ALC TACTICS LATEST 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔What is meant by "Commander's Intent"? - ✔✔The commander's intent is a clear,
concise statement of what the force must do and the conditions the force must meet to
succeed with respect to the enemy, terrain, and civil considerations that represent the
desired end state.
✔✔What are the five elements in a mission statement? - ✔✔Who, what, when, where,
and why
✔✔What are the five paragraphs of an operations order? - ✔✔Situation, Mission,
Execution, Sustainment, Command and Signal
✔✔You are planning for a combat patrol. What element suppresses the enemy on the
objective using direct and indirect fires? - ✔✔Support
✔✔Which one of the following is the definition of Troop Leading Procedures? -
✔✔Dynamic process, by which a small unit leader analyzes a mission, develops a plan,
and prepares for an operation.
✔✔A symbol used on maps and displays to regulate forces and warfighting functions is
called what? - ✔✔Graphic control measure
✔✔You are training your Soldiers on how to properly display graphic symbols on an
overlay, the categories, and control measures. - ✔✔Planned, Suspected, Anticipated
✔✔Which one of the following is the definition of Tactics? - ✔✔Ordered arrangement
and maneuver of units in relation to each other, the terrain and the enemy to translate
potential combat power into victorious battles and engagements
✔✔What side of the HQ unit icon will the staff be drawn? - ✔✔Bottom left side
✔✔You have just received an operations order. Where in the OPORD would you find
the mission and intent of the headquarters 2 levels up? - ✔✔Situation sub paragraph d
✔✔What is the goal of unified land operations? - ✔✔Establish conditions that achieve
the joint force commanders end state by applying land power as part of a unified action
to defeat the enemy.
✔✔After the attack, you consolidate and reorganize, reporting to higher that your
platoon is capable of continuing the patrol. Your patrol remains halted while you send
out a squad to search the local area. You tell the squad leader to look for enemy forces
, and destroy them if they have the capability (overmatch). This is called a/an
__________ patrol - ✔✔Security
✔✔Which of the following are the characteristics of the defense? - ✔✔Preparation,
Security, Disruption, Mass and Concentration, Flexibility, Maneuver, Operations in-
depth.
✔✔The location of obstacles in support of disengagement depends on - ✔✔METT-TC
✔✔What are the elements of combat power? - ✔✔Movement /Maneuver, Intell,
Leadership, Fires, Protection, info, mission command
✔✔Which characteristic of the defense will allow the defender to seek to apply the
effects of overwhelming combat power where they choose and shift it to support the
defensive operation? - ✔✔Mass and concentration
✔✔Why do leaders need to conduct an enemy analysis? - ✔✔(8) To determine the
enemy's composition, disposition, strengths, doctrine, equipment, capabilities,
vulnerabilities, and probable courses of action.
✔✔What type of ambush requires the assault element and the support element to be
parallel to the target's route and subjects the target to flanking fire? - ✔✔Linear ambush
✔✔Observation and fields of fire, avenues of approach, key and decisive terrain,
obstacles, and cover and concealment are used to analyze - ✔✔Military aspects of
terrain
✔✔You are discussing types of rally points with your squad leaders. What are the five
most common types of rally points? - ✔✔Initial, en-route, objective, re-entry, near and
far
✔✔1. Which of the following characteristics implies that the defender arrives in the area
of operations before the attacker and uses the available time to prepare? -
✔✔Preparation
✔✔1. In which step of the TLP process would you develop your course of action? -
✔✔Make a tentative plan
✔✔1. The platoon sergeant is the platoons primary sustainment planner, coordinator,
and operator; reporting directing to the platoon leader. In a well written company
operation order, where will a platoon sergeant find the company logistics plan? -
✔✔Paragraph 4; service support
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔What is meant by "Commander's Intent"? - ✔✔The commander's intent is a clear,
concise statement of what the force must do and the conditions the force must meet to
succeed with respect to the enemy, terrain, and civil considerations that represent the
desired end state.
✔✔What are the five elements in a mission statement? - ✔✔Who, what, when, where,
and why
✔✔What are the five paragraphs of an operations order? - ✔✔Situation, Mission,
Execution, Sustainment, Command and Signal
✔✔You are planning for a combat patrol. What element suppresses the enemy on the
objective using direct and indirect fires? - ✔✔Support
✔✔Which one of the following is the definition of Troop Leading Procedures? -
✔✔Dynamic process, by which a small unit leader analyzes a mission, develops a plan,
and prepares for an operation.
✔✔A symbol used on maps and displays to regulate forces and warfighting functions is
called what? - ✔✔Graphic control measure
✔✔You are training your Soldiers on how to properly display graphic symbols on an
overlay, the categories, and control measures. - ✔✔Planned, Suspected, Anticipated
✔✔Which one of the following is the definition of Tactics? - ✔✔Ordered arrangement
and maneuver of units in relation to each other, the terrain and the enemy to translate
potential combat power into victorious battles and engagements
✔✔What side of the HQ unit icon will the staff be drawn? - ✔✔Bottom left side
✔✔You have just received an operations order. Where in the OPORD would you find
the mission and intent of the headquarters 2 levels up? - ✔✔Situation sub paragraph d
✔✔What is the goal of unified land operations? - ✔✔Establish conditions that achieve
the joint force commanders end state by applying land power as part of a unified action
to defeat the enemy.
✔✔After the attack, you consolidate and reorganize, reporting to higher that your
platoon is capable of continuing the patrol. Your patrol remains halted while you send
out a squad to search the local area. You tell the squad leader to look for enemy forces
, and destroy them if they have the capability (overmatch). This is called a/an
__________ patrol - ✔✔Security
✔✔Which of the following are the characteristics of the defense? - ✔✔Preparation,
Security, Disruption, Mass and Concentration, Flexibility, Maneuver, Operations in-
depth.
✔✔The location of obstacles in support of disengagement depends on - ✔✔METT-TC
✔✔What are the elements of combat power? - ✔✔Movement /Maneuver, Intell,
Leadership, Fires, Protection, info, mission command
✔✔Which characteristic of the defense will allow the defender to seek to apply the
effects of overwhelming combat power where they choose and shift it to support the
defensive operation? - ✔✔Mass and concentration
✔✔Why do leaders need to conduct an enemy analysis? - ✔✔(8) To determine the
enemy's composition, disposition, strengths, doctrine, equipment, capabilities,
vulnerabilities, and probable courses of action.
✔✔What type of ambush requires the assault element and the support element to be
parallel to the target's route and subjects the target to flanking fire? - ✔✔Linear ambush
✔✔Observation and fields of fire, avenues of approach, key and decisive terrain,
obstacles, and cover and concealment are used to analyze - ✔✔Military aspects of
terrain
✔✔You are discussing types of rally points with your squad leaders. What are the five
most common types of rally points? - ✔✔Initial, en-route, objective, re-entry, near and
far
✔✔1. Which of the following characteristics implies that the defender arrives in the area
of operations before the attacker and uses the available time to prepare? -
✔✔Preparation
✔✔1. In which step of the TLP process would you develop your course of action? -
✔✔Make a tentative plan
✔✔1. The platoon sergeant is the platoons primary sustainment planner, coordinator,
and operator; reporting directing to the platoon leader. In a well written company
operation order, where will a platoon sergeant find the company logistics plan? -
✔✔Paragraph 4; service support
