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Army is built upon an ethos of trust. What are four other essential characteristics of our profession?
Military expertise, honorable service, esprit de corps, and stewardship.
In which domains do U.S. forces operate?
Air, land, maritime, space, and cyberspace domains.
11 Primary Missions of the U.S. Armed Forces?
- Counter terrorism and irregular warfare.
- Deter and defeat aggression.
- Counter weapons of mass destruction.
- Operate in cyberspace
- Operate effectively in space.
- Provide a stabilizing presence.
Title 10, USC, establishes the basic structure of the Army. What Forces make up the Army?
Regular Army
Reserves
National guard
Army civilians
What is the function of the Operating Force?
units organized, trained, and equipped to deploy and fight.
What is the function of the Generating Force?
mans trains, equips, deploys ensures the readiness of all Army forces.
What five sets of characteristics will enhance the Army’s operational adaptability?
- Depth and Versatility.
- Adaptive and Innovative.
- Flexibility and Agility.
- Integrated and Synchronized.
- Lethal and Discriminate.
Who is the principal audience for ADP 1-02, Operational Terms and Military Symbols?
All members of the profession of arms.
What are the three areas of focus of the professional language of land warfare?
- Principle of Simplicity.
- Importance of clear communication.
- Importance of teaching the language.
framed and unframed. What is the difference?
Framed-unit, equipment, installation, and activity symbols.
Unframed -control measure and tactical task mission symbols.
That common operational picture is displayed on a map or another geographical form representing the area of operations and which has been overlaid with military symbols. What does it include?
- Friendly and enemy units or ships.
- Boundaries.
- Control measures.
- Other elements that the commander deems necessary.
Why does the Army synchronizes its intelligence efforts with unified action partners?
To achieve unity of effort and to meet the commander’s intent.
What is ISR?
Intelligence
surveillance
reconnaissance.
What are the information collection tasks?
- Plan requirements and assess collection.
- Task and direct collection.
- Execute collection.
What are the intelligence core competencies?
- intelligence synchronization
- intelligence operations
- intelligence analysis.
What are the 4 primary means for information collection?
- Intelligence operations.
- Reconnaissance.
- Surveillance.
- Security operations.
What is the purpose of intelligence analysis?
To describe the current—and attempt to proactively assess—threats, terrain and weather, and civil considerations.
What is the description of Unified land operations?
- seizes,
- retains
- exploits
- gain and maintain a position of relative advantage
- sustained land operations through simultaneous
- offensive
- defensive
- stability operations
- prevent or deter conflict
- prevail in war
- create the conditions for favorable conflict resolution.
What are the operational variables?
- political,
- military
- economic
- social,
- information
- infrastructure, physical environment, time (known as PMESII-PT).
What are the mission variables?
- mission
- enemy
- terrain
- weather,
- troops
- support available, time available, civil considerations (known as METT-TC).
What is the is the Army’s warfighting doctrine?
Unified land operations .
What is a series of related major operations aimed at achieving strategic and operational objectives within a given time and space?
A campaign.
What is a military action, consisting of two of more related tactical actions, designed to achieve a strategic objective, in whole or in part?
An operation.
What is a battle or engagement, employing lethal or nonlethal actions, designed for a specific purpose relative to the enemy, the terrain, friendly forces, or other entity?
A tactical action.
