Army Competition Board Study ADP 3-0, Operations

ADP 3-0

Operations

PMESII-PT

Political

Military

Economic

Social

Information

Infrastructure

Physical environment

Time

METT-TC

Mission

Enemy

Terrain and weather

Troops and support

Time

Civil considerations

Unified Land Operations

Series of related major operations aimed at achieving strategic and operational objectives within a given time and space.

A military action, consisting of two or more related tactical actions, designed to achieve a strategic objective, in whole or in part.

A battle or engagement, employing lethal or nonlethal actions, designed for a specific purpose relative to the enemy, terrain, or friendly forces.

The synchronization, coordination, and integration of the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities with military operations to achieve unity of effort.

Shape operational environments.
Prevent conflict.
Prevail in large-scale ground combat.
Consolidate gains.

The simultaneous execution of offense, defense, stability, and defense support of civil authorities across multiple domains to achieve the Army’s strategic roles.

Military Decision-Making Process

The pursuit of strategic objectives through the arrangement of tactical actions in time, space, and purpose.

A composite of conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the employment of capabilities and bear on the decisions of the commander.

F-DIALS. Flexibility, integration, lethality, adaptability, depth, and synchronization.

MDMP Military decision making process, and TLPs Troop leading procedures.

Nonstate entities, and nuclear-capable nation-states.

The continuous, simultaneous execution of offensive, defensive, and stability operations or defense support of civil authority tasks.

Command and control that empowers subordinate decision making and decentralized execution appropriate to the situation.

Competence, Trust, Shared understanding, Commander’s intent, Mission orders, Disciplined initiative, Risk acceptance

Synchronized and simultaneous application of arms to achieve an effect greater than if each element was used separately or sequentially.

The total means of destructive, constructive, and information capabilities that a military unit or formation can apply at a given time.

Combined arms maneuver and 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.

Mission command, initiative, and decisive action

RIMICCIS. Receive mission, issue warning order, make tentative plan, initiate movement, conduct recon, complete the plan, issue order, supervise, refine.

Simultaneity, depth, synchronization, flexibility

Unified land operations

Decisive action and mission command

Mission command, Develop the situation through action, combined arms, adherence to law of war, establish and maintain security, create multiple dilemmas for the enemy.

Rapid, unpredictable, disorienting