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Define Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures “TTP”

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Tactics: is the employment of units in combat

Techniques: are the general and detailed methods used by troops and commanders to perform assigned missions and functions.

Procedures: are standard and detailed courses of action that describe how to perform tasks

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Define doctrine

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Army doctrine is a body of thought on how army forces intend to operate as an integral part of a joint force.

-fundamentals by which army forces conduct operations

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Define tactics:

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Tactics are the employment of units in combat.

It includes the ordered arrangement and manuever of units in relation to each other, the terrain and the enemy to translate potential combat power into victorious battles and engagements

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A tactician must understand and master the:

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  1. The science of tactics

2. The art of tactics

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The art of tactics consist of 3 interrelated aspects.

What are they?

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  1. The creative way to accomplish assigned missions.
  2. Decision making under adverse conditions
  3. Understanding the affects of combat on the soldier
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Science of tactics:

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Encompasses the understanding of those military aspects of tactics-capabilities, techniques, and procedures that can be measured and codified.

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What is unified action?

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Unified action is the synchronization, coordination, and/or integration of the activities of governmental and non governmental entities with military operations to achieve unity of effort.

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The unified action partners include….

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  1. Joint forces
  2. Multi national forces
  3. US government agencies
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What is the army’s role?

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Unified land operations

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What is the unified land operations goal?

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Apply land power as part of a unified action to defeat the enemy on land and establish conditions that achieve commanders end state

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What is the central idea of unified land operations?

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The central idea of ULO is how the army seizes, retains, and exploits the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage, and create conditions favorable for conflict resolution

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What are the foundations of ULO?

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  1. Excited through DECISIVE ACTION
  2. By means of ARMY CORE COMPETENCIES
  3. Guided by MISSION COMMAND
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Unified land operations begin and end with the ______ and ________ initiative.

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  1. Individual and operational
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Decisive actions include what 4 operations:

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2.
3.
4.

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  1. Offense
  2. Defense
  3. Stability
  4. Defense support of civil authorities “DSCA”
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Define offensive task

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An offensive task is a task conducted to defeat and destroy enemy forces and seize terrain, resources, and population centers

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What are defensive tasks?

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A defensive task is a task conducted to defeat an enemy attack, gain time, economize forces, and develop conditions favorable for offensive stability tasks

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Define stability tasks

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Means encompassing various military missions, tasks, and activities conducted outside the United States in coordination with other national powers to maintain or provide a safe and secure environment, emergency infrastructure reconstruction and humanitarian relief

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Define defense support of civil authorities

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DSCA is a task that only takes place in the homeland, although some of its tasks are similar to stability tasks.

It is also always conducted in support of another primary or lead federal agency

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Unified land operations is executed through ________ by means of _______ and guided by__________

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  1. Decisive action
  2. Army core competencies
  3. Mission command
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What are the operations structure tenets?

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  1. Flexibility
  2. Integration
  3. Lethality
    4 adaptability
  4. Depth
  5. Synchronization
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What is the operational art?

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Linking tactical actions to strategic objectives

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What are the 3 things that make up the operations structure?

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  1. Operations process (plan)
  2. Operational framework (decisive, shaping, sustaining)
  3. War fighting functions
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Define combat power

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Combat power is the total means of destructive, constructive, and information capabilities that a military unit can apply at a given time.

Army forces generate combat power by converting potential into effective action

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What are the 8 elements of combat power?

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  1. Leadership
  2. Information
  3. Movement and manuever
  4. Intelligence
  5. Fires
  6. Sustainment
  7. Mission command
  8. Protection
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Commanders apply combat power through the war fighting functions using ________ and _______

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Leadership and information

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Commanders apply leadership through __________

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Mission command

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______ enables commanders at all levels to make informed decisions on how to apply combat power

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Information

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Define mission command

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Mission command encourages the greatest possible freedom of action from subordinates.

While the commander remains the central figure in mission command, it enables subordinates to develop the situation.

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Movement and manuever include the 8 following tasks:

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  1. Deploy
  2. Move
  3. Manuever
  4. Employ direct fires
  5. Occupy an area
  6. Conduct mobility and counter mobility operations
  7. Conduct recon and surveillance
  8. Employ battlefield obscuration
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Define intelligence in warfighting functions

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Means understanding threats, adversaries, and weather

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Define fires in warfighting functions

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Army fire systems deliver fires in support of offensive and defensive tasks to create lethal/non lethal effects on target

Include the following tasks:
Deliver fires
Integrate all forms of join, army fires
Conduct targeting

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Define sustainment in warfighting functions

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The endurance of army forces is primarily a function of their sustainment.

Includes the following tasks:
Conduct logistics
Provide personnel services
Provide health service support

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Define protection in warfighting functions

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It enables the commander to maintain the forces integrity and combat power.

It also determines the degree to which potential threats can disrupt operations and the counters or reduces those threats