Warfighting

Question 1

What is the definition of war?

Answer 1

The violent clash of interests between or among organized groups characterized by the use of military.

Question 2

What are the 3 levels of war?

Answer 2

Stategic, Operational, & Tactical

Question 3

What links tactical level to the strategic level?

Answer 3

Operational Level

Question 4

What is the lowest level of war?

Answer 4

Tactical level

Question 5

What is the highest level of war?

Answer 5

Strategic level

Question 6

What must war serve?

Answer 6

Policy

Question 7

What is maneuver warfare?

Answer 7

Attempts to attack the problem from a position of advantage by circumventing the mass of force & attacking the system.

Question 8

What is Attrition warfare?

Answer 8

The basic essence of pitting strength against strength, attacking the problem head on.

Question 9

What is combat power?

Answer 9

Total destructive force of our will we can bring to bear on our enemy.

Question 10

Define surface

Answer 10

Hard part of an enemy (i.e., Mass troops)

Question 11

Define gap

Answer 11

Enemies weakness (i.e. lack of training)

Question 12

Define Center of Gravity

Answer 12

One strength that provides power to the enemy allowing them to impose their will (i.e. armored vecs).

Question 13

Define critical vulnerability

Answer 13

one weakness that allows us to defeat the enemy system by circumventing the center of gravity.

Question 14

Define combined arms

Answer 14

The full interaction of arms in such a way that to counteract one, the enemy must become more vulnerable to another.

Question 15

What is Commanders intent?

Answer 15

Centralized vision or “long term contract” that allows subordinates to understand the reason, or the larger context of the operation harmonizing their actions to the overall effort.

Question 16

Define “Essence of war”

Answer 16

Violent struggle between 2 hostile indepentdent & irreconcilable wills, each trying to impose itself on the other.

Question 17

What does maneuver warfare seek to do?

Answer 17

Seeks to shatter the enemy’s cohesion through rapid, focused and unexpected actions which create a chaotic situation with which the enemy cannot cope.

Question 18

What is central to maneuver warfare?

Answer 18

Firepower

Question 19

What is necessary to keep the enemy off balance?

Answer 19

Speed

Question 20

What is essential element to maneuver warfare?

Answer 20

Surprise

Question 21

Describe Spectrum of Conflict

Answer 21

The method in which the Marine Corps prepares to any level of war and how to respond to any situation (i.e., MOOTW to all out war)

Question 22

What is the goal of the defense?

Answer 22

To maintain the status quo of the current situation

Question 23

What is the goal of the offense?

Answer 23

To advance change from the current situation

Question 24

What is the most important task for a military to conduct in preparing for war?

Answer 24

Training

Question 25

What is the basis for training?

Answer 25

Doctrine which outlines the fundamental concepts & principles for the conduct of war.

Question 26

What is important to remember about doctrine

Answer 26

It is principle based, not prescriptive, and requires critical thought by our leaders.

Question 27

What are some of the intangible training factors that units tend to ignore?

Answer 27

planning, human factors, emotional, psychological, and concept training

Question 28

Training must duplicate what?

Answer 28

Realistic battle situations as much as possible allowing for training in the intangibles as well as the tangibles i.e., tactics, equipment, PT).

Question 29

Desribe Orienting on the ememy?

Answer 29

studying, analyzing, and forming reasonable predictions about the enemy.

Question 30

What is the purpose of Orienting on the ememy?

Answer 30

familiarize ourselves on how the enemy’s system operates in preparation and execution, identifying the unique characteristics that make the enemy’s “system” function.

Question 31

What does it allow us to do as warfighters?

Answer 31

allows us to identify ways to penetrate, control, or destroy the key components by identifying the critical vulnerability that will render the center of gravity ineffective.

Question 32

Describe Philosophy of Command during the exploitation phase of the enemy

Answer 32

Empowers subordinates to act on | their own initiative.

Question 33

How does the comanders accomplish this?

Answer 33

Accomplishes by communicating a clear centralized vision to subordinates after the exploitation of the enemy is envisioned.

Question 34

What is Mission Tactics?

Answer 34

Assigning a mission to a subordinate without telling them how to accomplish it.

Question 35

What is Main Effort?

Answer 35

Commander’s “bid for success” and therefore is focused on striking the enemy’s critical vulnerability.

Question 36

What does the main effort describe?

Answer 36

Describes both an element and an action, recognized as the most critical action to be taken to defeat the enemy.

Question 37

What are the 8 dynamics of the battlefield?

Answer 37

Friction, Uncertainty, Fluidity (everchanging), Disorder, Complexity, Human Dimension, Violence & Danger, Physical, Moral & Mental Forces

Question 38

What are the 4 types of friction?

Answer 38

Mental (indecision), Physical enemy obstacles), External (weather), and Internal (self induced)

Question 39

Describe Uncertainty

Answer 39

Fog of War

Question 40

Describe Fluidity

Answer 40

constantly changing situations.

Question 41

Describe Disorder

Answer 41

an environment of friction, uncertainty, and fluidity. Plans that will go awry

Question 42

What is Complexity?

Answer 42

War is not a conflict between two individuals, but between forces consisting of many individuals. War emerges from the collective behavior of the individual parts and players responding to local conditions. No one commander can control every aspect of war.

Question 43

What is the Human Dimension?

Answer 43

The human emotional & physical capacity that we will be expected to operate in the face of fear of our own mortality, sorrow of losing a peer, collective friction, exhaustion, lack of sleep, etc.

Question 44

What are Physical, Moral, and Mental factors?

Answer 44

Physical (men & material), Moral (nations resolve), Mental (intangible factors which hinders our will to fight the enemy)