Wocs Test 2-2 Flashcards

Front 1

What are the Army's two tactical planning processes?

Back 1

Troop Leading Procedures (TLP) and the Military Decision Making Process (MDMP).

Front 2

What are the two general categories of orders?

Back 2

Administrative and combat

Front 3

What do administrative orders cover?

Back 3

Admin operations in garrison or in the field. Ex.: General, specific, & memorandum orders; courts-martial orders; & bulletins, circulars, & other memoranda.

Front 4

What do combat orders cover?

Back 4

Operations and service support for these operations. They include OPORDs, service support orders, movement orders, WARNOs, & FRAGOs.

Front 5

What are the 12 characteristics of a good Operation Plan?

Back 5

1. Contain critical facts & assumptions;

2. Authoritative expression;

3. Positive expression;

4. Avoid qualified directives;

5. Balance;

6. Simplicity;

7. Brevity;

8. Clarity;

9. Completeness;

10. Coordination;

11. Flexibility;

12. Timeliness.

Front 6

Which of the following does NOT contain assumptions?

OPORDs, OPLANs, FRAGOs, or WARNOs?

Back 6

Assumptions are NOT stated in OPORDs.

Front 7

What are the two Army Field Manuals (FMs) that cover combat orders and TLPs?

Back 7

FM 5-0 The Operations Process

FM 7-8 Infantry Rifle Platoon and Squad

Front 8

Unit SOPs are NOT orders, but they are integral to the orders process. Why?

Back 8

SOPs enhance commander's effectiveness & flexibility because they detail how forces execute unit-specific techniques, procedures, and recurring actions.

Front 9

What are the 4 benefits of SOPs?

Back 9

1. Simplified brief combat orders

2. Enhanced understanding of teamwork among commanders, staff, and troops

3. Standard synchronized staff drills

4. Standard abbreviated or accelerated decision making techniques

Front 10

What is an Operation Order?

Back 10

An Operation Order is a directive issued by a commander to subordinate commanders for the purpose of effecting the coordinated execution of an operation.

Front 11

What do Operation Orders contain?

Back 11

Operation Orders contain the "Task Organization," express the "Commander's Intent," and contain the five paragraphs (5-Paragraph combat order format).

Front 12

What is "Task Organization"?

Back 12

Task Organization is a temporary grouping of forces designed to accomplish a specific mission.

Front 13

What is "Commander's Intent"?

Back 13

Commander's Intent is a clear, concise statement of what the force must do and the conditions the force must meet to succeed.

Front 14

What are the paragraphs in the 5-paragraph order?

Back 14

1. Situation

2. Mission

3. Execution

4. Service and Support

5. Command and Signal

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Front 15

What is significant about the Date Time Group (DTG) on an OPORD?

Back 15

The DTG on an OPORD/OPLAN is the effective date or "start time" for the OPORD.

Front 16

What part of the OPORD/OPLAN contains the who, what, when, where - but NOT the how?

Back 16

The MISSION paragraph.

Front 17

What part of the OPORD/OPLAN contains the commander's intent or the desired end state?

Back 17

The EXECUTION paragraph.

Front 18

What are Warning Orders?

Back 18

Waring Orders (WARNOs) are preliminary notices of orders or actions to follow.

Front 19

What are Fragmentary Orders?

Back 19

Fragmentary Orders (FRAGOs) is an abbreviated order form of an OPORD issued to change or modify a previously issued OPORD.

Front 20

How many steps are there in the Military Decision Making Process (MDMP)?

Back 20

7

Front 21

What are the steps in the Military Decision Making Process (MDMP)?

Back 21

1. Receipt of Mission

2. Mission Analysis

3. Course of Action (COA) Development

4. COA Analysis (Wargaming)

5. COA Comparison

6. COA Approval

7. Orders Production

Front 22

What are the specific components of considered COAs during COA development?
(Point emphasized in class by CW4)

Back 22

COAs must be:
suitable,
feasible,
acceptable,
distinguishable,
and complete

Front 23

What is the overlapping and non-sequential process used at the company level and below?

Back 23

Troop Leading Procedures (TLP)

Front 24

How many steps are there in the Troop Leading Procedures (TLP)?

Back 24

Eight

Front 25

What are the eight Troop Leading Procedure steps?

Back 25

1. Receive the mission

2. Issue a WARNO

3. Make a tentative plan

4. Initiate Movement

5. Conduct Reconnaissance

6. Complete the plan

7. Issue the order

8. Supervise and refine

Front 26

Upon receipt of the mission, what planning model should you use to assess the mission?

Back 26

METT-TC

Front 27

What is METT-TC?

Back 27

Mission
Enemy
Terrain & Weather
Troops
Time available
Civil Considerations

Front 28

When determining the proper allocation of time, what process should you use?

Back 28

Backwards planning.

Identify critical times specified by higher and work backwards from there.

Front 29

Ideally, how should you divide your time between your planning of the OPORD and subordinate planning/execution?

Back 29

1/3 time for your planning

2/3 time for subordinate planning and execution

Front 30

In Step 2 of the TLP (Issue a WARNO), what is the most important point to remember?

Back 30

Most important: Do not delay issuing the initial WARNO. Give subordinates as much time as possible to plan and prepare.

Front 31

What are specified, implied, and essential tasks?

Back 31

Specified, implied, and essential tasks are extracted from the WARNO and the OPORD.

Specified and implied tasks identify the essential tasks. These are tasks that must be completed to accomplish the mission.

Front 32

In Step 5 of the TLP (Conduct Reconnaissance), what is the minimum you must do?

Back 32

Conduct a map recon and supplement with imagery and intelligence products.

Front 33

What are Full Spectrum Operations?

Back 33

Army forces combine offensive, defensive, and stability or civil support operations simultaneously as part of an interdependent joint force to seize, retain, and exploit the initiative, accepting prudent risk to create opportunities to achieve desicive results.

Front 34

What is Operational Initiative?

Back 34

Operational Initiative is setting or dictating the terms of action throughout an operation.

Front 35

What two factors are intrinsic to seizing the initative?

Back 35

Risk and Opportunity

Front 36

What is Individual Initiative?

Back 36

Individual Initiative is the willingness to act in the absence of orders, when existing orders no longer fit the situation, or when unforseen opportunity or threat arise.

Front 37

What is "Economy of Force"?

Army Operations class Check on Learning.

Back 37

Achieving the greatest impact from the forces you have available (the most bang for your buck).

Economy of Force is the reciprocal of mass: Allocate minimum essential combat power to secondary efforts.

Front 38

What are the purposes of Offensive Operations?

Army Operations class Check on Learning.

Back 38

There are six purposes to Offensive Operations:

1. Dislocate, Isolate, Disrupt, and Destroy Enemy Forces

2. Seize Key Terrain

3. Deprive Enemy of Resources

4. Develop Intelligence

5. Deceive and Divert the Enemy

6. Create a Secure Environment for Stability Operations

Front 39

What is ASCOPE?

Army Operations class Check on Learning.

Back 39

ASCOPE is the acronym commanders use to evaluate civil considerations.

Areas, Structures, Capabilities, Organizations, People, and Events.

Front 40

What are the 9 Principles of War?

Army Operations class Check on Learning.

Back 40

MOOSE MUSS

Mass
Objective
Offensive
Security
Economy of Force

Maneuver
Unity of Command
Surprise
Simplicity

Front 41

What type of commands is MDMP used for?

Check on learning question.

Back 41

MDMP is used for commanders with a staff - battalion and above.

Front 42

What is the first step of MDMP?

Check on learning question.

Back 42

Receipt of the Mission

Front 43

Why is Mission Analysis crucial to MDMP?

Check on learning question.

Back 43

Mission Analysis allows the commander to begin battlefield visualization. The results of Mission Analysis are defining the tactical problem and determining feasible solutions.

Front 44

What organizational level are TLP used?

Check on learning question.

Back 44

Company and below.

Front 45

What is first step of TLP?

Check on learning.

Back 45

Receive the Mission

Front 46

Do the TLP steps follow a rigid sequence?

Check in learning question.

Back 46

No. TLP does not follow a rigid sequence.

Front 47

What are the three parts to motivation?

Check on learning question.

Back 47

Motivation has three parts: Arousal, Direction, and Intensity.

Front 48

What are the things that the arousal, direction, and intensity of motivation produce?

Check on learning question.

Back 48

Motivation focuses ATTENTION

Motivation produces EFFORT

Motivation generates PERSISTENCE

Motivation produces TASK STRATEGIES

Front 49

Motivate Subordinates focused on three motivation theories, what are they?

Back 49

Individual Needs theories of Maslow and Alderfer

Work Motivation theory of Hertzberg

Front 50

How many levels are there in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?

Back 50

Five

Front 51

What are the five levels in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?

Back 51

1. Self Actualization

2. Esteem Needs

3. Social Needs

4. Safety Needs

5. Psychological Needs

Front 52

What are the assumptions underlying Maslow's theory?

Back 52

1. Humans are always in a state of wanting; needs which are unmet are motivators.

2. Human needs are arranged in order of importance: once a need is satisfied, another takes its place.

Front 53

Alderfer modified Maslow's theory and developed ERG Theory. What does ERG stand for?

Back 53

ERG Theory is specific to Existence, Relatedness, and Growth.

Front 54

The differences between Maslow and Alderfer are centered around three concepts, what are they?

Back 54

1. How needs are categorized

2. The relationship of needs and levels

3. What happens when a need is not satisfied

Front 55

According to the handout, what were the four causes of the Civil War?

Back 55

States rights, tariffs, slavery, and the Patrone factor.

Front 56

What was the first battle of the Civil War?

Back 56

The Battle of Ft. Sumter.

Front 57

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

Back 57

South Carolina

Front 58

For every man killed in battle during the Civil War, how many died from sickness and disease?

Back 58

Two. For every 1 man killed in combat 2 died from sickness and disease.

Front 59

True or False: Most soldiers in the Civil War were under 21 years old?

Back 59

True.

Front 60

Approximately how man African American soldiers fought for the Union Army?

Back 60

Approximately 180,000 black troops fought for the Union Army. This was about 10% of the Union Army strength.

Front 61

True of False: the Civil War is known as the First Modern War.

Back 61

True.

Front 62

Specific to strategy and tactics, what type of conflict was the Civil War?

Back 62

The Civil War was a war of maneuver.

It was a war in which the balance of power was described in terms of technology.

Front 63

In terms of strategy and tactics, how did the civil was begin and how did it end? What type of tactics were used?

Back 63

The civil war began with Napoleonic Principles and by the end showcased a preview of WWI style trench warfare.

Front 64

According to our handout, the South fought two foes. The Union was one of them and what was the other?

Back 64

Economics.

Front 65

Approximately how many soldiers fought in the Civil War?

Back 65

3.5 Million

Front 66

Of the 3.5 Million soldiers who fought in the Civil War, how many were actually regulars of the Union or Confederate military forces?

Back 66

75,000. The vast majority of the rest were volunteers from State organized units.

Front 67

How did the South tend to name battles?

Back 67

The South named battles after the closest town or city.

Front 68

How did the North name battles?

Back 68

The North named battles after the closest stream or river.

Front 69

The North called them the first and second battles of “Bull Run”, but what did the South call them?

Back 69

The South named the battles of Bull Run the first and second battles of “Manasses”.

Front 70

In the South, what is the battle of Antietam called?

Back 70

In the South, the Battle of Antietam is known as the Battle of Sharpsburg.

Front 71

What was the number one resource of the South?

Back 71

The number one resource of the South was agriculture.

Front 72

What was probably the most destructive force to the Confederacy?

Back 72

Hyperinflation

Front 73

What are the main reasons the Confederates lost the Civil War?

Back 73

1. Lack of manpower;
2. Lack of industry;
3. An opponent with almost unlimited resources;
4. Railroads that only ran in north-south direction;
5. Economics: The southern economy only got worse as the war raged on.

Front 74

What was the Percussion Cap ignition system?

Back 74

The Percussion Cap ignition system had a simple tube running straight into the gun barrel. It did not use an exposed flash pan to begin the ignition process.

Front 75

What was the primary rifle of the Civil War?

Back 75

The primary rifle of the Civil War was the 1861 Springfield Musket.

Front 76

What was the Minnie Ball?

Back 76

The Minnie Ball was a lead projectile tapering forward from its narrow base. The force of the explosion expanded the hollow base of the bullet to fit the rifling. The round left the rifle spinning, which greatly increased accuracy.

Front 77

Which British weapons company sold arms to both the Union and the Confederacy?

Back 77

Royal Small Arms Factory of Enfield, England.

Front 78

How many rounds per minute could a good Civil War artillery crew fire?

Back 78

About two rounds per minute.

Front 79

Name the technological innovations of the Civil War:

Back 79

1. Telecommunications
2. photojournalism
3. aerial observations (balloons)
4. submarines (CSS Hunley: first sub to sink a ship in wartime)
5. Steam and ironclad ships (Monitor & Merrimac)
6. railroads
7. rapid-fire weapons

Front 80

Who used the first machine-gun type weapon in combat?

Back 80

The Confederacy. They used the Williams breech-loading rapid fire gun.

Front 81

What is significant about the CSS Hunley?

Back 81

The CSS Hunley was the first submarine to ever sink a ship in wartime. CSS Hunley rammed a spar-torpedo into the USS Housatonic.