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Fundamental principles by which the military forces or elements thereof guide their actions in support of national objectives - it is authoritative but requires judgment in application
Doctrine
Security, Prosperity, Universal Values, and an International Order advanced by U.S. leadership
Enduring Interests
Efficient and effective use of the diplomatic, informational, economic, and military instruments of national power supported by and coordinated with those of our allies and various intergovernmental,
Non-governmental, and regional organizations
Fundamentals of Interagency Operations
Team warfare formed from the core of service skills that effectively integrates joint forces in a way that exposes no weak point or seams to an adversary
Fundamentals of Joint Warfare
Respect, rapport, knowledge of partners, patience
Fundamentals of Multinational Operations
Using each service‘s unique strengths, theory, and experiences to contribute to the larger task of determining the best way to accomplish a task as in integrated team
How Joint & Service Doctrine are related
Military actions to attack an adversary‘s information and related systems while defending our own
Information Operations
Diplomacy, information, military, and economy
Instruments of National Power
The cooperation and communication that occurs between agencies of the U.S. government, including the DOD, to accomplish an objective
Interagency Coordination
Fundamental principles that guide the employment of U.S. military forces in coordinated action toward a common objective
Joint Doctrine
A collective term to describe military actions conducted by forces of two or more nations, usually undertaken within the structure of a coalition or alliance
Multinational Operations
A document approved by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for distributing and applying military power to attain National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy objectives
National Military Strategy
A collective term encompassing both national defense and foreign relations of the United States
National Security
The President's principal forum for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and cabinet officials
National Security Council
A document approved by the President of the United States that expresses vision, what the U.S. stands for, and a sensing of how the instruments of national power will be arrayed
National Security Strategy
The application of creative imagination by commanders and staffs —supported by their skill, knowledge, and experience — to design strategies, campaigns, and major operations and organize and employ military forces
Operational Art
The conception and construction of the framework that underpins a joint operation plan and its subsequent execution
Operational Design
The level of war at which campaigns and major operations are planned, conducted, and sustained to achieve strategic objectives within theaters or other operational areas
Operational Level of War
The administration‘s mental image of the world
Origin of Policy
Considerations on how a job should be done to accomplish military goals
Purpose of Military Doctrine
Advise and assist the President on national security and foreign policies; and coordinate these policies among various government agencies
Purpose of the National Security Council (NSC)
Reflects service specific capabilities and guides the application of service forces
Service Doctrine
The level of war at which a nation, often as a member of a group of nations, determines national or multinational (alliance or coalition) strategic security objectives and guidance, and develops and uses
national resources to achieve these objectives
Strategic Level of War
The level of war at which battles and engagements are planned and executed to achieve military objectives assigned to tactical units or task forces
Tactical Level of War
Guidance that is directive and instructive
Tells what has to be done
Provides the choice to pursue certain avenues and not others
It is fluctuating
POLICY:
Defines how operations should be conducted to accomplish national Policy objectives. Strategy is the continuous process of matching ends, ways, and means to accomplish desired goals within acceptable levels of risk. Strategy originates in Policy and addresses broad objectives, along with the designs and plans for achieving them.
STRATEGY:
Which of the following does NOT explain Strategy?
-The How operations will be conducted to achieve national interests.
-Originates in policy
-Plan of action, matches a means to an end
-Guidance that is directive and instructive
Guidance that is directive and instructive
Now that you understand policy and strategy, what is Doctrine?
-It is authoritative, but also requires judgment
-Within military operations it can be expressed as rules of engagement defining what we can kill/not kill
-Fundamental principals the military forces use to guide their actions in support of national objectives
-Is based on the administrations mental image of the world
-It is authoritative, but also requires judgment
-Fundamental principals the military forces use to guide their actions in support of national objectives
What effect did the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act have on the National Security Strategy?
-Required The Secretary of Defense (SecDef) to produce a National Defense Strategy
-Required the President to report regularly to Congress and the American people on the National Security Strategy
-Required CJCS to outline the military‘s role in achieving national objectives or enduring interests
Required the President to report regularly to Congress and the American people on the National Security Strategy
Which of the following is NOT part of the process for determining National Security Strategy?
-What interests the nation has
-What priorities to place on those various interests
-What national instruments of power, (diplomatic, informational, military, and economic) are available and appropriate for achieving those interests
-What the military‘s role is in achieving national objectives or enduring interests
What the military‘s role is in achieving national objectives or enduring interests
How does the National Security Strategy (NSS), the National Defense Strategy (NDS), and the National Military Strategy (NMS) interrelate?
NMS must be consistent with NDS and NSS. For example a military strategy has to align with defense strategy and meet national objectives.
Commanders also use their Knowledge, Experience and Skills, or ___________, and considers _________________, things they cannot control, to decide on how to accomplish a task. The result of this process is a ________.
-Operational Art -Operational Design
-Doctrine -Policy
-Contextual Elements -Strategy
Commanders also use their Knowledge, Experience and Skills, or Operational Art, and considers Contextual Elements, things they cannot control, to decide on how to accomplish a task. The result of this process is a Strategy.
-Elements commanders have some degree of control over.
-Creative thinking by commanders to design and/or modify strategies.
-Something commanders take into account to develop how to achieve objectives; must be consistent with NDS and NSS. For example a military strategy has to align with defense strategy and meet national objectives.
What does this define?
OPERATIONAL ART
All of the following are keys to Operational Design EXCEPT:
-Understanding the strategic guidance by determining the end state and objectives
-Identifying the adversary’s principal strengths and weaknesses
-Developing an operational concept that will achieve strategic and operational objectives
-The use of creative thinking by commanders and staff
The use of creative thinking by commanders and staff
Which statement is correct concerning Operational Art?
-Ensures a certain amount of structure exists and that the Strategy a Commander uses fits into the larger national big picture
-Overhead guidance and structure that a Commander must follow
-Items a Commander has to consider
Items a Commander has to consider
What are Contextual Elements?
-Elements Commanders have little or no control over but must consider when devising a strategy
-Elements Commanders have some degree of control over
-Creative thinking by Commanders to design and/or modify strategies
Elements Commanders have little or no control over but must consider when devising a strategy
Why is it important for Commanders to consider Contextual Elements?
Contextual Elements such as ours and the enemy's political systems, the physical environment and the enemy's/our national leadership to name just a few are elements that the Commander has little or no control over, but MUST nonetheless take into account when devising a Strategy.
Fill in the blanks:
_________, Information, Economy, and ________
Diplomacy, Information, Economy, and military (or DIME)
Engaging other states, countries, or foreign groups.
Use it to advance values, interests, and objectives.
What does this define?
DIPLOMACY
Media is a conduit; it is supported via Information Operations, Public Affairs, and Defense Support to Public Diplomacy.
This narrative BEST describes the ________ instrument of national power.
-Diplomacy
-Information
-Economy
INFORMATION
Of the following uses of Information, which one does NOT affect the military?
-Press affects public opinion
-Media can restrict military operations
-Media can affect military budget
-Social media can affect information operations
Media can affect military budget
Choose characteristics of Economy:
-US Government facilitates production, distribution and consumption of worldwide goods and services.
-Starts with a strong US economy providing free access to global markets and resources
Use it to advance values, interests and objectives
-Drives general welfare and assists in a strong national defense. USG financial management ways and means support this.
-US Government facilitates production, distribution and consumption of worldwide goods and services.
-Starts with a strong US economy providing free access to global markets and resources
-Drives general welfare and assists in a strong national defense. USG financial management ways and means support this.
What is the purpose of the U.S. military?
fight and win the Nation's wars.
What is Joint Warfare?
-Combining service specific qualities into joint operations with partner military services and other defense, logistical, and intelligence agencies.
-Joint warfare is team warfare.
What are the advantages of the U.S. military participating in Multinational Operations?
-Underpin unified efforts to address 21st-century challenges
-Provide greater security than the United States could achieve independently
-To create confusion among the enemy by disguising our strategy
-The U.S. can disregard the political realities of the situation during multinational operations
-Underpin unified efforts to address 21st-century challenges
-Provide greater security than the United States could achieve independently
What are the two types of coordination are instrumental in reaching our national objectives?
-Foreign military forces and U.S. military
-Interagency and Interorganizational
-Interagency and U.S. military
-Interorganizational and foreign military forces
Interagency and Interorganizational
How would you describe the relationship among the Strategic, Operational, and Tactical Levels of War?
At the strategic level, a nation determines its strategic objectives and guidance and develops and uses national resources to achieve these objectives; the operational level links the tactical employment of forces to national and military strategic objectives; the tactical level focuses on planning and executing battles, engagements, and activities to achieve military objectives assigned to tactical units or task forces.
What level of war:
-How forces are employed, how engagements are conducted
-Individual missions
- focuses on planning and executing battles, engagements, and activities to achieve military objectives assigned to tactical units or task forces.
Tactical (Lowest)
What level of war:
-What the military will affect, with what courses of action, in what order, for what duration, and with what resources.
-Where campaigns and major operations are designed, planned, conducted, sustain, assessed, and adapted
- links the tactical employment of forces to national and military strategic objectives
Operational (Mid level)
What level of war:
-Why and with what the military will fight and why the enemy fights against the United States.
-Effects impair the adversary’s ability to carry out war or hostilities in general
-The nation determines its strategic objectives and guidance and develops and uses national resources to achieve these objectives
Strategic (overview / highest level)
Why is this information important to SNCOs?
-Helps Airmen understand how their actions contribute to achieving our nation's objectives
-Enables us to see where we fit into the bigger picture
-The SNCO's role in the National Military Strategy is instrumental in meeting the goals of the National Security
-Helps Airmen understand how their actions contribute to achieving our nation's objectives
-Enables us to see where we fit into the bigger picture
-The SNCO's role in the National Military Strategy is instrumental in meeting the goals of the National Security
CHOOSE; DOCTRINE, OPERATIONAL ART, POLICY, NATIONAL MILITARY STRATEGY, INFORMATION/MILITARY POWER

Set the difficult task of attaining strategic objectives:
NATIONAL MILITARY STRATEGY
CHOOSE; DOCTRINE, OPERATIONAL ART, POLICY, INFORMATION/MILITARY POWER

Protecting publicized media (communism); Consider other options besides military:
INFORMATION/MILITARY POWER
CHOOSE; DOCTRINE, OPERATIONAL ART, POLICY, INFORMATION/MILITARY POWER

One of the most important priorities was to stop the spread of communism :
POLICY
CHOOSE; DOCTRINE, OPERATIONAL ART, POLICY, INFORMATION/MILITARY POWER

Forces that arrived initially were trained in tactics and used equipment that weren’t designed for fighting the jungles and agricultural fields; use of helicopters as the preferred method for the movement of combat :
DOCTRINE
CHOOSE; DOCTRINE, OPERATIONAL ART, POLICY, INFORMATION/MILITARY POWER

Limited forces and required rethinking, commanders came up with different options to be successful:
OPERATIONAL ART
Identify the principle that correctly matches the given part of the scenario; Contextual Elements---Economic Power--Doctrine---Strategy---Military Power---Information Power---Policy---Diplomacy

One of the goals of the United States government was to prevent enemies from threatening our country, our allies, and our friends with weapons of mass destruction (WMD)...
POLICY
Identify the principle that correctly matches the given part of the scenario; Contextual Elements---Economic Power--Doctrine---Strategy---Military Power---Information Power---Policy---Diplomacy

Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had possession of and intended to use weapons of mass destruction (WMD)...
Contextual Elements
Identify the principle that correctly matches the given part of the scenario; Contextual Elements---Economic Power--Doctrine---Strategy---Military Power---Information Power---Policy---Diplomacy

Ambassadors are set to negotiate...
Diplomacy
Identify the principle that correctly matches the given part of the scenario; Contextual Elements---Economic Power--Doctrine---Strategy---Military Power---Information Power---Policy---Diplomacy

Military leaders were also asked to formulate methods to accomplish this important national goal and others using U.S. troops
STRATEGY
Identify the principle that correctly matches the given part of the scenario; Contextual Elements---Economic Power--Doctrine---Strategy---Military Power---Information Power---Policy---Diplomacy

Based on previous experience...
DOCTRINE
Identify the principle that correctly matches the given part of the scenario; Contextual Elements---Economic Power--Doctrine---Strategy---Military Power---Information Power---Policy---Diplomacy

Embargoes were put into effect to exert pressure...
ECONOMIC POWER
Identify the principle that correctly matches the given part of the scenario; Contextual Elements---Economic Power--Doctrine---Strategy---Military Power---Information Power---Policy---Diplomacy

Using U.S. troops...
MILITARY POWER
Identify the principle that correctly matches the given part of the scenario; Contextual Elements---Economic Power--Doctrine---Strategy---Military Power---Information Power---Policy---Diplomacy

Use the media to affect world opinion...
INFORMATION POWER
Identify the principle that correctly matches the given part of the scenario; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETANCE, CULTURE, CULTURAL RELATIVISM, DOMAINS OF CULTURE, ETHNOCENTRISM, MULTINATIONAL OPERATIONS, HOLISM, NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION, PARALANGUAGE, WORLDVIEW

Require the support of other nations...
Multinational Operations
given part of the scenario; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETANCE, CULTURE, CULTURAL RELATIVISM, DOMAINS OF CULTURE, ETHNOCENTRISM, MULTINATIONAL OPERATIONS, HOLISM, NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION, PARALANGUAGE, WORLDVIEW

The tendency to negatively judge other’s culture, beliefs, and values against one’s own:
ETHNOCENTRISM
given part of the scenario; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETANCE, CULTURE, CULTURAL RELATIVISM, DOMAINS OF CULTURE, ETHNOCENTRISM, MULTINATIONAL OPERATIONS, HOLISM, NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION, PARALANGUAGE, WORLDVIEW

Broad categories of cultural knowledge, beliefs, values, and behaviors :
DOMAINS OF CULTURE
given part of the scenario; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETANCE, CULTURE, CULTURAL RELATIVISM, DOMAINS OF CULTURE, ETHNOCENTRISM, MULTINATIONAL OPERATIONS, HOLISM, NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION, PARALANGUAGE, WORLDVIEW

The creation, maintenance, and transformation across generations of semi-shared patters:
CULTURE
given part of the scenario; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETANCE, CULTURE, CULTURAL RELATIVISM, DOMAINS OF CULTURE, ETHNOCENTRISM, MULTINATIONAL OPERATIONS, HOLISM, NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION, PARALANGUAGE, WORLDVIEW

When beliefs and practices of one culture may not agree with other cultures:
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
given part of the scenario; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETANCE, CULTURE, CULTURAL RELATIVISM, DOMAINS OF CULTURE, ETHNOCENTRISM, MULTINATIONAL OPERATIONS, HOLISM, NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION, PARALANGUAGE, WORLDVIEW

Collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or a group:
WORLDVIEW
given part of the scenario; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETANCE, CULTURE, CULTURAL RELATIVISM, DOMAINS OF CULTURE, ETHNOCENTRISM, MULTINATIONAL OPERATIONS, HOLISM, NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION, PARALANGUAGE, WORLDVIEW

The notion that all aspects of culture are connected to other aspects:
HOLISM
given part of the scenario; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETANCE, CULTURE, CULTURAL RELATIVISM, DOMAINS OF CULTURE, ETHNOCENTRISM, MULTINATIONAL OPERATIONS, HOLISM, NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION, PARALANGUAGE, WORLDVIEW

The use of time, distance, touch, and movement to convey meaning:
NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION
given part of the scenario; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETANCE, CULTURE, CULTURAL RELATIVISM, DOMAINS OF CULTURE, ETHNOCENTRISM, MULTINATIONAL OPERATIONS, HOLISM, NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION, PARALANGUAGE, WORLDVIEW

Ability to comprehend and appropriately and effectively act across cultural environments:
CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCE
given part of the scenario; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETANCE, CULTURE, CULTURAL RELATIVISM, DOMAINS OF CULTURE, ETHNOCENTRISM, MULTINATIONAL OPERATIONS, HOLISM, NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION, PARALANGUAGE, WORLDVIEW

Non-verbal elements of speech including tone, pitch, rate, and pauses :
PARALANGUAGE
Four-step sequence that helps one to gather information; compare that information to previous knowledge, develop courses of action, and take action and review the outcomes:
OODA LOOP
Extent to which the less powerful members of organizations and institutions (like the family) accept and expect that power is distributed unequally:
POWER-DISTANCE
Marrige, children, family size and structure, mating, decent, inheritance, residence, relations, etc.:
FAMILY AND KINSHIP
Categories, roles, identities, responsibilities, reproduction, labor, etc.:
SEX & GENDER
Origins, deities, worship, community, birth/death/life/afterlife, rules, rituals, etc:
RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY
Community, ethnic, regional, national, status/leadership, law, etc.:
POLITICAL & SOCIAL RELATIONS
Production, redistribution, accumulation, exchange, etc.:
ECONOMIC & RESOURCES
Orientation, purposes, measurement, relations, etc:
TIME & SPACE
Production, adoption, functions change, etc. :
TECHNOLOGY & MATERIAL
Creation, origins, ends, events, individuals, agency, etc :
HISTORY & MYTH
Food & drink production, distribution, collection, consumption, illness, healing, wellness, etc:
SUSTENANCE & HEALTH
Art, music, sport, clothing, adornment, rest, leisure, etc. :
AESTHETICS & RECREATION
Experiential, community, professional, formal, etc. :
LEARNING & KNOWLEDGE
Verbal & non-verbal, direct & indirect, high & low context, emotional & neutral, etc.:
LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION
A tendency in which the most meaningful definition of family is the nuclear family: parent(s) and child(ren):
INDIVIDUALISM
Culture, time is treated as cyclical, uncontrollable and / or naturally disorderly :
POLYCHRONIC
Cultures pay more attention to the explicit meaning of the verbal message :
LOW CONTEXT
Cultures tend to view time as something that is earned, saved, spent, or wasted:
MONOCHRONIC
SMSgt Stovall, the Maintenance Superintendent at an overseas location has just received word that her section must train several host nation aircraft maintainers. Shortly after the sessions begin, Stovall stops TSgt Brier, her most seasoned NCO and asks, “How’s the training going?” Frustrated Brier replies, “These host nation maintainers are just weird! Every time I try to communicate with them, they stand uncomfortably close. It makes training them unbearable and I don’t have time for group hugs and making friends-we are here to fix planes!”
TSgt Brier’s ______ will MOST likely ______ his effectiveness.
-Misunderstanding of communication styles associated with low context cultures; hinder
-Understanding of communication styles associated with low context cultures; enhance
-Misunderstanding of communication styles associated with high context cultures; hinder
-Understanding of communication styles associated with high context cultures; enhance
-Misunderstanding of communication styles associated with high context cultures; hinder
The following morning, SMSgt Stovall calls a meeting with her Airmen and asks, "So how’s the training going with our host nation maintainers?" A1C Dudley interjects, “They don’t even discipline like the rest of the world does. I saw Mr. Aker, their liaison slap one of his mechanics for not following the technical order…that isn’t right and I told him so
A1C Dudley's ______ will MOST likely ______ his effectiveness.
-Misunderstanding of communication styles associated with high context cultures; hinder
-Misunderstanding of communication styles associated with high context cultures; enhance
-Misunderstanding of cultural relativism; hinder
-Understanding of cultural relativism; enhance
Misunderstanding of cultural relativism; hinder
Later that afternoon, SMSgt Stovall joins her SSgts and TSgts in the break room. Again, she begins with some casual conversation and finally says, "I wanted to talk to you all about the training and the progress you’re making." TSgt Brier is the first to respond, I don’t think we made any progress at all! Whether it’s a family matter or some holiday, these locals are constantly reporting late for work- this is unacceptable!"
TSgt Brier’s ______ will MOST likely ______ his effectiveness.
-Misunderstanding of polychromic culture; hinder
-Misunderstanding of monochromic culture; enhance
-Misunderstanding of cultural relativism; hinder
-Understanding of cultural relativism; enhance
-Misunderstanding of polychromic culture; hinder
What year did congress pass the national security Act?
1947
What year did was the National Security Strategy announced in a state of the World Report?
1972
What year did the Goldwater-Nichols DOD Reorg Act pass that required the NSS?
1986
What year was the first NSS Published by the Reagan administration?
1987
What is the most important factor for determining what makes a person effective in a foreign culture?
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS make stronger contributions than language proficiency or prior interpersonal experience.
The technical term for the study of movement and gesture:
KINESICS
The study of how people perceive the use of time and how they structure it in their relationships:
CHRONEMICS
The study of the communicative effects of space or distance:
PROXEMICS
The functions, perceptions, and meanings of touch:
HAPTICS
High or Low context Cultures pay more attention to the message’s content and the verbal and nonverbal cues?
HIGH CONTEXT
___________ is a tendency in which the most meaningful definition of family is the nuclear family: parent(s) and child(ren)
INDIVIDUALISM
___________ culture, time is treated as cyclical, uncontrollable and/or naturally disorderly.
POLYCHRONIC
___________ cultures pay more attention to the explicit meaning of the verbal message.
LOW CONTEXT
___________ cultures tend to view time as something that is earned, saved, spent, or wasted.
MONOCHRONIC