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| What does Unified land operations describe?? |
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describes how the Army 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 |
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| a guide to action rather than a set of fixed rules |
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| a statement of how the Army intends to fight |
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| What is operational environment?? |
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| a composite of the conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the employment of capabilities and bear on the decisions of the commander |
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| What are operational variables?? |
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| consist of political, military, economic, social,information, infrastructure, physical environment, time (known as PMESII-PT). |
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| What are mission variables?? |
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consist of mission, enemy, terrain and weather, troops and support
available, time available, civil considerations (known as METT-TC). |
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| Are two operational environments identical?? Even within the same theater of operations?? |
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T/F
Operational environments are not static |
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| Army forces operating as part of a larger national effort |
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T/F
Threats are not static or monolithic |
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| Threats can arise from what?? |
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| divergent interests or competition among states, groups, or organizations in an operational environment |
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| Threats attempt to do what?? |
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isolate and defeat U.S. tactical formations while avoiding battle
under unfavorable conditions |
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| potential enemy comes in two forms. What are they?? |
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1. One form is a nonstate entity possessing weapons of mass destruction or other unique methods to challenge U.S.dominance by attacking public will.
2. The other form is a nuclear-capable nation-state partnered with one or more nonstate actors through ideological, religious, political, or other ties |
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| Unified land operations is what?? |
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| the Army’s warfighting doctrine |
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| is this statement "To seize, retain, and exploit the initiative" initiative is refered to as what?? |
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| setting and dictating the terms of action |
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| What are Defensive operations?? |
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| operations conducted to defeat an enemy attack, gain time, economize forces, and develop conditions favorable for offensive and stability tasks |
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| What are Stability operations?? |
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| military missions, tasks, and activities conducted outside the United States to maintain or reestablish a safe and secure environment and to provide essential governmental services, emergency infrastructure reconstruction, and humanitarian relief. |
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| What are the 5 task of stability Operations?? |
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1.establish civil security
2.establish civil control
3.restore essential services
4.support to governance
5.support to economic and infrastructure development. |
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a series of related major
operations aimed at achieving strategic and operational objectives within a given time and space |
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| to employ a versatile mix of capabilities,formations, and equipment for conducting operations |
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| capacity for physical destruction |
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| to accept that no prefabricated solutions to tactical or operational problems exist |
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| Depth is the extension of operations in space, time, or purpose |
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| What is Synchronization?? |
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| the arrangement of military actions in time, space, and purpose to produce maximum relative combat power at a decisive place and time |
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| What is Operational art?? |
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the pursuit of strategic objectives, in whole or in part, through the
arrangement of tactical actions in time, space, and purpose |
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| What does (MDMP) stand for?? |
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| The military decisionmaking process?? |
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| Preparation consists of activities that units perform to improve their ability to execute an operation. |
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Execution puts a plan into action by applying combat power to accomplish the
mission and using situational understanding to assess progress and make execution and adjustment decisions. |
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| Assessment is continuously monitoring and evaluating the current situation and the progress of an operation. |
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| Planning is the art and science of understanding a situation, envisioning a desired future, and laying out effective ways of bringing about that future |
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| What is Area of Operations?? |
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| An area of operations is an operational area defined by the joint force commander for land and maritime forces that should be large enough to accomplish their missions and protect their forces |
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| What is an Area of Interest?? |
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| An area of interest is that area of concern to the commander, including the area of influence, areas adjacent thereto, and extending into enemy territory. |
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| What are Deep operations?? |
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| Deep operations involve efforts to disrupt uncommitted enemy forces |
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| What are Close operations?? |
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| Close operations involve efforts to have immediate effects with committed friendly forces—potentially in direct contact with enemy forces |
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| What are Security operations?? |
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| Security operations involve efforts to provide early and accurate warning of enemy operations |
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| What is A warfighting function?? |
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A warfighting function is a group of tasks and systems united by a common purpose that commanders use to
accomplish missions |
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