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What are the elements of decisive action?

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Offense
Defense
Stability
DSCA

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Define unified land operations

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Seizes, retains, and exploits the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage through simultaneous offensive, defensive, and stability operations to prevent or deter conflict, prevail in war, and create the conditions for favorable conflict resolution

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What are the Army’s core competencies?

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Combined Arms Maneuver

Wide Area Security

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What are the fundamentals of Mission command?

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Build cohesive teams through trust
Create shared understanding
Provide clear commanders intent
Exercise disciplined initiative
Use mission orders
Except prudent risk
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What are the warfighting functions?

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Mission Command
Movement and Maneuver
Fires
Intelligence
Sustainment
Protection
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What are the principles of joint operations?

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Mass
Objective
Offensive
Security
Economy of Force
Maneuver
Unity of Command
Surprise
Simplicity
Restraint
Perseverance 
Legitimate
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What are the tenants of unified land operations?

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Synchronization
Adaptability
Depth
Flexibility
Integration
Lethality
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What are the operational variables of the environment?

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Political
Military
Economic
Social
Infrastructure
Information
Physical geography
Time
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What are the mission variables on the environment?

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Mission
Enemy
Terrain and weather
Troops
Time available
Civil considerations
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What are the civilian considerations?

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Areas
Structures
Capabilities
Organizations
People
Events
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What are the variables of terrain?

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Obstacles
Avenues of approach
Key terrain
Observation and fields of fire
Cover and concealment
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What are the four steps to IPB?

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Define the operational environment
Describe the effects of the environment
Evaluate the threat
Determine threat courses of action

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What are the troop leading procedures?

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Receive the mission
Issue the WARNO
Make a tentative plan
Start necessary movement
Reconnoiter
Complete the plan
Issue the OPORD 
Supervise and refine
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What are the characteristics of the offense?

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Surprise
Concentration
Audacity
Tempo

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What are the combat formations?

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

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Envelopment
Flank attack
Frontal attack
Turning movement
Penetration
Infiltration
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What are the forms of contact?

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Visual
Indirect
Direct
Obstacles
CBRN
Aircraft
Non-hostile
Electronic warfare
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What are the characteristics of the defense?

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Disruption
Flexibility
Security
Preparation
Operations in depth
Maneuver
Mass and concentration
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What are the forms of defense?

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Defense of a linear obstacle
Perimeter defense
Reverse slope defense

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What are the defensive tasks?

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Area defense
Mobile defense
Retrograde

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What are the types of retrograde?

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Delay
Withdrawal
Retirement

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What are the types of battle positions?

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Primary
Alternate
Subsequent
Supplementary
Strong point
22
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What are the types of reconnaissance?

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Zone
Area
Route
Recon in Force
Special Recon
23
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What are the types of security operations?

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Screen
Guard
Cover
Area security
Local security
24
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What are the steps to course of action development?

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Analyze relative combat power
Generate options
Array forces
Develop a broad concept
Assign responsibilities
Prepare the COA sketch/statement
25
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What are the fundamentals of urban operations?

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Perform focused information operations
Conduct close combat
Avoid the attrition approach
Control the essential
Minimize collateral damage
Separate combatants from noncombatants
Restore essential services
Preserve critical infrastructure
Understand the human dimension
Transition control
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What are the phases of a deliberate attack?

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Reconnoiter
Move
Isolate
Secure a foothold
Clear an urban area
C&R
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Q

What are the breaching fundamentals?

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Suppress
Obscure
Secure
Reduce
Assault
28
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How do you organize for a breach?

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Support, breach, and assault elements

29
Q

What are the steps to assault a strongpoint?

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Reconnoiter
Move
Isolate
Attack to seize a foothold
Exploit the penetration and clear the objective
30
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What are the types of isolation?

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Physical
Direct fire
Indirect fire
Observation
Combination
31
Q

What are the elements of an insurgency?

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Mass base
Guerrillas
Underground
Auxiliaries
Leadership
32
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What are the phases of an insurgency?

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Latent and incipient
Guerrilla warfare
War of movement

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What are the objectives of an insurgent?

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Overthrow the existing government
Expel outsiders or occupiers
Maintain a region where there is little or no government

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What are the strategies of an insurgency?

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Urban
Military-focused
Protracted popular war
Identity-focused
Conspiratorial
Composite/coalition
35
Q

What is targeting?

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The process of selecting and prioritizing targets and matching the appropriate process considering operational requirements and capabilities

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Q

What is decisive action?

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Sustainable land operations through the simultaneous combination of offensive, defensive, and stability operations

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Q

What is the sequence for offensive operations?

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Gain and maintain enemy contact
Disrupt the enemy
Fix the enemy
Maneuver
Follow through
38
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What are the four steps of actions on contact?

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Deploy and report
Evaluate and develop the situation
Choose a COA
Execute the selected COA

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Q

What is the overall purpose of defensive operations?

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To defeat an enemy attack and gain the initiative for offensive operations

40
Q

What are the steps to engagement area development?

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ID EN AoA
ID EN SoM
Determine where to kill
Emplace obstacles
Place direct fire weapon systems
Plan IDF
Rehearse
41
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What are the elements of combat power?

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Warfighting functions, leadership, and information

42
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What are centers of gravity?

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Source of power that provides moral or physical strength, freedom of action, or will to act

43
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What are lines of effort?

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A line that links multiple tasks using the logic of purpose rather than geographical reference to focus efforts towards establishing operational and strategic conditions

44
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What are lines of operation?

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A line that defines the directional orientation of the force in time and space in relation to the enemy and that links the force with its base of operations and objectives

45
Q

What is the decisive point?

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The geographic place or specific key event that when acted upon allows commanders to gain a marked advantage over an adversary

46
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What are the purposes of the offense?

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  • defeat destroy or neutralize the enemy force
  • Secure decisive terrain
  • deprive the enemy of resources
  • gain information
  • deceive and divert the enemy
  • hold the enemy in position
  • disrupt the enemy’s attack
  • set the conditions for future successful operations
47
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What are the purposes of the defense?

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  • create conditions for counteroffensive
  • regain the initiative
  • retain decisive terrain or deny to the enemy
  • attrit or fix the enemy as a prelude to the offensive
  • response to surprise action by the enemy
  • increase the enemy’s vulnerability
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What are the fundamentals of reconnaissance?

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  • ensure continuous recon
  • do not keep recon assets in reserve
  • orient on the recon objective
  • Report information rapidly and accurately
  • retain freedom of maneuver
  • gain and maintain enemy contact
  • develop the situation rapidly
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What are the techniques for recording wargaming?

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Sketch note

Sync matrix

50
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What are the methods for wargaming?

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Belt
Box
Avenue in depth

51
Q

What are the elements of the commander’s reconnaissance guidance?

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Focus
Tempo
Engagement Criteria

52
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What are the different reconnaissance objectives?

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(TITS)
Threat
Infrastructure
Terrain
Society
53
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What are the steps of the risk management process?

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  • identify hazards
  • assess hazards to determine risk
  • develop controls and make risk decisions
  • implement controls
  • supervise and evaluate

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