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What ADP/ADRP covers Unified Land Operations?
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ADP/ADRP 3-0.
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What is the description of Unified land operations?
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Unified land operations describes how the Army seizes, retains, and exploits the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage in sustained land operations through simultaneous offensive, defensive, and stability operations in order to prevent or deter conflict, prevail in war, and create the conditions for favorable conflict resolution.
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What are the operational variables?
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The operational variables consist of political, military, economic, social, information, infrastructure, physical environment, time (known as PMESII-PT).
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What are the mission variables?
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The mission variables consist of mission, enemy, terrain and weather, troops and support available, time available, civil considerations (known as METT-TC).
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What is the is the Army’s warfighting doctrine?
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Unified land operations .
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What is a series of related major operations aimed at achieving strategic and operational objectives within a given time and space?
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A campaign.
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What is a military action, consisting of two of more related tactical actions, designed to achieve a strategic objective, in whole or in part?
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An operation.
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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?
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A tactical action.
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How are Army operations characterized?
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Army operations are characterized by flexibility, integration, lethality, adaptability, depth, and synchronization.
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What is Operational Art?
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Operational art is the pursuit of strategic objectives, in whole or in part, through the arrangement of tactical actions in time, space, and purpose.
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What is MDMP?
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The military decision-making process.
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What is the purpose of MDMP?
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It integrates the activities of the commander, staff, subordinate headquarters, and other partners to understand the situation and mission; develop, analyze, and compare courses of action; decide on a course of action that best accomplishes the mission; and produce an operation order or order for execution.
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What ADP/ADRP covers Special Operations?
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ADP/ADRP 3-05.
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What factors determine the employment of special operations forces?
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• National policy
• Geographic combatant commander requirements • Joint force commander requirements • Ambassador requirements • The character of the operational environment • The nature of the threat |
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What are the Special Operations core principles?
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• Discreet
• Precise • Scalable operations |
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What are the 12 Special Operations Force imperatives?
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• Understand the operational environment
• Recognize political implications • Facilitate military and interagency activities • Engage the threat discriminately • Anticipate long-term effects • Ensure legitimacy and credibility • Anticipate and control psychological effects • Operate with and through others • Develop multiple options • Support long-term engagement • Provide sufficient intelligence • Balance security and synchronization |
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What will increase the effectiveness of shaping activities and improve execution of counterterrorism and irregular warfare?
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Interdependence between special operations forces and conventional forces.
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What critical capabilities represent the core of America’s unique Army special operations capabilities?
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• Special warfare
• Surgical strike |
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What ADP/ADRP covers Stability?
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ADP/ADRP 3-07.
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What is Stabilization?
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Stabilization is a process in which personnel identify and mitigate underlying sources of instability to establish the conditions for long-term stability.
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What is the focus of stability tasks?
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• Identifying and targeting the root causes of instability.
• Building the capacity of local institutions. |
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What are sources of instability?
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• Decreased support for the government based on what locals actually expect of their government.
• Increased support for anti-government elements. • The undermining of the normal functioning of society where the emphasis must be on a return to the established norms. |
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What are Stability tasks?
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Stability tasks are tasks conducted as part of operations outside the US in coordination with other instruments of national power to maintain or reestablish a safe and secure environment and provide essential governmental services, emergency infrastructure reconstruction, and humanitarian relief.
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What are the principles that lay the foundation for long-term stability?
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• Conflict transformation.
• Unity of effort. • Legitimacy and host-nation ownership. • Building partner capacity. |
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What is a line of effort?
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A line of effort is a line that links multiple tasks using the logic of purpose rather than geographical reference to focus efforts toward establishing operational and strategic conditions.
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What is a decisive point?
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A decisive point is a geographic place, specific key event, critical factor, or function that, when acted upon, allows commanders to gain a marked advantage over an adversary or contribute materially to achieving success.
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What is a stability mechanism?
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A stability mechanism is the primary method through which friendly forces affect civilians in order to attain conditions that support establishing a lasting, stable peace.
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What is a defeat mechanism?
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A defeat mechanism is the method through which friendly forces accomplish their mission against enemy opposition.
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