_____ is an arrangement between two or more nations for common action. Nations usually form these for focused, short-term purposes.

Name four agencies that are non-DoD agencies of the US government.

Army's primary mission is to _____, _____, and _____ forces to conduct prompt and sustained land combat operations.

____ ____ is warfare carried out on land in a direct fire-fight supported by direct and indirect fire and other assets. 

What three things must be defined when determining an Area of Operations?

What is defined as "the continuous, simultaneous combinations of the offense, defensive, and stability or defense support of civil authorities tasks"?

_____ is conducted to defeat and destroy enemy forces and seize terrain, resources, and population centers.

____ is conducted to defeat an enemy attack, gain time, economize forces, and develop conditions favorable for offensive or stability tasks.

_____ support host nation, interim government, or transitional military authority when not present. 

This is the "application of elements of combat power in unified action to defeat enemy ground forces; to seize, occupy, and defend land areas; and to achieve physical, temporal, and psychological advantages over the enemy to seize and exploit the initiative.

What is the application of the elements of combat power in unified action to protect populations, forces, infrastructure, and activities; to deny the enemy positions of advantage; and to consolidate gains in order to retain the initiative.

How many and what are the tenets of ULO?

_____ a series of related major operations aimed at achieving strategic and operational objectives within a given time and space.

______ _____ - series of tactical actions conducted by combat forces of a single or several services, coordinated in time and space, to achieve strategic or operational objectives in an operational area.

What is the use of creative thinking by commanders and staffs to design strategies, campaigns, and major operations and organize and employ military forces.

What is the conception and construction of the intellectual framework that underpins join operational plans (OPLANs) and their subsequent execution?

How many principles of Joint Operations are there? What are they?

Which Elements of Operational Art and Design are shared?

Commanders should consider how many factors when arranging operations? What are they?

How many fundamentals of successful reconnaissance operations are there? What are they?

What is the capability to conduct rapid and orderly movement to concentrate combat power?

_____ ____ are movements of troops and equipment mainly on foot, with limited support by vehicles.

___ ___ employ combat and tactical vehicles to move all of its personnel and equipment.

___ ___ ___ are operations involving the use of utility and cargo rotary wing assets for other than air assaults.

A ___ __ ____ is a rapid movement used to relocate units within an area of operations to prepare for combat operations.

An ___ ___ is the advance of a combat unit when direct contact with the enemy is intended.

How many movement techniques are there? what are they?

a ____ ___ occurs when Soldiers are being made to move at such a rate that they would normally tire excessively, based on military necessity. 

An ____ ___ occurs when troops and vehicles are arranged to expedite their movement and conserve time and energy, with no interference from the enemy. 

How many fundamental of Urban Operations are there?

These are the fundamentals of what?
Perform IIA aggressively
Maintain Close Combat Capability
Avoid the attrition approach
Control the Essential
Minimize Collateral Damage
Preserve Critical Infrastructure
Separate the noncombatants from combatants
Transition control
Create a collaborative Information environ
Understand how Soldiers & Civilians react under the pressure of combat in an Urban evironment
Restore Essential servies

Who is the greatest QB of all time?

What are the characteristics of the defense?

How many, and what are the Defensive tasks?

What are the Defensive Control Measures?

_____ A defensive location orientated on a likely enemy avenue of approach.

_____ Means by which maneuver commanders employ and regulate direct fire. 

_____ is a Phase line that, when crossed by the enemy, signals to defending elements that it is time to displace to their next position. 

_____ assists in the rapid engagement of targets and provide safeguards for friendly forces. 

This is defined as "Coordinating area for fire support, positioning of forces, and the maneuver of units", "Forward-most area of troop deployment, excluding covering and screening forces. "

What is defined as "area where the bulk of a unit's combat is deployed to conduct decisive operations to defeat an attacking enemy"?

What are the three forms of defense?

_____ is established  when a unit must hold critical terrain or when it must defend itself in areas where the defense is not tied in with adjacent units.

What are the three steps of Transition to the Offense?

What are the 2 types of transitional methods?

What does Stability "aim" to do (goals)?

Who is responsible for the stability of the host nation?

What are the three-levels of engagement for addressing conflict?

Stability tasks focus on _____ host-nation capacity and capability. 

Impose the Commander's will on the enemy
Defeat, destroy or neutralize the enemy
Secure decisive terrain
Deprive the enemy of resources
Gain information
Disrupt enemy's attack
Set up conditions for future successful operations.
What are these?

How many and what are the characteristics of the offense?

How many and what are the offensive tasks?

Develops the situation to establish or regain contact, creates favorable conditions for subsequent action and is used when the enemy situation is vague. What is this?

Destroys enemy force, seizes or secures terrain, hasty or deliberate and uses METT-TC to determine type of attack is the definition to what?

This usually follows successful attack, designed to disorganize, seeks to disintegrate enemy forces planned as branches or sequels at division or higher. What is it?

Designed to catch or cut off, prevents escape, aims to destroy, normally follows successful exploitation and used anytime the enemy is fleeing. What is it?

Not clear on the focus of Offensive planning considerations (Couldn't find exactly in slides) Please refer to slide 41 through 43. 

The ____ of tactics encompasses the understanding of those military aspects of tactics-capabilities, techniques, and procedures- that can be measured and codified. 

The ___ of tactics involves the creative and flexible array of means to accomplish assigned missions, decision making of uncertainty when facing a thinking and adaptive enemy and understanding the uncertainty of combat on troops. 

_____ ____ is the key to achieving decisive results?

What are the following:
Terrain management,
Information collection,
Civil affairs operations,
Air and ground movement control,
Clearance of fires,
security,
personnel recovery,
environmental considerations