Army Competition: ADP 3-0, Operations
This flashcard set focuses on ADP 3-0, the Army’s foundational doctrine for operations, including its purpose, coverage of military operations, and the key operational variables (PMESII-PT) that help commanders understand and shape the operational environment.
What regulation covers Operations?
ADP 3-0
Key Terms
What regulation covers Operations?
ADP 3-0
What does ADP 3-0 cover?
Operations
What are the operational variables?
PMESII-PT
Political
Military
Economic
Social
Information
Infrastructure
Physical environment
Time
What are the mission variables?
METT-TC
Mission
Enemy
Terrain and weather
Troops and support
Time
Civil considerations
What is the Army’s warfighting doctrine?
Unified Land Operations
What is a campaign?
Series of related major operations aimed at achieving strategic and operational objectives within a given time and space.
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Term | Definition |
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What regulation covers Operations? | ADP 3-0 |
What does ADP 3-0 cover? | Operations |
What are the operational variables? |
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What are the mission variables? |
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What is the Army’s warfighting doctrine? | Unified Land Operations |
What is a campaign? | Series of related major operations aimed at achieving strategic and operational objectives within a given time and space. |
What is an operation? | A military action, consisting of two or more related tactical actions, designed to achieve a strategic objective, in whole or in part. |
What is a tactical action? | A battle or engagement, employing lethal or nonlethal actions, designed for a specific purpose relative to the enemy, terrain, or friendly forces. |
What is unified action? | The synchronization, coordination, and integration of the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities with military operations to achieve unity of effort. |
What are the Army’s four strategic roles? | Shape operational environments. |
What are unified land operations? | The simultaneous execution of offense, defense, stability, and defense support of civil authorities across multiple domains to achieve the Army’s strategic roles. |
What is MDMP? | Military Decision-Making Process |
What is operational art? | The pursuit of strategic objectives through the arrangement of tactical actions in time, space, and purpose. |
What is the operational environment? | A composite of conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the employment of capabilities and bear on the decisions of the command |
How are Army operations characterized? | F-DIALS. Flexibility, integration, lethality, adaptability, depth, and synchronization. |
What are two planning processes used in the Army? | MDMP Military decision making process, and TLPs Troop leading procedures. |
What are the two most challenging potential enemy threats to the US? | Nonstate entities, and nuclear-capable nation-states. |
What is decisive action? | The continuous, simultaneous execution of offensive, defensive, and stability operations or defense support of civil authority tasks. |
What is mission command? | Command and control that empowers subordinate decision making and decentralized execution appropriate to the situation. |
What are the fundamental principles of Mission Command? | Competence, Trust, Shared understanding, Commander’s intent, Mission orders, Disciplined initiative, Risk acceptance |
What is combined arms? | Synchronized and simultaneous application of arms to achieve an effect greater than if each element was used separately or sequentially. |
What is combat power? | The total means of destructive, constructive, and information capabilities that a military unit or formation can apply at a given time. |
What are the two Army Core Competencies? | Combined arms maneuver and wide area security |
What is wide area security? | Application of combat power to protect populations, forces, infrastructure, and activities; to deny the enemy positions of advantage; to retain the initiative by consolidating gains. |
What is the foundation of Unified Land Operations? | Mission command, initiative, and decisive action |
What are the Troop Leading Procedures? | RIMICCIS. Receive mission, issue warning order, make tentative plan, initiate movement, conduct recon, complete the plan, issue order, supervise, refine. |
What are the tenets of good operations? | Simultaneity, depth, synchronization, flexibility |
What is the Army's operational concept? | Unified land operations |
What are the foundations of unified land operations? | Decisive action and mission command |
What are the principles of Army operations? | Mission command, Develop the situation through action, combined arms, adherence to law of war, establish and maintain security, create multiple dilemmas for the enemy. |
From the enemy's point of view, what must US operations be? | Rapid, unpredictable, disorienting |