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X100 TEST REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSHow is operational art applied? - Answers -Operational Art is applied to all aspects of
joint operations and integrates ends, ways, and means, while accounting for risk,
across....
What are the 12 principles of Joint Operations? - Answers -Objective, Offensive, Mass,
Maneuver, Economy of Force, Unity of Command, Security, Surprise, Simplicity,
Restraint, Perseverance, Legitimacy
Which principle of Joint Operations has the purpose to direct every military operation
toward a clearly defined, decisive, and achievable goal? - Answers -Objective.
Which principle of Joint Operations has the purpose to seize, retain, and exploit the
initiative? - Answers -Offensive.
Which principle of Joint Operations has the purpose to concentrate the effects of
combat power at the most advantageous place and time to produce decisive results? -
Answers -Mass.
Which principle of Joint Operations has the purpose to place the enemy in a position of
disadvantage through the flexible application of combat power? - Answers -Maneuver.
Which principle of Joint Operations has the purpose to expend minimum essential
combat power on secondary efforts in order to allocate the maximum possible combat
power on primary efforts? - Answers -Economy of Force.
Which principle of Joint Operations has the purpose to ensure unity of effort under one
responsible commander for every objective? - Answers -Unity of Command.
Which principle of Joint Operations has the purpose to prevent the enemy from
acquiring unexpected advantage? - Answers -Security.
Which principle of Joint Operations has the purpose to strike at a time or place or in a
manner for which the enemy is unprepared? - Answers -Surprise.
Which principle of Joint Operations has the purpose to increase the probablity that plans
and operations will be executed as intended by preparing clear, uncomplicated plans
and concise orders? - Answers -Simplicity.
What are the 4 steps in the Material Acquisition Process? - Answers -1) Initial
Capabilities Document (ICD) 2) Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) 3) Capabilities
Development Document (CDD) 4) Capabilities Production Document (CPD)
,What is an Initial Capabilities Document? - Answers -documents the need for non-
materiel and/or materiel solution approaches to resolve a specific high risk capability
gap derived from the JCIDS C-BA process.
What is a Capabilities Development Document? - Answers -is the warfighter's primary
means of defining authoritative, measurable, and/or testable capabilities for the
Engineering and Manufacturing phase of an acquisition program.
What is the Capabilities Production Document? - Answers -is the warfighter's primary
means of providing authoritative and testable capabilities for the Production and
Deployment (P&D) phase of an acquisition program.
Clausewitz Trinity - Answers -Reason (the government), chance (the military), and
passion (the people)
Concept of friction in war - Answers -Danger, physical effort, and ambigous information
Center of Gravity (doctrine) - Answers -The source of power that provides moral or
physical strength, freedom of action, or will to act.
The purpose of CoG Analysis - Answers -Help JFCs and staffs analyze friendly and
adversary sources of strength as well as weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
Operational Art - Answers -A deliberate process designed to Understand and Visualize
the Environment in order to develop a strategy. It is a vision that links tactical actions to
strategic objectives.
Operational Methodology - Answers -Understand the strategic direction. Understand the
OE. Understand the problem.
Commander's Planning Guidance - Answers -Describe the OE. Describe the problem.
Describe the operational approach. Give the CDR's Initial Intent.
What are the elements of system's prespective? - Answers -RAFT - Relationships,
Actors, Functions, Tension.
Critical Capabilities - Answers -verb; considered crucial enablers for a COG to function
as such, and are essential to the accomplishment of the adversary's assumed
objective(s)
Critical Requirements - Answers -noun; the conditions, resources, and means that
enable a critical capability to become fully operational
Which principle of Joint Operations has the purpose to limit collateral damage and
prevent the unnecessary use of force? - Answers -Restraint.
,Which principle of Joint Operations has the purpose to ensure the commitment
necessary to attain the national strategic end state? - Answers -Perseverance.
Which principle of Joint Operations has the purpose to maintain legal and moral
authority in the conduct of operations? - Answers -Legitimacy.
Why is Force Management important? - Answers -Force Management is important
because it ensures that today's Army can rapidly respond to the challenges of today and
the future.
Critical Vulnerability - Answers -aspects or components of critical requirements that are
deficient and can be targeted
ULO - Answers -how the Army seizes, retains, and exploits the initiative to gain and
maintain a position of relative advantage in sustained land operations
Four Foundations of ULO - Answers -Begins and ends with the initiative. Executed
through DA. By means of Army Core Competencies. Guided by Mission Command.
Personal Initiative - Answers -The willingness to act in the absence of orders, when
existing orders no longer make sense, or the unforeseen arises
Philosophy of Mission Command - Answers -the exercise of authority and direction by
the commander using mission orders to enable disciplined initiative within the
commander's intent to empower agile and adaptive leaders in the conduct of unified
land operations
Initiative in DA - Answers -Initiative gives all operations the spirit, if not the form, of the
offense. Initiative is used to gain a position of advantage that degrades and defeats the
enemy throughout the depth of an organization.
Decision Point - Answers -a point in space or time the commander or staff anticipate
making a key decision concerning a specific course of action.
Decisive Operation - Answers -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.
Three operational frameworks - Answers -Decisive-Shaping-Sustaining. Deep-Close-
Security. Main Effort-Supporting Effort.
What is IPB? - Answers -the systematic process of analyzing of METT-TC in the AI to
determine their effect on operations.
What is JIPOE? - Answers -a systematic approach used by intelligence personnel to
analyze the adversary and other relevant aspects of the operational environment.
, The 4 Steps to IPB - Answers -1) Define the OE. 2) Describe the Environmental Effects
on Operations. 3) Evaluate the Threat. 4) Determine Threat/Adversary COAs.
Primary Defensive Tasks - Answers -Area Defense, Mobile Defense, Retrograde
2 Types of Power - Answers -Personal (commitment) and Positional (compliance)
3 Types of Influence Techniques - Answers -Hard, soft, and rational
Define Organizational Climate - Answers -consists of collective perceptions of the work
environment formed by members of the organization based on actions, policies, and
procedures of the leadership
Define Organizational Culture - Answers -The shared beliefs of a group used to solve
problems and manage internal anxiety
Define Joint Operations - Verify - Answers -means military actions conducted by joint
forces and those Service forces employed in specified command relationships with each
other.
What is an RMA? - Verify - Answers -The assembly of a complex mix of tactical,
organizational, doctrinal, and technological innovations in order to implement a new
conceptual approach to warfare or specialized sub-branch of warfare
What is JCIDS? - Verify - Answers -a need driven joint capabilities-based requirements
generation process
What is the purpose of JCIDS? - Answers -The objective is to develop a balanced and
synchronized DOTMLPF-P solution that is affordable, useful, effective, supportable, and
based on mature technology
What is DAS - Verify - Answers -Defense Acquisition System (DAS). A management
process to translate user needs and technological opportunities into reliable and
sustainable systems
What is the JCIDS relationship to DAS? - Answers -JCIDS is related to the DAS by the
MDD
Examples of RMA - Answers -• Swedish improvements in volley fire, Union use of the
railroad, the needle gun
What is the goal of Force Management - Answers -To provide trained and ready units
for the Combatant Commanders
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