Unified Land Operations (ADP 3-0)

Question 1

What regulation covers Operations?

Answer 1

ADP 3-0

Question 2

What does ADP 3-0 cover?

Answer 2

Operations

Question 3

What are the operational variables?

Answer 3

PMESII-PT
Political, Military, Economic, Social, Information, Infrastructure, Physical environment, Time

Question 4

What are the mission variables?

Answer 4

METT-TC
Mission, Enemy, Terrain and weather, Troops and support, Time, Civil considerations

Question 5

What is the Army’s warfighting doctrine?

Answer 5

Unified Land Operations

Question 6

What is a campaign?

Answer 6

Series of related major operations aimed at achieving strategic and operational objectives within a given time and space.

Question 7

What is an operation?

Answer 7

A military action, consisting of two or more related tactical actions, designed to achieve a strategic objective, in whole or in part.

Question 8

What is a tactical action?

Answer 8

A battle or engagement, employing lethal or nonlethal actions, designed for a specific purpose relative to the enemy, terrain, or friendly forces.

Question 9

What is unified action?

Answer 9

The synchronization, coordination, and integration of the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities with military operations to achieve unity of effort.

Question 10

What are the Army’s four strategic roles?

Answer 10

Shape operational environments, Prevent conflict, Prevail in large-scale ground combat, Consolidate gains.

Question 11

What are unified land operations?

Answer 11

The simultaneous execution of offense, defense, stability, and defense support of civil authorities across multiple domains to achieve the Army’s strategic roles.

Question 12

What is MDMP?

Answer 12

Military Decision-Making Process

Question 13

What is operational art?

Answer 13

The pursuit of strategic objectives through the arrangement of tactical actions in time, space, and purpose.

Question 14

What is the operational environment?

Answer 14

A composite of conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the employment of capabilities and bear on the decisions of the commander.

Question 15

How are Army operations characterized?

Answer 15

F-DIALS. Flexibility, integration, lethality, adaptability, depth, and synchronization.

Question 16

What are two planning processes used in the Army?

Answer 16

MDMP Military decision making process, and TLPs Troop leading procedures.

Question 17

What are the two most challenging potential enemy threats to the US?

Answer 17

Nonstate entities, and nuclear-capable nation-states.

Question 18

What is decisive action?

Answer 18

The continuous, simultaneous execution of offensive, defensive, and stability operations or defense support of civil authority tasks.

Question 19

What is mission command?

Answer 19

Command and control that empowers subordinate decision making and decentralized execution appropriate to the situation.

Question 20

What are the fundamental principles of Mission Command?

Answer 20

Competence, Trust, Shared understanding, Commander’s intent, Mission orders, Disciplined initiative, Risk acceptance

Question 21

What is combined arms?

Answer 21

Synchronized and simultaneous application of arms to achieve an effect greater than if each element was used separately or sequentially.

Question 22

What is combat power?

Answer 22

The total means of destructive, constructive, and information capabilities that a military unit or formation can apply at a given time.

Question 23

What are the two Army Core Competencies?

Answer 23

Combined arms maneuver and wide area security

Question 24

What is wide area security?

Answer 24

Application of combat power to protect populations, forces, infrastructure, and activities; to deny the enemy positions of advantage; to retain the initiative by consolidating gains.

Question 25

What is the foundation of Unified Land Operations?

Answer 25

Mission command, initiative, and decisive action

Question 26

What are the Troop Leading Procedures?

Answer 26

RIMICCIS. Receive mission, issue warning order, make tentative plan, initiate movement, conduct recon, complete the plan, issue order, supervise, refine.

Question 27

What are the tenets of good operations?

Answer 27

Simultaneity, depth, synchronization, flexibility

Question 28

What is the Army’s operational concept?

Answer 28

Unified land operations

Question 29

What are the foundations of unified land operations?

Answer 29

Decisive action and mission command

Question 30

What are the principles of Army operations?

Answer 30

Mission command, Develop the situation through action, combined arms, adherence to law of war, establish and maintain security, create multiple dilemmas for the enemy.

Question 31

From the enemy’s point of view, what must US operations be?

Answer 31

Rapid, unpredictable, disorienting

Question 32

What is the central idea of Unified Land Operations?

Answer 32

To seize, retain, and exploit the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage

Question 33

What are the founding principles of Unified Land Operations?

Answer 33

Adaptability, Lethality, Flexibility

Question 34

What three provisions support the Operations Structure?

Answer 34

A broad process for conducting operations (Operations Process), Basic options for visualizing and describing operations (Operational Framework), Intellectual organization for common critical tasks (Combat Power)

Question 35

The specific operational environment of Army Forces is defined by what two characters?

Answer 35

The character of the friendly force, and the character of the threat

Question 36

What are the Mission Variables of the Operational Environment and what is the acronym used to remember them?

Answer 36

Mission, Enemy, Terrain and Weather, Troops and Support Available, Time Available, Civil Considerations The acronym is METT-TC

Question 37

True or False: No two operational environments are identical, even within the same theatre of operations.

Answer 37

True

Question 38

Effective Unified Action requires Army Leaders who can operate with their Unified Action Partners in what three ways?

Answer 38

Influence, Cooperate, Understand

Question 39

True or False: The Army depends on its joint partners for capabilities with unified action partners.

Answer 39

True

Question 40

Why are interorganizational efforts required Unified Actions?

Answer 40

To build the capacity of partners, To secure populations, To protect infrastructure, To strengthen institutions as a means of protecting common security interests

Question 41

What is Operational Initiative?

Answer 41

The setting of tempo and terms of action throughout an operation

Question 42

What are the 12 Principles of Joint Operations?

Answer 42

Objective, Offensive, Mass, Maneuver, Economy of force, Unity of command, Security, Surprise, Simplicity, Restraint, Perseverance, Legitimacy

Question 43

What are the six Warfighting Functions?

Answer 43

Command and Control, Movement and Maneuver, Intelligence, Fires, Sustainment, Protection

Question 44

True or False: Operational art is not associated with a specific echelon or formation, nor is it exclusive to theatre and joint force commanders.

Answer 44

True

Question 45

Planning is the art and science of understanding a situation, envisioning a desired future, and laying out effective ways of bringing about the future. What are two separate but interrelated components?

Answer 45

A conceptual component and a detailed component

Question 46

Describe Troop Leading Procedures.

Answer 46

A dynamic process used by small-unit leaders to analyze a mission, develop a plan, and prepare for an operation typically employed by organizations without staffs at the company level and below

Question 47

True or False: Decisive Operations lead directly to the accomplishment of a commander’s purpose.

Answer 47

True

Question 48

Describe Shaping Operations?

Answer 48

Operations that create and preserve conditions for success of the decisive operation