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Define Mission Command

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The Army’s approach to Command and Control that prioritizes subordinate decision making and decentralized execution appropriate to to the situation

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Principles of Mission Command

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Competence
Mutual Trust
Shared Understanding
Commander’s Intent
Mission Orders
Disciplined Initiative
Risk acceptance

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Define Command and Control

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The exercise of authroity and direction by a properly designated commander over assigned and attached forces in the accomplishment of the mission

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What is the Army’s framework for organizing and putting command and control into action

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The Operations Process

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What are the major command and control activities

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Planning, prepearing, executing, and continuosly assessing

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Who is the central figure in the operations process

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The Commander

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What are the six primary tasks of the Commander

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Understand, Visualize, Describe, Direct, Lead, and Assess

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What is the Commander’s Visualization

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The mental process of developing situational understanding, determining a desired end state, and envisioning an operational appraoch by which the force will achieve that end state

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How do Commander’s express their visualization

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Commander’s intent, planning guidance, CCIR, EEFI, CRG/CSG

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What is Commander’s Intent

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A clear andd concise expression of the purpose of the operation and the desired military end state that supports mission command and provides focus to the staff

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How does Commander’s Intent assist subordinate and supporting commanders

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By allowing them to achieve CDRs desired results without further orders, when the operation does not unfold as planned

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What 3 things do CDRs develop and personalize for their intent statement

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Expanded purpose, key tasks, end state

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What are key tasks

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Those significant activites the force must perform as a whole to achieve the desired end state

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Define the End State

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A set of desired future conditions the commander wants to exist when the operation concludes

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What are CCIR

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FFIR and PIR

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Define CCIR

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Specific information identified by the commander as being essential to facilitiate timely decision making

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Define PIR

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An intelligence requirement that the commander and staff need to understand teh threat and other aspects of the operational environment

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PIRs identify information about what considerations the CDR sees as most important

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Enemy, Terrain, Weather, and Civil consideration

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LTIOV is the primary plannning factor when

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Determinging the reconaissance tempo for information colection operations and will dictate the level of detail to be collected and the stealth required

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Define FFIR

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Information the commander and staff need to understand the status of friendly forces and supporting capabilities

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Define EEFI

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A critical aspect ofa. friendly operation, that if known by a threat would subsequently compromise, lead to failure, or limit success of the opartion and therefor should be protected from enemy detection

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Are EEFI CCIR

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No, but they have the same priority

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A CCIR is these 5 things

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  1. Specified by a specific commander for a specific operation
  2. Applicable only to the commander who specifies it (or their subordinates executing R+S tasks to support the CDR)
  3. Situation dependent, directly linked to a current mission or a decision that will create a new mission, branch, or sequel to the current mission
  4. Time-sensitive
  5. A design and planning requirement
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What does clear R+S guidane enable

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Freedom of action to develop the situation and adequate direction to ensure their organic Cavalry organizations can accomplish R+S objectives within the required timeframe

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CDRs R+S is nested with higher commander's intent - T/F
True
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What does CRG explain
Focus, reconnaissance tempo, and guidelines for engagement
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Where can CRG be found
In Annex L, Paragraph 3
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When does initial reconnaissance and security guidance get published
WARNORD 2
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Reconnaissance focus has four categories
Weather, Enemy/Threat, Terrain, and Civil
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What is the purpose of Reconnaissance Focus
To narrow the scope of tasks in order to get teh most important information to develop the situation for future operations
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What is the Recon Objective
The most important result desired from that specific reconnaissance effort
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How is a reconnaissance objective chosen
Based on PIRs which directly support the end state as defined in the commander's intent
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How does a reconnaissance objective guide operations
When a reconnaissance unit does not have time to accomplish all tasks with a specific reconnaissance form, it uses the reconnaissance objective to guide it in setting priorities
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What is reconnaissance tempo
The level of detail and level of aggressiveness required to accomplish reconnaissance operations
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Rapid and Deliberate Focus on
The level of detail
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What does sealthy and forceful describe
Level of aggressiveness
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What do commanders use to assist in determinig reconnaissance tempo | h
METTC-I
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In a rapid reconnaissance how many tasks do CDRs assign
The minimum number to accomplish the mission
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What is the limitation of rapid reconnaissance
A high risk to force due to reduced specificy and less detailed information about the operation environment
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How many tasks must be accomplished in a deliberate reconnaissance
All of them
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What are engagement criterea
Protocals taht specify those circumstances for initiating engagement with an enemy force
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What are the two variations of Engagement Criterea
Restrictive or Permisive
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How does the CDR decide on engagement criterea
Through METTC-I
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Define bypass criterea
Measures establsihed by higher echelon hjeadquarters that specify the codnitions and size under which enemy units and contact may be avoided
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What are disengagement criterea
Protocals that specify those circumstances where a friendly forces must break contact with direct and indirect fire to prevent decisive engagement
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What is decisively engaged
A fully committed force or unit that cannot maneuver or extricate itself
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What is security focus
What the Cavalry organization is to protect and why
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What are the four categories of CSG focus
Threat, terrain, civil, and friendly
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What does security focus allow commanders to determine
Specific tasks, their prirority, and their relation to the intent and end state
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What is the Security Objective
The most important result desired from the specific security effort
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What is the importance of articulating the duration of security operations
Method of establishing OPs, battle positions, length of UAS rotation and required logistical and communications support, and depth as time is needed to deploy propertly
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Two observation post styles
Short or Long duration
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Does the BCT and security force still need a plan to maintain contact with bypassed elements
Yes
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What are disengagement criterea often tied to
Planned transitions
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What are the Opeartional Variable
Political Military Economic Social Information Infrastructure Physical Envirionment Time
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Mission Variables are
Mission Enemy Terrain and Weather Troops and Support Available Time Available Civil Considerations
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What is planning
The art and science of understanding a situation, envisioning a desired future, and determining effective ways to bring that future about
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What is the MDMP
An iterative planning methodlogy to understand the situation and mission, develop a course of action, and produce an operation plan or order
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What are the 5 Steps of RDSP
1. Compare the current situation to the order 2. Make the determination that a decision is required and determine the type 3. Develop a course of action 4. Refine and validate the course of action 5. Issue and implement the order
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What are indicators
In intelligence usage, items of information that reflects the intention or capability of an enemy and/or adversary to adopt or reject a course of action
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What do SIRs facilitiate
Tasking by matching requirements to asset capabilitiy
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What are indicators | From FIgure 3-5
Positive or negative evidence of threat activity or any characteristic of the AO that points toward threat vulnerabilities, the adoption or rejection by the threat of a particualr activity, or that which may influence the friendly commander's secltion of a COA
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What is a decision point
A point in space and the latest time when the commander or staff anticipates making a key deision concenring a specific course of action
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A Decision Support Template is
A combined intelligence and operations graphic based on teh results of war-gaming that depicts decision points, timelines associated with mvoemnt of forces and the flow of the operation, and other key items of information required to execute a specifci friendly course of action
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What is a Decision Support Matrix
A written record of a war-gamed course of action that describes decision points and assocaited actions at those decision points
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What is Situational Understanding
The product of applying analsysi and jdugemtn to relevant information to determine the relationship among the operational and mission variables
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What is a NAI
Named Area of Interest - geospatial area or systems node or link against which information that will satsify a specific information requirement can be collected, usually to capture indications of adversary courses of action
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What is a TAI
Target Area of Interest. The geographical area where HVTs can be acquired and engaged by friendly forces
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