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A list of questions and answers related to military tactics and procedures. It covers topics such as troop leading procedures, unified land operations, offensive and defensive tasks, engagement area development, and core competencies of army aviation. The document also includes definitions of military terms such as ambush, disrupt, interdict, secure, turn, breach, destroy, and neutralize. The questions and answers are presented in a multiple-choice format and are rated A+.
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Troop Leading Procedures (FM 3-21.10) - correct answer ✅1. Receive the mission
Synchronization - correct answer ✅Synchronization is the arrangement of military actions in time, space, and purpose to produce maximum relative combat power at a decisive place and time. Flexibility - correct answer ✅Flexibility is the employment of a versatile mix of capabilities, formations, and equipment for conducting operations. Principles of Joint Operations (ADRP 3-90) - correct answer ✅1. Objective: Direct every military operation toward a clearly defined, decisive, and achievable goal.
Decisive Point - correct answer ✅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 (ADRP 3-90, FM 3-04) - correct answer ✅An offensive task is a task conducted to defeat and destroy enemy forces and seize terrain, resources, and population centers (ADRP 3-0). The four primary offensive tasks are movement to contact, attack, exploitation, and pursuit. Movement to contact - correct answer ✅Movement to contact is an offensive task designed to develop the situation and to establish or regain contact. Attack - correct answer ✅An attack is an offensive task that destroys or defeats enemy forces, seizes and secures terrain, or both. Exploitation - correct answer ✅Exploitation is an offensive task that usually follows the conduct of a successful attack and is designed to disorganize the enemy in depth.
Pursuit - correct answer ✅A pursuit is an offensive task designed to catch or cut off a hostile force attempting to escape, with the aim of destroying it. Defensive Tasks (ADRP 3-90, FM 3-04) - correct answer ✅A defensive task is a task conducted to defeat an enemy attack, gain time, economize forces, and develop conditions favorable for offensive or stability tasks (ADRP 3-0). There are three basic defensive tasks—area defense, mobile defense, and retrograde. Area Defense - correct answer ✅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. Mobile Defense - correct answer ✅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. Retrograde - correct answer ✅The retrograde is a defensive task that involves organized movement away from the enemy.
Characteristics of the Offense (ADRP 3-90) - correct answer ✅Characteristics of the offense include audacity, concentration, surprise, and rapid tempo. Characteristics of the Defense (ADRP 3-90) - correct answer ✅The defending commander uses the characteristics of the defense—disruption, flexibility, maneuver, mass and concentration, operations in depth, preparation, and security —to help accomplish that task. Levels of War (JP 3-0) - correct answer ✅Three levels of warfare—strategic, operational, and tactical—model the relationship between national objectives and tactical actions. Fundamentals of Reconnaissance (FM 3-04, ATP 3-04.1) - correct answer ✅1. Orient on reconnaissance objectives.
Forms of Maneuver (FM 3-90) - correct answer ✅Distinct tactical combinations of fire and movement with a unique set of doctrinal characteristics that differ primarily in the relationship between the maneuvering force and the enemy. Envelopment Flank Attack Frontal Attack Infiltration Penetration Turning movement Fundamentals/Tenets of Breaching (FM 3-21.10) - correct answer ✅The five tenets of breaching are intelligence, fundamentals, organization, mass, and synchronization. Elements of Combat Power and the Warfighting Functions (ADRP 3-0) - correct answer ✅Combat power has eight elements: leadership, information, mission command, movement and maneuver, intelligence, fires, sustainment, and protection.
Engagement Area Development (FM 3-21.10, ATP 3-04.1) - correct answer ✅Step
clearly expressing which of their commander's critical information requirements (CCIR) are most important to them. The Core Competencies of Army Aviation (FM 3-04, ATP 3-04.1) - correct answer ✅1. PROVIDE ACCURATE AND TIMELY INFORMATION COLLECTION
timetable, or cause enemy forces to commit prematurely or attack in piecemeal fashion. Interdict - correct answer ✅An action to divert, disrupt, delay, or destroy the enemy's military surface capability before it can be used effectively against friendly forces (JP 3-03) See FM 3-96, ATP 3-91.1, ATP 3-92. Secure - correct answer ✅preventing a unit, facility, or geographical location from being damaged or destroyed by enemy. (FM 3-90-1) Turn - correct answer ✅forcing an enemy force from one avenue of approach or mobility corridor to another. (FM 3-90-1) Breach - correct answer ✅employs all available means to break through or establish a passage through an enemy defense, obstacle, minefield, or fortification. (FM 3-90-1) Destroy - correct answer ✅Physically render an enemy force or equipment combat-ineffective until it is reconstituted or rebuilt.
Fix - correct answer ✅prevents the enemy from moving any part of his force from a specific location for a specific period. (FM 3-90-1) Suppress - correct answer ✅temporary degradation of the performance of a force or weapons system below the level needed to accomplish the mission. (FM 3-90-
Screen - correct answer ✅A security task that primarily provides early warning to the protected force. (ADRP 3-90) Guard - correct answer ✅A security task to protect the main force by fighting to gain time while preventing enemy ground observation of and direct fire against the main body. (ADRP 3-90) Attack by fire - correct answer ✅direct fires, supported by indirect fires, to engage an enemy force without closing with the enemy to destroy, suppress, fix, or deceive that enemy. (FM 3-90-1) Clear - correct answer ✅remove all enemy forces and eliminate organized resistance within an assigned area. (FM 3-90-1)
Seize - correct answer ✅taking possession of a designated area using overwhelming force. (FM 3-90-1) Infiltration - correct answer ✅undetected movement through or into an area occupied by enemy forces to occupy a position of advantage in the enemy rear while exposing only small elements to enemy defensive fires. (FM 3-90-1) Defeat - correct answer ✅an enemy force has temporarily or permanently lost the physical means or the will to fight.. (FM 3-90-1) Diversion - correct answer ✅drawing the attention and forces of an enemy from the point of the principal operation; an attack, alarm, or feint that diverts attention. Block - correct answer ✅denies the enemy access to an area or prevents his advance in a direction or along an avenue of approach. (FM 3-90-1) Delay - correct answer ✅To slow the time of arrival of enemy forces or capabilities (FM 3-09)
Neutralize - correct answer ✅rendering enemy personnel or materiel incapable of interfering with a particular operation. (FM 3-90-1) Retain - correct answer ✅ensures that a terrain feature controlled by a friendly force remains free of enemy occupation or use. (FM 3-90-1) Support by fire - correct answer ✅engage the enemy by direct fire in support of another maneuvering force. (FM 3-90-1) Air movement - correct answer ✅Air transport of units, personnel, supplies, and equipment including airdrops and air landings. Movement to Contact - correct answer ✅An offensive task designed to develop the situation and establish or regain contact.(ADRP 3-90) Contain - correct answer ✅to stop, hold, or surround enemy forces or to cause them to center their activity on a given front and prevent them from withdrawing any part of their forces for use elsewhere. (FM 3-90-1)