ILE CGSC X100 Review
- ANS - Nine. 6 geographical CCMDr. 3 Functional CCMDr. The Defense Department
has nine unified combatant commands, each with responsibilities for a geographic
region or functional area in support of U.S. strategic objectives. Their mission is to
maintain command and control of U.S. military forces around the world in peacetime as
well as in conflict.
• Understand the Operational Environment • Define the Problem-Problem Statement •
Operational Approach - ANS - What are the Operational Design Key Components?
4 foundations of ULO - ANS - Begins and ends with the initiative. Executed through
DA. By means of Army Core Competencies. Guided by Mission Command.
4 steps of IPB - ANS - 1. Define the operational environment.
2. Describe environmental effects on operations.
3. Evaluate the threat.
4. Determine threat courses of action.
Center of Gravity (doctrine) - ANS - The source of power that provides moral or
physical strength, freedom of action, or will to act.
Characteristics of the Defense - ANS - Disruption
Flexibility
Maneuver
Mass/Concentration
Operations in Depth
Preparation
Security
Clausewitz COG - ANS - The hub of all power and movement upon which everything
depends.
Clausewitzian Trinity - ANS - 1. Government-ends-reason
2. People-means-passion
3. Military-ways-chance
, Common Operating Precepts - ANS - 1. Inform domestic audiences and influence the
perceptions and attitudes of key foreign audiences as an explicit and continuous
operational requirement.
2. Achieve and maintain unity of effort within the joint force and between the joint force
and US Government, international, and other partners.
3. Leverage the benefits of operating indirectly through partners when strategic and
operational circumstances dictate or permit.
4. Integrate joint capabilities to be complementary rather than merely additive.
5. Avoid combining capabilities where doing so adds complexity without compensating
advantage.
6. Focus on operational objectives whose achievement suggests the broadest and most
enduring results.
7. Ensure freedom of action.
8. Maintain operational and organizational flexibility.
9. Plan for and manage operational transitions over time and space.
10. Drive synergy to the lowest echelon at which it can be managed effectively.
CULMINATION - ANS - point in time or space at which the operation can go no longer
maintain momentum.
During stability operations, culmination may result from the erosion of national will,
decline of popular support, question
decision point - ANS - a point in space or time the commander or staff anticipate
making a key decision concerning a specific course of action.
Decisive operation - ANS - the operation that directly accomplishes the mission. It
determines the outcome of a major operation, battle, or engagement. The decisive
operation is the focal point around which commanders design an entire operation.
Decisive point - ANS - a geographic place, specific key event, critical factor, or
function that, when acted upon, allows commanders to gain a marked advantage
Defense - ANS - conducted to defeat an enemy attack, gain time, economize forces,
and develop conditions favorable for offensive or stability tasks
Defensive tasks - ANS - Area Defense, Mobile Defense, Retrograde
- ANS - Nine. 6 geographical CCMDr. 3 Functional CCMDr. The Defense Department
has nine unified combatant commands, each with responsibilities for a geographic
region or functional area in support of U.S. strategic objectives. Their mission is to
maintain command and control of U.S. military forces around the world in peacetime as
well as in conflict.
• Understand the Operational Environment • Define the Problem-Problem Statement •
Operational Approach - ANS - What are the Operational Design Key Components?
4 foundations of ULO - ANS - Begins and ends with the initiative. Executed through
DA. By means of Army Core Competencies. Guided by Mission Command.
4 steps of IPB - ANS - 1. Define the operational environment.
2. Describe environmental effects on operations.
3. Evaluate the threat.
4. Determine threat courses of action.
Center of Gravity (doctrine) - ANS - The source of power that provides moral or
physical strength, freedom of action, or will to act.
Characteristics of the Defense - ANS - Disruption
Flexibility
Maneuver
Mass/Concentration
Operations in Depth
Preparation
Security
Clausewitz COG - ANS - The hub of all power and movement upon which everything
depends.
Clausewitzian Trinity - ANS - 1. Government-ends-reason
2. People-means-passion
3. Military-ways-chance
, Common Operating Precepts - ANS - 1. Inform domestic audiences and influence the
perceptions and attitudes of key foreign audiences as an explicit and continuous
operational requirement.
2. Achieve and maintain unity of effort within the joint force and between the joint force
and US Government, international, and other partners.
3. Leverage the benefits of operating indirectly through partners when strategic and
operational circumstances dictate or permit.
4. Integrate joint capabilities to be complementary rather than merely additive.
5. Avoid combining capabilities where doing so adds complexity without compensating
advantage.
6. Focus on operational objectives whose achievement suggests the broadest and most
enduring results.
7. Ensure freedom of action.
8. Maintain operational and organizational flexibility.
9. Plan for and manage operational transitions over time and space.
10. Drive synergy to the lowest echelon at which it can be managed effectively.
CULMINATION - ANS - point in time or space at which the operation can go no longer
maintain momentum.
During stability operations, culmination may result from the erosion of national will,
decline of popular support, question
decision point - ANS - a point in space or time the commander or staff anticipate
making a key decision concerning a specific course of action.
Decisive operation - ANS - the operation that directly accomplishes the mission. It
determines the outcome of a major operation, battle, or engagement. The decisive
operation is the focal point around which commanders design an entire operation.
Decisive point - ANS - a geographic place, specific key event, critical factor, or
function that, when acted upon, allows commanders to gain a marked advantage
Defense - ANS - conducted to defeat an enemy attack, gain time, economize forces,
and develop conditions favorable for offensive or stability tasks
Defensive tasks - ANS - Area Defense, Mobile Defense, Retrograde
