Large Scale Combat Operations (LSCO) Flashcards
(23 cards)
What ADP covers large scale operations?
FM 3-0
What is land power?
The ability by threat, force, or occupation to gain, sustain, and exploit control over land resources, and people.
What are the large-scale combat operations?
Extensive joint combat operations in terms of scope and size of forces committed conducted as a campaign aimed at achieving operational and strategic objectives.
What is the overall focus of army forces after large-scale combat operations have concluded?
Consolidating gains.
What is the army’s primary mission?
Organize, train, and equip forces to conduct prompt and sustained land combat operations.
During large-scale ground combat operations, Army forces focus on?
The defeat and destruction of enemy ground forces as part of the joint team.
What is consolidate gains?
Activities to make enduring any temporary operational success and to set the conditions for a sustainable security environment, allowing for transition of control to other legitimate authorities
What are unified action partners?
Those military forces, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and elements of the private sector with whom Army forces plan, coordinate synchronize, and integrate during the conduct of operations.
What is interagency coordination?
Interagency coordination is the interaction that occurs between agencies of the us government, including the department of defense for the purpose of achieving an objective.
What is interorganizational cooperation?
Interaction that occurs among elements of the department of defense; participating United States government departments and agencies; state, territorial, local, and tribal agencies
What is security cooperation?
All DOD interactions with foreign defense establishments to build defense relationships that promote specific US security interests, develop allied and friendly military capabilities for self-defense and multinational operations, and provide US forces with peacetime and contingency access to a host nation.
What is security force assistance?
DOD activities that support the development of the capacity and capability of foreign security forces and their supporting institutions.
What is a nongovernmental organization?
Private, self-governing, not for profit organization dedicated to alleviating human suffering; and for promoting education, health care, economic development, environmental protection, human rights, and conflict resolution.
What is multinational operations?
Collective term to describe military actions conducted by forces of two or move nations, usually undertaken within the structure of a coalition or alliance
What is an alliance?
A relationship that results from a formal agreement ( e.g., treaty ) between two or more nations for broad, long- term objectives that further the common interests of the members.
What is a coalition?
An arrangement between two or more nations for common action.
What are joint operations?
Military actions conducted by joint forces and those service forces in specified command relationship?
What is a joint force?
A general term applied to a force composed of significant elements, assigned or attached, of two or more military departments, operating under a single joint force commander.
What is end of state?
Set of required conditions that defines achievements of the commanders objectives.
What is a campaign?
Series of related operations.
What is a major operation?
A series of tactical actions conducted by combat forces of a single or several services, coordinated in time and space, to achieve strategic or operational objectives in an operational area. These actions are conducted simultaneously or sequentially in accordance with a common plan and are controlled by a single commander. JP 1-02.
What is an operation?
Sequence of tactical actions with a common purpose or unifying theme.
What is close combat?
Warfare carried out on land in a direct-fire fight, supported by direct and indirect fires and other assets.
