Personal Definitions

Question 1

Elements of Operational Design

Answer 1

• Termination
• Military End State
• Objective
• Effects
• COG
• Decisive Point
• LOO / LOEs
• Direct and Indirect Approach
• Anticipation
• Operational Reach
• Culmination
• Arranging Operations
• Force and Functions

Question 2

Elements of Operational Art

Answer 2

• End state conditions
• COG
• Decisive Points
• LOE / LOO
• Operational Reach
• Basing
• Tempo
• Phasing and transitions
• Culmination
• Risk

Question 3

Mission Command Attributes

Answer 3

• Character
• Presence
• Intellect

Question 4

Mission Command Competencies

Answer 4

• Leads
• Develops
• Acheives

Question 5

Principles of Mission Command

Answer 5

• Build cohesive teams through mutual trust
• Create shared understanding
• Provide a clear commander’s intent
• Exercise disciplined initative
• Use mission orders
• Accept prudent risk

Question 6

Strategy

Answer 6

A prudent idea or set of ideas for employing the instruments of national power in a synchronized and integrated fashion to achieve theater, national, and/or multinational objectives

Question 7

Operational Art

Answer 7

The cognitive approach by commanders and staffs—supported by their skill, knowledge, experience, creativity, and judgment—to develop strategies, campaigns, and operations to organize and employ military forces by integrating ends, ways, and means

Question 8

Complex Systems

Answer 8

emergence, feedback processes, mutual interdependence, multiple interactions and influences, human behaviors–lead to dynamics that are non-linear