AVCCC Exam Study Guide with Questions and Complete Solutions
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AVCCC
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AVCCC
IPB - Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) is the systematic process of analyzing
the mission variables of enemy, terrain, weather, and civil considerations in an area of
interest to determine their effect on operations.
Steps of IPB - D- Define the operational environment
a. Defin...
AVCCC Exam Study Guide with
Questions and Complete Solutions
IPB - ✔Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) is the systematic process of analyzing
the mission variables of enemy, terrain, weather, and civil considerations in an area of
interest to determine their effect on operations.
Steps of IPB - ✔D- Define the operational environment
a. Defining the operational environment results in the identification of significant
characteristics of the operational environment that can affect friendly and enemy
operations. This step also results in the identification of gaps in current intelligence holdings.
D- Describe environmental effects on operations
a. Describes how characteristics related to enemy, terrain, weather, and civil
considerations affect friendly ops
E- Evaluate the threat
,a. Understand how a threat/adversary can affect friendly operations.
D- Determine threat
a. Identifies and develops possible threat/adversary COAs that can affect accomplishing
the friendly mission.
The mission statement - ✔The mission is the task, together with the purpose, that
clearly indicates the action to be taken and the reason therefore.
Decisive point - ✔A geographic place, specific key event, critical factor, or function that,
when acted upon, allows commanders to gain a marked advantage over an adversary or
contribute materially to achieving success.
Offensive tasks - ✔M- Movement to contact
A- Attack
E- Exploitation
P- Pursuit
Movement to contact - ✔An offensive task designed to develop the situation and to
establish or regain contact. The goal is to make initial contact with a small element while
retaining enough combat power to develop the situation and mitigate the associated risk.
The commander conducts a movement to contact when the enemy situation is vague or
not specific enough to conduct an attack.
Attack - ✔An offensive task that destroys or defeats enemy forces, seizes and secures
terrain, or both.
An attack differs from a movement to contact because, in an attack, the commander knows
part of the enemy's disposition. This knowledge enables the commander to better synchronize
and employ combat power more effectively in an attack than in a movement to contact.
, Exploitation - ✔An offensive task that usually follows the conduct of a successful attack and
is designed to disorganize the enemy in depth.
Exploitations seek to disintegrate enemy forces to the point where they have no alternative
but to surrender or take flight.
Pursuit - ✔An offensive task designed to catch or cut off a hostile force attempting to
escape, with the aim of destroying it.
A pursuit normally follows a successful exploitation. However, any offensive task can
transition into a pursuit, if enemy resistance has broken down and the enemy is fleeing the
battlefield.
Defensive tasks - ✔A- Area defense
M- Mobile defense
R- Retrograde
Area defense - ✔The area defense is a defensive task that concentrates on denying
enemy forces access to designated terrain for a specific time rather than destroying the
enemy outright.
The focus of the area defense is on retaining terrain where the bulk of the defending force
positions itself in mutually supporting, prepared positions. Units maintain their positions
and control the terrain between these positions.
Mobile defense - ✔The mobile defense is a defensive task that concentrates on
the destruction or defeat of the enemy through a decisive attack by a striking force.
The mobile defense focuses on defeating or destroying the enemy by allowing enemy forces
to advance to a point where they are exposed to a decisive counterattack by the striking force.
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