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Basic Maneuver Doctrine Flashcards

1
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What are the offensive tasks?

MAEP

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  • Movement to contact
  • Attack
  • Exploitation
  • Pursuit
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What are types of movement to contact?

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  • Search and attack
  • Cordon and search
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Types of attacks

ACDSF

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  • Ambush
  • Counterattack
  • Demonstration
  • Spoiling attack
  • Feint Raid
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Forms of maneuver

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  • Envelopment
  • Flank attack
  • Frontal attack
  • Infiltration
  • Penetration
  • Turning movement
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Defensive tasks

AMR

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  • Area defense
  • Mobile defense
  • Retrograde operations
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Define area defense

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Deny enemy access to designated terrain for a specific time

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Define mobile defense

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Destroy enemy through fire and maneuver

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Define retrograde operations

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Executed to gain time, preserve forces, or avoid combat under undesirable conditions

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9
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Types of retrograde operations

DWR

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  • Delay
  • Withdrawal
  • Retirement
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Forms of the defense

DPR

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  • Defense of a linear obstacle
  • Perimeter defense
  • Reverse slope defense
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Define a defense of a linear obstacle

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An area or a mobile defense along an existing obstacle such as a river or mountainous terrain

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Define perimeter defense

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Oriented in all directions e.g. combat outposts control of critical terrain, or if a force is not tied in with adjacent units

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Define reverse slope defense

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Topographical feature used to mask the defending force from enemy observation and direct fire

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What are the defensive shaping operations

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  • Countermobility and mobility operations
  • Reconnaissance and security operations
  • Aerial-delivered and long-range precision indirect fires
  • Passage of line (forward and rearward)
  • Action of fixing forces that shape to support the decisive operation
  • Movements of units that directly facilitate other shaping operations and the decisive operation
  • Actions by reserve forces before their commitment
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What are the reasons to transition to offensive tasks

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  • If defense is successful, transition to the offense
  • If defense is unsuccessful transition to retrograde operations
  • Contingency planning for transition:
    • Establishes the required organization of forces
    • Decreased the time needed to adjust the tempo
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What are the characteristics of the offense?

SCAT

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  • Audacity
  • Concentration
  • Surprise
  • Tempo / Rapid Tempo
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17
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What are the combat formations?

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  • Column
  • Line
  • Echelon (left or right)
  • Box
  • Diamond
  • Wedge
  • Vee
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What are the forms of contact (8)?

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  • Visual
  • Direct
  • Indirect
  • Non-hostile
  • Obstacles
  • Aircraft
  • CBRN
  • EW
19
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What are the characteristics of the defense?

PMS-DF-MCO

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  • Disruption
  • Flexibility
  • Maneuver
  • Mass
  • Concentration
  • Operations in Depth
  • Preparation
  • Security
20
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What are the battle positions?

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  • Primary
  • Alternate
  • Supplementary
  • Subsequent
  • Strong point
21
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What are the tactical enabling tasks?

RRSSTPEU

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  • Reconnaissance
  • Security
  • Troop Movements
  • Relief in Place
  • Passage of Lines
  • Encirclement Operations
  • Urban Operations
  • Security Operations
22
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What are the mobility operation tasks?

BCGCF

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  • Breaching operations
  • Clearing operations (areas and routes)
  • Gap-crossing operations
  • Combat roads and trails
  • Forward airfields and landing
23
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What are the types of RIP?

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  • Sequential
  • Simultaneous
  • Staggered
24
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What are the types of reconnaissance?

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  • Route
  • Zone
  • Area
  • Reconnaissance in force (RIF)
  • Special
25
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What are the types of troop movements?

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  • Administrative
  • Approach March
  • Road March
26
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What are the types of security operations?

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  • Screen
  • Guard
  • Cover
  • Area
  • Local
27
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What are the tactical mission tasks: Action by friendly forces?

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  • Attack by Fire
  • Follow and assume
  • Breach
  • Follow and support
  • Bypass
  • Occupy
  • Clear
  • Reduce
  • Control
  • Secure
  • Disengage
  • Seize
  • Exfiltrate
  • Support-by-fire
  • Counter-reconnaissance
  • Retain
28
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What are the tactical mission Tasks: Effects on Enemy Forces?

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  • Block
  • Canalize
  • Contain
  • Defeat
  • Destroy
  • Disrupt
  • Fix
  • Interdict
  • Isolate
  • Neutralize
  • Suppress
  • Turn
29
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What are the tactical mission tasks: Purposes?

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  • Allow
  • Cause
  • Create
  • Deceive
  • Deny
  • Divert
  • Enable
  • Envelope
  • Influence
  • Open
  • Prevent
  • Protect
  • Support
  • Surprise
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What are the fundamentals of Recon

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  • Ensure continuous recon
  • Do not keep recon assets in reserve
  • Orient on the recon objective
  • report info rapidly and accurately
  • Retain freedom of maneuver
  • gain and maintain enemy contact
  • Develop the situation rapidly
31
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What are the basic tactical concepts

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  • operation
  • operational framework
  • piecemeal commitment
  • reconstitution
  • reserve
  • rules of engagement
  • tactical mobility
  • uncommitted forces
  • defeat in detail
  • AO
  • Combined arms
  • concept of ops
  • decisive engagement
  • flanks
  • maneuver
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32
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What are the principles of protection

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  • comprehensive
  • integrated
  • layered
  • redundant
  • enduring
33
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Principles of fires

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  • precision
  • scalable
  • synchronized
  • responsive
  • networked
34
Q

What are the componets of physical security

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  • deterrence
  • detection
  • assessment
  • delay
  • response
35
Q

What are the characteristics of fires?

APMAI

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  • All weather
  • precision / near precision
  • mass area fires
  • air and space integration
  • inherently joint
36
Q

What are the supporting distance factors?

DEFTR

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  • terrain and mobility
  • distance
  • enemy capabilities
  • friendly capabilities
  • reaction time
37
Q

What are the fundamentals of assured mobility?

PDPANP

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  • predict
  • detect
  • prevent
  • avoid
  • neutralize
  • protect
38
Q

What are the fundamental of gap crossing?

SEPTSOF

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  • surprise
  • extensive
  • preparation
  • traffic control
  • speed
  • organization
  • flexible planning
39
Q

What are the aviation brigade missions?

RSMAAAC

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  • Recon
  • secutiy
  • MTC
  • attack
  • AASLT
  • air mvmt
  • C2 support
40
Q

What are the AASLT planning phases

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  • ground tactical plan
  • landing plan
  • air movement plan
  • loding plan
  • staging plan
41
Q

What are the operations reaches?

AFTB

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  • Army prepositions stocks
  • force projection
  • theater opening
  • basing theater closing
42
Q

What are the phases of gap crossing

AAASC

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  1. Advance to the gap
  2. assault across the gap
  3. advance from the far side
  4. secure the bridgehead line
  5. continue the attack
43
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What are the Recon management processes

A
  • Cueing
  • Mixing
  • Redundancy

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