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Sgts Course Warfighting Exam with accurate detailed answers
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Marine Corps Ethos - ✔✔Honor|| || || ||
Courage
Commitment
Mental Forces - ✔✔Mental forces provide individuals and groups with the ability to:
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•Grasp complex battlefield situations
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•Think critically ||
•Make effective estimates, calculations, and decisions
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•Devise tactics and strategies || || ||
•Develop plans ||
Physical Forces - ✔✔The physical characteristics are easily seen, understood, and measured.
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Commodities such as equipment capabilities, supplies, seized physical objectives, force ratios,
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losses of materiel or life, terrain lost or gained, and prisoners or materiel captured are tangible and
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considered physical forces.
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Moral Forces - ✔✔The moral forces in warfighting pertain to the psychological and intangible
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forces. Examples include the following:
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•National and military resolve || || ||
•National and individual conscience || || ||
•Emotion
•Fear
•Courage
•Morale
•Leadership
•Espirit
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What is the definition of war as defined by MCDP 1, Warfighting? - ✔✔A violent clash of
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interests between or among organized groups characterized by the use of military force
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Physical, moral, and mental forces - ✔✔Forces that influence warfare whether they are tangible
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or intangible
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Uncertainty - ✔✔Unknowns about the enemy and the environment experienced in battle || || || || || || || || || || ||
Disorder - ✔✔Plans go awry, instructions are misunderstood, comms fail, mistakes and
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unforeseen events occur || ||
Friction - ✔✔The force that resists all action and saps energy
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Human dimension - ✔✔Behavior exemplified by the clash of wills and the related complexities,
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inconsistencies, and peculiarities that characterize human behavior || || || || || ||
Fluidity - ✔✔A condition that creates a continuous, fluctuating flow of activity
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War uses all power elements that one group can bring against another to achieve the policy
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objective. This includes: - ✔✔Diplomatic means || || || || ||
Information means ||
Military means ||
Economic means ||
3 Levels of warfare - ✔✔Strategic, Operational, Tactical
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Initiative - ✔✔Initiative is the ability to dictate terms of the conflict and force the enemy to meet
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on these terms. While the striking power of the offense is usually associated with initiative, a
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Sgts Course Warfighting Exam with accurate detailed answers
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Marine Corps Ethos - ✔✔Honor|| || || ||
Courage
Commitment
Mental Forces - ✔✔Mental forces provide individuals and groups with the ability to:
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•Grasp complex battlefield situations
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•Think critically ||
•Make effective estimates, calculations, and decisions
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•Devise tactics and strategies || || ||
•Develop plans ||
Physical Forces - ✔✔The physical characteristics are easily seen, understood, and measured.
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Commodities such as equipment capabilities, supplies, seized physical objectives, force ratios,
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losses of materiel or life, terrain lost or gained, and prisoners or materiel captured are tangible and
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considered physical forces.
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Moral Forces - ✔✔The moral forces in warfighting pertain to the psychological and intangible
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forces. Examples include the following:
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•National and military resolve || || ||
•National and individual conscience || || ||
•Emotion
•Fear
•Courage
•Morale
•Leadership
•Espirit
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What is the definition of war as defined by MCDP 1, Warfighting? - ✔✔A violent clash of
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interests between or among organized groups characterized by the use of military force
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Physical, moral, and mental forces - ✔✔Forces that influence warfare whether they are tangible
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or intangible
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Uncertainty - ✔✔Unknowns about the enemy and the environment experienced in battle || || || || || || || || || || ||
Disorder - ✔✔Plans go awry, instructions are misunderstood, comms fail, mistakes and
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unforeseen events occur || ||
Friction - ✔✔The force that resists all action and saps energy
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Human dimension - ✔✔Behavior exemplified by the clash of wills and the related complexities,
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inconsistencies, and peculiarities that characterize human behavior || || || || || ||
Fluidity - ✔✔A condition that creates a continuous, fluctuating flow of activity
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War uses all power elements that one group can bring against another to achieve the policy
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objective. This includes: - ✔✔Diplomatic means || || || || ||
Information means ||
Military means ||
Economic means ||
3 Levels of warfare - ✔✔Strategic, Operational, Tactical
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Initiative - ✔✔Initiative is the ability to dictate terms of the conflict and force the enemy to meet
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on these terms. While the striking power of the offense is usually associated with initiative, a
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