Foundation Ulo

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What is ULO?

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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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ULO is the Army's....?

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Basic warfighting doctrine and contribution to Unified Action

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What is Unified Action

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Synchronization, coordination, or integration of the activities of governmental and non-governmental entities with military operations to achieve unity of effort

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What is Army Doctrine?

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a body of thought on how Army forces operate as an integral part of a joint force

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Is doctrine a set of fixed rules

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NO

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Army doctrine establishes....?

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The Army’s view of the nature of operations, Fundamentally how the Army conducts operations, The method by which commanders exercise Mission, Command

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Army forces are employed within a strategic context defined by the specific....?

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Operational Environment (OE), character of the friendly forces, and the character of the threat

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What are the Levels of war?

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Strategic, Operational, and Tactical

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What is the strategic level of war?

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national and multinational security objectives (DIME)

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What is the tactical level of war?

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the level of war at which battles and engagements are planned and executed (METT-TC)

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What is the operational level of war?

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level at which campaigns and major operations are conducted (PMESII-PT)

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What is the Operational Enviornment OE?

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

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Define the Operations process?

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P2EA: plan, prepare, execute and assess

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In what terms do Army leaders plan, prepare, execute and assess the Operations process (OE)?

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In terms of the Operational and Mission Variables

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What do the Operational Variables consist of?

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PMESII-PT

Polictical, military, economic, social, information, infrastructure, physical enviornment and time.

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What does PMESII-PT do for an Army Leader?

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Builds situational understanding of the OE

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What does PMESII-PT do?

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Used to analyze and describe the OE

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What are the mission varaibles consist of?

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METT-TC

Mission, Enemy, terrian and weather, troops and support avail, time, civil considerations

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What does METT-TC filter?

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information categorized by the operations variable (PMESII-PT)

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METT-TC (mission varaible) is concerted with PMESII-PT (operations variable) to refine?

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A situational understanding of the Operating Environment (OE)

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Army forces are employed within a strategic context defined by the specific ________________, __________, and the _________________.

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Operations environment, friendly forces, character of threat

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Army leaders plan, prepare, execute, and assess operations by analyzing the OE in terms of?

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Operational and Mission Variables

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What are the Army’s two core competencies?

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Combined Arms Manuver, Wide area security

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The foundations of ULO are built on the following

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MAID:

Mission Command, Army core competencies, Initiative, Decisive Action

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To seize the initiative (setting and dictating the terms of action) Army Forces?

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degrade the enemy’s ability to function as a coherent force

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Army leaders then prevent the enemy’s recovery by retaining the initiative…How?

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Destroy enemy capabilities, Seize decisive terrain, Protect populations and infrastructure, Degrade the coherence of the enemy force

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U.S. operations must be

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rapid, unpredictable, and disorienting

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Decisive Action is?

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The simultaneous combination of offensive, defensive, and stability operations/defense support of civil authorities appropriate to the mission and environment

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What is DATE?

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Decisive Action Training Environment

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What is offensive?

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operations conducted to defeat and destroy enemy forces and seize terrain, resources, and population centers

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What is defensive?

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operations conducted to defeat an enemy attack, gain time, economize forces, and develop conditions favorable for offensive and stability tasks

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What is stability?

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military missions, tasks, and activities conducted outside the U.S. to maintain or reestablish a safe and secure environment and to provide essential services, infrastructure reconstruction, and humanitarian relief

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What is DSCA

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Defense Support of Civil Authorities, represents DOD support to U.S. civil authorities for domestic emergencies, law enforcement support, and other domestic activities

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What is mission command?

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the exercise of authority and direction by the commander using mission orders to enable disciplined initiative within the commander’s intent to empower agile and adaptive leaders in the conduct of unified land operations.

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How is mission command accomplished?

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Through the application of the Army’s core competencies combined arms maneuver and wide area security

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Mission Command emphasizes

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A fluid mix of offensive, defensive, and stability ops Individual initiative within the commanders intent
Leaders who can adapt and anticipate changing conditions

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What is Combined Arms Maneuver

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An army core competency: the application of the elements of combat power in unified action to defeat enemy ground forces; to seize, occupy, and defend land areas; and to achieve physical, temporal, and psychological advantages over the enemy to seize and exploit the initiative.

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What is the purpose of Combined Arms Maneuver?

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Exposes enemy to friendly combat power from unexpected directions Prevents an effective enemy response

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What is Wide area security?

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An army core competency: the application of the elements of combat power in unified action to protect populations, forces, infrastructure, and activities

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What is the purpose of wide area security?

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Deny the enemy positions of advantage
Consolidate gains IOT retain the initiative

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What are the elements of combat power?

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leadership, information, movement and manuever, intelligence, fires, sustainment, protection

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The foundations of ULO are built on what?

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Initiative, Decisive Action, Mission Command, and the Army's core competencies

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_________ is described as; operations conducted to defeat and destroy enemy forces and seize terrain, resources, and population centers

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Offensive Operations

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__________ is described as; the application of the elements of combat power in unified action to protect populations, forces, infrastructure, and activities

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Wide Area Security

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Army Campaigns and Operations are characterized by the following tenets of ULO

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FILADS
Flexibility, Integration, Lethality, Adaptability, Depth, Synchronization

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what is a Campaign

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

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what is a operation

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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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What is flexibility in FILADS?

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CDR's employ a versatile mix of cap/formations/equip

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What is integration in FILADS?

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Exercising IIA with UA partners

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What is Leathalitly in FILADS

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Physical destruction; org, train, equip, and employ force

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What is adaptability in FILADS?

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Critical thought, acceptable risk, continuously adjust

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What is depth in FILADS?

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The extension of op's in time, space, and purpose

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What is synchornization in FILADS?

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The arrangement of military action in T/S/P

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The operations process is;

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Commander-centric Informed by Mission Command approach to: P2EA, Conceptually driven, sequential and simultaneous

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what is CONOP

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concept of operations

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What are the 3 frameworks needed in order to articulate the CONOP

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Deep – Close – Security
Decisive – Shaping – Sustaining
Main and Supporting Effort

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What is the deep framework?

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Involve efforts to disrupt uncommitted enemy forces
Reserves/long-range cannon/rocket fires

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What is the close framework?

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Involve efforts to have immediate effects with committed friendly forces
Destroy an enemy force, seize terrain, disrupt an insurgent cell, or secure a local population

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What is the security framework?

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Involve efforts to provide early and accurate warning of enemy operations and provides the force with time and maneuver space within which to react to the enemy
Retain freedom of action and ensure uninterrupted support or sustainment of all operations

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What is decisive operations?

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The operation that directly accomplishes the mission.

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What is shaping operations?

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An operation at any echelon that creates and preserves conditions for the success of the decisive operation

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What is sustaining operations?

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An operation at any echelon that enables the decisive operation or shaping operations by generating and maintaining combat power

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What is the main effort?

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the designated subordinate unit whose mission at a given point in time is most critical to overall mission success

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What is supporting effort?

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designated subordinate units with missions that support the success of the main effort

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Main and supporting efforts are?

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More simplistic framework than other organizing frameworks

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Main and supporting efforts focus on?

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prioritizing effort among subordinate units

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Can main and supporting efforts be used with other frameworks?

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Yes

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What are warfighting functions?

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a group of tasks and systems (people, organizations, information, and processes) united by a common purpose that commanders use to accomplish missions.

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what are the tasks in the warfighting functions?

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Mission command, movement and maneuver, intelligence, fires, proection, sustainment

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An ___________ is described as; 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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operation

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What are the tenets of ULO?

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Flexibility, Adaptability, Integration, Lethality, Depth, and Synchronization

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This Operation creates and preserves conditions for the success of the decisive operation?

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Shaping

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__________ is the designated subordinate unit whose mission at a given point in time is most critical to overall mission success?

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main effort