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What are the Operational Variables?
Political, Military, Economic, Social, Information, Infrastructure, Physical Environment, and Time (PMESII-PT)
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What are the Mission Variables?
METT-TC
Mission, Enemy, Terrain and Weather, Troops and support available, Time available, and Civil Considerations
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What is the Army's Operational Concept and Army’s contribution to Unified Acton?
Unified Land Operations
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What are the Army’s core competencies?
Wide Area Security and Combined Arms Maneuver
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What are the three advantages in Combine arms maneuver (CAM)?
Physical, Temporal and Psychological
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What is Mission Command?
Exercise of authority and direction by the commander to conduct Unified Land Operations
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What are mission command systems?
Personnel, Networks, Information Systems, Process and procedures, Facilities and Equipment
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How many tenets of Unified Land Operations are there? What are they?
- 6
- Flexibility, Integration, Lethality, Adaptability, Depth and Synchronization.
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What is the three operational framework used to organize operations?
Decisive-Shaping-Sustaining Operations
Deep-Close-Security Operations
Main and Support Efforts
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What are the warfighting functions?
Mission Command
Maneuver
Fires
Protection
Intelligence
Sustainment
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What is the Army’s Operation Process?
Plan, Prepare, Execute, Assess
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Army Leaders employ what four planning methods?
Army Design, MDMP, TLP, D3A
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What are the purposes of the National Strategy?
To provide Ends (objectives) + Ways (course of action) + Means (instruments)
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What is the means available to the government in its pursuit of national objectives in which it can be leveraged?
Instruments of National Power (Diplomatic, Informational, Military, and Economic…..DIME)
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What Instrument of National Power is used by engaging with other states and foreign groups to advance US values, interests, objectives and solicit support for military operations?
Diplomacy
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The US employs which Instrument of National Power in support of its national security goals?
Military
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Q: Who is the senior statutory member (Chair) of the National Security Council (NSC)?
POTUS
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Q: T or F; the SecDef is the statutory military advisor to the NSC?
A: False, he is a member
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Q: Who establishes and approves Joint doctrine?
A: CJCS
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Q: What are the two categories of Combatant Commands?
A: Geographic and Functional
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Q: Name four of the six Geographic Commands.
A: NORTHCOM, EUCOM, CENTCOM, PACOM, SOUTHCOM, AFRICOM
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Q: Name the three Functional Commands?
A: SOCOM, STRATCOM, TRANSCOM
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Q: What are the categories of support associated with Joint Operations?
A: General Support, Mutual Support, Direct Support, and Close Support
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Q: What is derived from the NSS and the NDS. This document defines objectives, how to accomplish these objectives, and what resources are required to execute the strategy?
A: National Military Strategy
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Q: What are the four instruments of national power?
A: Diplomatic, Informational, Military, and Economic (DIME)
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What are the Levels of War?
- Strategic Level
- Operational Level
- Tactical Level
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What does the Strategic Level of War conduct?
- National Policy
- Theater Strategy
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What does the Operational Level of War conduct?
- Campaigns
- Major Operations
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What does the Tactical Level of War conduct?
- Battles
- Engagements
- Small unit and crew actions
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The Area of Operations is defined by the ________________ for Land and maritime forces that should be large enough to accomplish their mission and protect their forces.
Joint Force Commander
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The US military recognizes two basic forms of warfare. What are they?
- Traditional Warfare
- Irregular Warfare
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Who signs the National Defense Strategy?
POTUS
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When is the National Military Strategy (NMS) required to be submitted to congress?
every even numbered year
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What are the tasks for Decisive Action?
- Offensive Task
- Defensive Task
- Stability Task
- Defense Support of Civil Authority
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What is FIRES?
the use of weapons systems to create specific lethal or nonlethal effects on a target (JP 3-0).
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The fires warfighting function includes the following tasks:
- •Deliver fires
- •Integrate all forms of Army, joint and multinational fires.
- •Conduct targeting.
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Define Targeting
process of selecting and prioritizing targets and matching the appropriate response to them, considering operational requirements and capabilities (JP 3-0).
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What is a Target?
an entity or object considered for possible engagement or other action (JP 3-60).
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What is the three critical capabilities of targeting?
- •Target Acquisition
- •Target Discrimination
- •Target Engagement
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What are the FIRES core competencies?
- Air Defense Artillery .
- Field Artillery
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What are the 4 Inherent Field Artillery Support Responsibilities?
- Direct Support,
- General Support,
- General Support Reinforcing
- Reinforcing
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Who is overall responsible for targeting at the Joint level?
Joint Force Commander
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Which instrument of power must have the capability to conduct sustained peacetime engagement activities as well as respond to two general types of crises?
Military
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What is Strategy?
The pursuit, protection, or advancement of national interests through the application of the INSTRUMENTS OF POWER
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Within strategy, what does “Ends” or objectives explain?
‘what’ is to be accomplished.
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Within strategy, what does “Ways” or COA explain?
‘how’ the ends are to be accomplished by the employment of resources.
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Within strategy, what does “Means” or resources explain?
what specific resources are to be used in applying the concepts to accomplish the objective
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Who is the SENIOR statutory advisor to the National Security Council (NSC)?
CJCS
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Who signs the National Defense Strategy which outlines DODs approach to implementing the POTUSs NSS?
Secretary of Defense
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During ULO, what do we utilized to seizes, retains, and exploits the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage in sustained land operations through simultaneous offensive, defensive, and stability operations in order to prevent or deter conflict, prevail in war, and create the conditions for favorable conflict resolution (ADP 3-0)
Decisive Action
Army core Competencies
Mission Command
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Who defines the Area of Operations for Land and maritime forces that should be large enough to accomplish their mission and protect their forces.
Joint Force Commander
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What replaced Full Spectrum Operations as the Army term for simultaneous combinations of Offense, Defense, and Stability/DSCA tasks?
Decisive Action
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Which one of the Decisive Action task replaced civil support?
Defense Support of Civil Authority (DSCA)
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Which army core Competencies is the application of the 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?
Combine Arms Maneuver
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Which Army Core Competencies 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?
Wide Area Security
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What is the most essential task within Mission Command?
Commanders Task
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Operational art applies to all aspects of operations and integrates _____, ______, and _____while accounting for risk, across the levels of war.
ends, ways, and means,
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What is the role of FIRES?
To enable Army forces to seize and retain the initiative, prevent and deter conflict, defeat adaptive threats and succeed in a wide range of contingencies.
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How is the Fire Support planning accomplished?
- -targeting
- -running estimates
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What is the mission of the Field Artillery?
To destroy, defeat, or disrupt the enemy with integrated fires to enable maneuver commanders to dominate in unified land operations.
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Describe the Decisive-Shaping-Sustaining Framework?
- -Decisive Operations:preparation fires, close support fires, interdiction, SEAD, final protective fires, electronic attack, and counterfire
- -Shaping Operations: disrupt or destroy enemy attacking echelons, and capabilities, limit enemy ability to shift forces or capabilities, and sustain momentum of attack
- -Sustaining Operations:protect and enable friendly forces to retain freedom of action
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Define or describe the Fire WFF?
The fires warfighting function is the related tasks and systems that provide collective and coordinated use of Army indirect fires, AMD, and joint fires through the targeting process
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The Fire Support Plan is comprised of what elements?
- -Fires paragraph
- -OPLAN/OPORD
- -Annex D
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What element synchronizes joint, interagency, multi-national assets, fire support, and sensor management?
The Fires Element
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What ARFOR target list information does the BCD Targeting Officer provide?
- -Priorities
- -Timing of attack
- -Desired effect
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What does the BCD Targeting Officer coordinate and integrate the ARFOR target list into?
Air Tasking Order (ATO)
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Who is overall responsible for targeting at the Joint level?
Joint Force Commander (JFC)
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What 2 elements/groups can the Joint Force Commander form with regards to targeting?
- -Joint Fires Element (JFE)
- -Joint Targeting Coordination Board (JTCB)
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What is the primary action agency for targeting at the Corps and Division level?
Fires Cell
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What is the objective of fires planning?
To optimize combat power.
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What Fire Support Tasks consist of?
Task, Purpose, Execution, and Assessment
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Who coordinates with the collection manager to retrieve BDA data as acquired?
FAIO
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What is the pursuit of strategic objectives, in whole or in part, through the arrangement of tactical actions in time, space, and purpose?
Operational Art
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What is the use of critical and creative thinking by commanders and staffs to design strategies, campaigns, major operations, battles, and engagements to organize and employ military?
Operational Art
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