verified answers
BCTs - correct answer ✔✔ -smallest combined arms unit that can be committed independently
-designed to conduct offensive, defensive, and stability operations
-they can be task organized to meet whatever the mission needs
ABCT - correct answer ✔✔ conducts offensive, defensive, and stability/support operations in
support of Combatant Commander objectives providing armored firepower with tanks, mech
IN, and SP artillery
Forms of Maneuver - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Envelopment
2. Turning Movement
3. Infiltration
4. Penetration
5. Frontal Assault
Single Envelopment - correct answer ✔✔ an attacking force seeks to avoid the principal enemy
defenses by seizing objectives behind those defenses that allow the targeted enemy force to be
destroyed in their current positions
Turning Movement - correct answer ✔✔ The attacking force seeks to avoid the enemy's current
positions causing the enemy force to move out of their current positions or divert major forces
to meet the threat.
, Infiltration - correct answer ✔✔ An attacking force conducts undetected movement through or
into an area occupied by enemy forces to occupy a position of advantage behind those positions
while exposing only small elements to enemy defensive fires.
Penetration - correct answer ✔✔ An attacking force seeks to rupture enemy defenses on a
narrow front to disrupt the defensive system
Frontal Assault - correct answer ✔✔ An attacking force seeks to destroy a weaker enemy force
or fix a larger enemy force in place over a broad front.
Offense - correct answer ✔✔ Conducted to defeat and destroy enemy forces as well as gain
control of terrain, resources, and population centers
Purpose of the Offense - correct answer ✔✔ to defeat and destroy enemy forces, gain control of
terrain, resources, and population centers
Forms of attack - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Ambush
2. Counterattack
3. Demonstration
4. Feint
5. Raid
6. Spoiling attack
Offensive Tasks - correct answer ✔✔ MTC, Attack, Exploitation, and Pursuit
Movement to Contact (MTC) - correct answer ✔✔ designed to develop the situation and
establish or regain contact. It also creates favorable conditions for subsequent tactical actions.