Joint Operations and Airman Leadership Study (ALS) Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering military doctrine, core values, instruments of power, command structures, and JADO/ACE operational concepts based on ALS lecture notes.

Joint interorganizational coordination

The cooperation, coordination, and integration of the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities with military operations to achieve a unified action.

Unity of Effort

The coordination and cooperation toward common objectives, even if the participants are not necessarily part of the same command or organization; it is the product of successful unified action.

Stakeholder

A person, organization, or entity who affects or can be affected by actions of the U.S. military, and who does not necessarily have shared goals or objectives with the USG or DOD.

Mission Partner

An agency or other external organization that the U.S. military works with within a specific situation or operation, based on an agreement, commitment or willing arrangement, to advance their mutual interests.

Air Force Core Values

Integrity First, Service Before Self, Excellence in All We Do.

Army Core Values

Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, Personal Courage.

Coast Guard Core Values

Honor, Respect, Devotion to Duty.

Marine Corps Core Values

Honor, Courage, Commitment.

Navy Core Value

Honor, Courage, and Commitment.

Command and Control (2)

Provides access to reliable communications and information networks for joint operations.

Global Strike

A core mission that involves the ability to project military power more rapidly, more flexibly, and with a lighter footprint than other options.

Air and Space Superiority

Control of the air domain which is crucial to the success of modern and emergent warfare and guarantees availability of other core missions to combatant commanders.

Rapid Global Mobility

Quickly projects air power to anywhere on the face of the early, providing swift deployment and the ability to sustain operations.

Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR)

Provides situational awareness and necessary information to decision makers.

Instruments of Power

The seven instruments include Diplomatic, Information, Military, Economic, Financial, Intelligence, and Law Enforcement.

Diplomatic Instrument

Providing foreign aid to a partner nation.

Information Instrument

Using media and social media platforms to influence public opinion.

Military Instrument

Deploying armed forces for defense, humanitarian missions, or peacekeeping operations.

Economic Instrument

Developing and maintaining a strong economy.

Financial Instrument

Denying specified individuals or groups access to funding sources.

Intelligence Instrument

Collecting information on a terrorist network.

Law Enforcement Instrument

A government agency arresting criminals and terrorists.

Conventional Warfare

Traditional military operations between nation-states or armed groups, using non-nuclear weapons and tactics.

Irregular Warfare

A type of conflict where the rules are always changing that involves acts such as guerrilla tactics, subversion, or sabotage.

Operational Level

Generally the realm of Combatant Commanders and their subordinate components, with a focus on the application of operational art.

Strategic Level

Integrates national policy decisions into the development and promulgation of national, defense, and military strategies.

Tactical Level

Where the conduct of battles and engagements seeks to achieve military objectives assigned to joint force commanders and subordinate units.

National Security Council

Established in $1947$, this entity is primarily responsible for coordinating and overseeing national security efforts in the United States.

SecDef

The principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense; all functions in the DOD are performed under their authority, direction, and control.

Operational Chain of Command

Runs from the President, through SecDef to the Combatant Commanders.

Administrative Chain of Command

Runs from the President, through SecDef to the Secretaries of the Military Departments.

Service Component Command

A command structure within a unified or joint force where a particular branch of the armed forces has operational control over its forces.

Geographic Combatant Command

Assigned a geographic Area of Responsibility (AOR) within which their missions are accomplished with assigned and/or attached forces.

Joint Task Force

Established on a geographical area or functional basis when the mission has a specific limited objective and does not require overall centralized control of logistics.

Functional Combatant Command

Operate worldwide across geographic boundaries and provide unique capabilities to geographic combatant commands and the armed services.

Subordinate Unified Command

Established to conduct operations continuingly in accordance with the criteria set forth for unified Combatant Commands.

Combatant Command

A command with a broad continuing mission under a single commander and composed of significant assigned components of two or more Military Departments.

AFPP

Air Force Planning Process.

JADO

Joint All-Domain Operations.

Armed Conflict

A situation in which combat is the primary means to satisfy interests.

Cooperation

Mutually beneficial relationships with compatible interests.

Competition

Relationships with incompatible interests where none are seeking to escalate to armed conflict.

Agile Combat Employment (ACE)

An operational concept that involves a proactive and reactive operational scheme of maneuver to increase resiliency and survivability while generating combat power.

Commander's Intent

A clear and concise statement that frames the operation's purpose and its desired end state.

Mission Ready Airmen

Personnel trained in expeditionary skills and capable of accomplishing diverse tasks, often as a cross-functional team supporting ACE force elements.

Condition Based Authorities

A published set of authorities delegated down the chain of command to be activated only when specified conditions are met.

Mission Command

An approach to C2 that empowers subordinate decision-making for flexibility, initiative, and responsiveness.

Competition Continuum

A concept describing a world of enduring competition conducted through a mixture of cooperation, competition, and armed conflict.

Joint Chiefs of Staff

The highest-ranking military body consisting of the chairman, vice chairman, and the chiefs of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and National Guard Bureau.

Oath of enlistment

A solemn promise that enlisted members of the U.S. military make when they joint the service.

Bill of Rights

The collective name referring to the first $10$ amendments to the U.S. constitution.