ADA BOLC MOD B part 1 (Vega)

8 TLPs

Receive the Mission

Issue the WARNO

Make a Tentative Plan

Initiate Movement

Conduct Recon

Complete the Plan

Issue the OPORD

Supervise and Refine

What is the 1/3 - 2/3 Rule

1/3 Time spent for PL planning
2/3 Time spent for subordinate planning/preparation

Name the 5 types of Rehearsals

Full-Force, Terrain Model, Map, Sketch Map, Radio

What are the 3 aspects that determine the Nature of Operations

Human Endeavors, Dynamic & Uncertain, Achieve Political Purpose

What are the 3 things Commanders do when performing the Operations Process

Direct, Lead, Assess

In what terms do Commanders express their visualization during the Operations Process?

Commander's Intent, Planning Guidance & Approach, CCIR, and Friendly Information

What are the 5 Integrating Processes

Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IBP)

Information Collection
Targeting
Risk Management
Knowledge Management

What is Battle Rhythm?

Deliberate, daily schedule of command, staff, and unit activities intended to maximize use of time and synchronize staff actions (JP 3-33).

_______ is statement that directs the manner in which subordinate units cooperate to accomplish the mission.

Concept of operations

What are the 4 Planning Pitfalls

Attempting to forecast and dictate events
Trying to plan in too much detail.
Using the plan as a script for execution.
Institutionalizing rigid planning methods.

The 9 Principles of Training

1: Commanders are the primary trainers.
2: Noncommissioned officers train individuals, crews, and small teams; advise Commanders on all aspects of training.
3: Train using multi-echelon techniques to maximize time and resource efficiency.
4: Train as a combined arms team.
5: Train to standard using appropriate doctrine.
6: Train as you fight.
7: Sustain levels of training proficiency over time.
8: Train to maintain.
9: Fight to train.

What are the 3 steps for the Task Crosswalk

1: Select prioritized higher-echelon MET or battle task to crosswalk.
2: Select subordinate collective tasks.
3: Select individual tasks.

What are the 8 Steps of the 8-Step Training Model

1: Plan
2: Train & Certify Leaders
3: Recon
4: Issue OPORD
5: Rehearse
6: Train
7: AAR
8: Retrain

What are the 8 Operational Variables (PMESII-PT)

Political
Military
Economics
Social
Information
Infrastructure
Physical Environment
Time

The 4 categories that describe a culture

Values, Beliefs, Behaviors, & Norms

The 4 hazards of a nuclear weapon detonation

Blast, Thermal Radiation, Initial Nuclear Radiation, & EMP

What has to happen to produce fallout?

The fireball must touch the ground, causing everything it touches to be pulled inward and create radioactive particles

Army supports joint force in what 4 strategic roles?

1: Shaping Operational Environments
2: Preventing Conflict
3: Prevailing in large-scale combat operations (LSCO)
4: Consolidating Gains

The 5 Core Competencies of the Army

1: Prompt and sustained land combat
2: Combined arms operations
3: Special operations
4: Set and sustain the theater for the joint force
5: Integrate national, multinational, and joint power on land

What are the 2 differences between ADPs & ATPs

ADPs: Contains fundamental principles & acts as a foundation
ATPs: Provides ways to accomplish a task and is flexible & adaptable.

The 3 types of Brigades

Brigade Combat Teams (BCTS), Multifunctional Support Brigades, & Functional Brigades

The 3 types of BCTs

Infantry, Armored, Stryker

The 4 Tenets of Operations

Agility, Convergence, Endurance, Depth

Examples of Cyber Attacks

Denial of service, GPS, and cell phone location finding (GSM Sniffing and Wi-Fi sniffing)

What does EMS stand for and what uses it

Electromagnetic Spectrum: range of all possible electromagnetic radiation from radio waves to atomic radiation

Typically measured in hertz (Hz) with radios commonly operating within KHz, MHz, and GHz range

What is the "sweet spot" of the EMS typically seen in a platoon and what is the tactical radio that uses it?

Very High (VHF) to the Super High (SHF). Devices that use this range include SINGARS FM tactical radios, most military datalinks, cell phones, and satellite communications

What are techniques to decrease transmission times

Use of brevity codes

ensure all transitions are necessary

preplan messages before transmitting them

use alternate means of communication

What are 2 methods to protect GPS against jamming

Body mass shielding, terrain masking, dig a hole, or use a steel can.

What are the effects of electromagnetic warfare?

Deny, degrade, destroy, disrupt, + manipulate

T/F SHORAD falls under DIVARY

True

What are the 4 steps of the Operations Process

1: Plan
2: Prepare
3: Execute
4: Continuously Assess

What is the start of planning for attack operations

Intelligence Preparation of the Operational Environment (IPOE)

What are the 4 steps of IPOE

1: Define the Operational Environment (OE)
2: Describe the OE Affects
3: Evaluate the Threat
4: Determine threat courses of action (COAs)

T/F The BN and above conduct MDMP for planning operations

True

The 3 Space-Enabled Capabilities

GPS, SATCOM, ISR

Give 2 examples of Non-Lethal Adversary Threats to MDO

SATCOM & GPS Jammers

What are some examples of Non-Adversary Threats to MDO

Unintentional Communications Interference, Solar Weather, Terrestrial Weather, Terrain & Vegetation

The 4 Support Relationships

1: Direct Support
2: General Support
3: Reinforcing
4: General Support-Reinforcing

What is ASCOPE

Areas
Structures
Capabilities
Organizations
People
Events

What is OAKOC

Obstacles
Avenues of Approach
Key Terrain
Observations & Fields of Fire
Cover & Concealment

What are the 3D's in a Space Operational Environment (D3SOE)

Deny, Degrade, Disrupt

What are some examples of State Actors

Nation States/Countries
2+3 Threat: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran

Peace core, US state department, etc.. (doing things on behalf of US government)

What are Non-State Actors

Non-state actors may not be openly hostile to U.S. forces, but they can disrupt or negatively affect our ability to accomplish the mission

What is the definition of a Strategic Environment

The global environment in which the US President employs all the elements of national power

What is the definition of an Operational Environment

A composite of the conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the employment of capabilities

What is a Hybrid Threat and COTS?

Two or more distinctly different potential enemies join together to fight the United States

Commercial off the shelf: things you buy commercially and can use against the military

What is the Army's philosophy of command and control and it's definition

Mission Command: The approach to command and control that empowers subordinate decision making and decentralized execution appropriate to the situation (ADP 6-0)

What does Creative Thinking do

Examines problems from a fresh perspective to develop innovative solutions

What are the fundamentals of the Operations Process

The Nature of Operations
Mission Command
The Operations Process
Principles of the Operations Process
Integrating Processes
Battle Rhythm

What are the 2 forms of Planning?

Conceptual & Detailed

What is the definition of Planning

The art and science of understanding a situation, envisioning a desired future, and laying out effective ways of bringing that future about.

What are the 3 Planning Methodologies

Army Design, MDMP, & TLPs

What is the definition of Assessment

The determination of the progress toward accomplishing a task, creating an effect, or achieving an objective

What is Doctrine

The body of professional knowledge that guides how Soldiers perform tasks related to the Army's role.

What is the purpose of Force Operations

Establishing an air picture, determining the classification and identification of all tracks, evaluating the threat these tracks pose to the defended assets, and exercising engagement control over subordinate units.

Which OE variable includes geography, structures, as well as the climate and weather?

Physical Environment

________ is when the fireball doesn't touch the ground, particles remain small, and are dispersed by wind.

Fallout safe

This is the task, together with the purpose that clearly indicates the actions to be taken and for what reasons

Mission Statement

What does MET stand for

Mission Essential Tasks

ASCOPE is analyzed in what step of the METT-TC framework

Civil considerations

What are the task proficiency ratings

T: Trained P: Practiced U: Untrained

T/F The 2 Army roles are Dynamic & Effective

False

Types of Multi-Domain Warfare?

Air

Land

Maritime

Space

Cyberspace

Importance of understanding Socio-Cultural Understanding (SCU)?

Essential to inform, discern, or influence human behavior

Reveals WHAT and WHY something matters to a population

Operational relevance of SCUs?

Guides military decision making and actions by contributing to specific steps in the operations process

4 main categories of non-state rogue actors

Taliban, cartel, extremists, …

Examples on non-state actors?

Journalists, companies, religious groups, red cross, etc..

Humanitarian Relief Organizations Definition?

Organizations and individuals that have motivations that differ from their public persona

Media in OE?

Information factor in the Operational Environment

Independent or affiliated with news agencies

• could have bias favoring certain positions

• GREAT effect on public opinion

• outlet for propaganda and physiological warfare

Transnational Corporations in OE?

Add to the complexity of OE b/c may be invited into the country

(4 main things they do on the slides)

Motivations are not always charitable

Private Security Organizations in OE?

PSOs are business enterprises or local ad hoc groups

Can be adversaries in OE as well

• can affort to pay more than smaller countries

2 categories of Combatants

Armed and Unarmed

Non-Combatants definition?

neutral to anything going on in definition, can be armed

Non-Combatants motivations

Altruism, personal dissatisfaction and self-improvement, job satisfaction, greed, garner political favor or influence

What level uses TLPs and what uses MDMP?

TLPs: company level and below

MDMP: battalion level and above

3 phases of TLPs?

Planning (steps 1-3)

Preparation (steps 4-7)

Execution & Assessment (step 8)

How many COA plans do you need to develop?

at least 2

How many levels up do you need to understand in relation to commanders’ intent?

2 levels up

Conventional Nuclear Integration (CNI definition)?

Refers to the seamless planning and operations of nuclear and conventional forces, in sequence and in parallel, across a spectrum of conflict, up to and through a nuclear employment environment

Prompt effects of nuclear weapon

Air blast

Cratering

Ground shock

Thermal radiation

Nuclear radiation

Electro-magnetic pulse

Delayed effects of nuclear weapons

Residual radiation

What percentages of Blast, Thermal, and Radiation happens in effects of nuclear weapons?

Blast 50%

Thermal 35%

Radiation 15%

Blast Definition?

creates overpressure and dynamic pressure

Thermal radiation definition?

creates intense heat and very bright light

Initial nuclear radiation definition?

creates biological impacts that manifest over time

Electro-magnetic pulse definition?

creates strong electromagnetic fields in the atmosphere that interact with antennas and electronics

Prompt effects of nuclear 1500m away?

High casualty rates

Radiation sickness

Compound injuries

Prompt effects of nuclear 3000m away?

Severe burn injuries

Moderate radiation dose

Broken bones

Prompt effects of nuclear 6000m away?

Mild burns

Cuts and bruises

Retinal burn

Dazzle

Prompt effects of nuclear over 6000m away?

Retinal burn

Flashblindness

Actions to discourage an action

Resilience

Deny benefit

Impose cost

What is terrain masking?

use of terrain to cover/shield electromagnetic signals (ruins direct line of sight)

What are Omni-Directional antennas?

antennas that shoot radiation in all directions

What report is JSIR?

Joint spectrum information report

What does D3SOE stand for?

Denied, Degraded, and Disrupted Space Operational Environment

Primary concerns for army tactical units in MDOs?

Non-Lethal, Non-Adversary Factors

• SATCOM Jammers

• GPS Jammers

Non-Lethal, Adversary Threats

• Communications Interference (unintentional)

• Solar weather (space)

• Terrestrial weather (earth)

• Terrain and vegetation

Hours to expect during Interference during a CTC rotation?

SATCOM: 50 hours

FM: 40-50 hours

FFT: 43 hours

GPS: 29 hours

Benefits of space-based ISR and downsides?

Unrestricted and worldwide coverage, satellite sensors provide multiple types of imagery and signals collection

Collects in denied areas of the world where aircraft and ground intelligence cannot access

Beyond line-of-sight coverage of large areas of interest

Expensive

Benefits of terrestrial-based ISR and downsides?

Company UAS assets can provide Near-Real-Time full-motion video relay

Local commander approval for relocation and tasking

Deployment of lethal or non-lethal effects after target identification

Easier to destroy

4 components of the army?

active, NG, reservists, and army civilian corps