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| 2. Q. What does the Operations Process constitute for the Army? |
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| A: The Operations Process constitutes the Army’s view on planning, preparing, executing, and assessing operations |
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| 3. Q. What does the Operations Process account for? |
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| A: It accounts for the complex, ever-changing, and uncertain nature of operations and recognizes that a military operation is foremost a human undertaking |
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| What is the Army’s Framework for Exercising Mission Command? |
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| A: The Operations Process |
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| What are the Major Command activities performed during Operations? |
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1.Planning
2.Preparation
3.Executing
4.Assessing |
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| A: The art and science of understanding a situation, envisioning a desired future, and laying out effective ways of bringing that future about |
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| A: Those activities performed by units and Soldiers to improve their ability to execute an operation |
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| A: Putting a plan into action by applying combat power to accomplish the mission |
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| A: The continuous determination of the progress toward accomplishing a task, creating an effect, or achieving an objective |
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| How do Commanders use the Operations Process? |
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| A: Through the support of their Staff, Commanders use the Operations Process to drive the conceptual and detailed planning necessary to understand, visualize, and describe their operational environment; make and articulate decisions; and direct, lead, and assess military operations |
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| What are the four Principles that guide the Operations Process? |
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A: 1. Commanders drive the Operations Process
2. Apply critical and creative thinking
3. Build and maintain situational understanding
4. Encourage collaboration and dialoge |
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| What happens upon completion of the initial order? |
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| A: planning continues as leaders revise the plan based on changing circumstances |
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| What is the Staff’s role during the Operations Process? |
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| A: to assist commanders with understanding situations, making and implementing decisions, controlling operations, and assessing progress |
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| During the Operations Process, what does Mission Command require? |
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| A: an environment of mutual trust and shared understanding among commanders, staffs, and subordinates |
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| What does it mean to Understand Something? |
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| A: to grasp its nature and significance |
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| What is an Operational Environment? |
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| A: influences that affect the employment of capabilities and bear on the decisions of the commander |
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| What is the Commander’s Intent? |
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| A: clear and concise expression of the purpose of the operation and the desired military end state that supports mission command, provides focus to the staff, and helps subordinate and supporting commanders act to achieve the commander’s desired results without further orders, even when the operation does not unfold as planned |
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| What does the Acronym CCIR stand for? |
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| A: Commander’s Critical Information Requirements |
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| What are the two components of CCIR’s? |
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| A: friendly force information requirements and priority intelligence requirements |
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| What does the Acronym EEFI stand for? |
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| A: Essential Elements of Friendly Information |
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| What does the Acronym PMESII-PT stand for? |
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| A: the eight interrelated operational variables: political, military, economic, social, information, infrastructure, physical environment, and time |
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| What does the Acronym METT-TC stand for? |
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| A: mission, enemy, terrain and weather, troops and support available, time available, and civil considerations |
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| What are the six Mission Variables? |
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| A: mission, enemy, terrain and weather, troops and support available, time available, and civil considerations (METT-TC) |
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| What does the Acronym TLP stand for? |
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| A: Troop Leading Procedures (TLP) |
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| What are some of the 17 Mission Preparation Activities? |
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1. Continue to coordinate and conduct liaison
2. Initiate information collection
3. Initiate security operations
4. Initiate troop movement
5. Initiate sustainment preparations
6. Initiate network preparations
7. Manage terrain
8. Prepare terrain
9. Conduct confirmation briefs
10. Conduct rehearsals
11. Conduct plans-to-operations transitions
12. Revise and refine the plan
13. Integrate new Soldiers and units
14. Complete task organization
15. Train
16. Perform pre-operations checks and inspections
17. Continue to build partnerships and teams |
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| When is the Force as a whole most vulnerable to surprise and enemy attack? |
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| What is done to minimize vulnerability during preparation? |
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| A: security operations—screen, guard, cover, area security, and local security—are essential during preparation |
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| What ensures that the right forces are in the right place, at the right time, with the right equipment and other resources ready to execute the operation? |
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