Unified Land Operations Flashcards
What is an Army Doctrine?
The fundamental principles by which the military forces or elements thereof guide their actions in support of national objectives. How Army forces intend to operate as part of a joint force and a statement of how the Army intends to fight.
What is Unified Land Operations?
The execution of offense, defense, stability, and defense support of civil authorities across multiple domains to shape operational environments, prevent conflict, prevail in large-scale ground combat, and consolidate gains as part of unified action.
What is an Operational Environment?
A composite of the conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the employment of capabilities and bear on the decisions of the Commander, human context, land operations, operational variables, and mission variables.
What are Operational Variables?
Aspects of an operational environment, both military and nonmilitary, that may differ from one operational area to another and affect operations.
What are Mission Variables?
Filtering the information from operational variables during mission analysis to refine their understanding of the situation.
What are the Six interrelated Mission Variables METT-TC?
M: Mission
E: Enemy
T: Terrain and weather
T: Troops and support available
T: Time available
C: Civil considerations
Define Large-scale Combat Operations?
The 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 a Campaign?
A series of related operations aimed at achieving strategic and operational objectives within a given time and space.
What is a Threat?
Any combination of actors, entities, or forces that have the capability and intent to harm United States forces, United States national interests, or the homeland.
What is an Enemy?
A party identified as hostile against which the use of force is authorized. An enemy is also called a combatant and is treated as such under the law of war.
What is a Hybrid Threat?
A diverse and dynamic combination of regular forces, irregular forces, terrorists, or criminal elements acting in concert to achieve mutually benefitting effects.
What is a Hazard?
A condition with the potential to cause injury, illness, or death of personnel; damage to or loss of equipment or property; or mission degradation.
What is the Army strategic role?
- Shape Operational Environments
- Prevent Conflict
- Prevail in Large-Scale Ground Combat
- Consolidate Gains
What is a Unified Action?
The synchronization, coordination, and/or integration of the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities with military operations to achieve unity of effort.
What is Unity of Effort?
The coordination and cooperation toward common objectives, even if the participants are not necessarily part of the same command or organization, which is the product of successful unified action.
