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Definition of Tactics:
Employment of units in combat, includes the ordered arrangment and maneuver of units
in relation to each other, the terrain and the enemy to translate potential combat power
in victorious battles and engagements.
What's is combat power?
Total means of destruction, construction, and information capabilities that a military unit
can apply at a given time.
What is Unified Land Operations?
how the army seizes, retains and exploits the initiative to gain and maintain a position of
relative advantage in order to prevent and deter conflict resolution
What are the Characteristics of defense?
Preparation, security, disruption, massing effects, flexibility.
What are the characteristics of offensive operations?
Surprise, concentration, audacity and tempo
What are the elements of combat power?
Leadership, information, movement and maneuver, intelligence, fires, sustainment,
mission, command, and protection
What are the forms of maneuver?
Envelopment
Turning movement
Infiltration
Penetration
Frontal attack
What is mass and concentration?
The concentration of combat power In order to concentrate the effects of combat power
at the decisive place and time.
List the 4 types of offensive tasks
Movement to contact, attack, exploitation, pursuit.
What are the 3 essential elements of a combat patrol?
Assault, support, and security
What are the types of rally points?
Initial, En route, objective, re-entry, near and far side.
What are the five phases of conducting a raid?
Approach, isolate, set conditions, ASLT element, ASLT objective, tactical movement
away from the objective.
What is the Definition of TLP's?
Process the leader goes through to prepare the unit to accomplish the mission.
Describe key terrain
Any area which holds a marked advantage to either combatant.
What type of ambush requires the assault element and the support element to be
parallel to the targets route and subjects the target to Flanking Fire?
Linear Ambush