Fundamentals
These are tasks conducted to defeat and destroy enemy forces and seize terrain, resources, and polulation.
What are offensive tasks?
What is a continuous and cylical activity of the operations process?
What is sustainment planning?
What is an attack?
What is sustainmentof offensive tasks?
This can result in a tactical pause, culmination of offensive operations, and prevent consolidation of gains.
What is failure to provide adequate sustainment during offensive operations?
This must encompass all warfighting functions to ensure the plan is integrated across all functions and domains.
What are planning considerations?
This is an offensive task designed to develop the situation and establish or regain contact.
The two following statements belong to this level of sustainment:
- Critical need for class III, V, VIII, and IX
- Increased use of aerial delivery
What is Brigade sustainment?
This allows sustainment planners to simultaneously transition between offensive operations and the consolidation of gains?
What is maintaining an understanding of offensive and future operations?
These people must avoid large, consolidated bases and form dispersed, temporary base clusters.
What are planners?
The FMC will responsible for this during offensive operations.
What is fixing or recovering damaged BSB equipment?
This company provides the vital link between the supported unit and the echeloned support above it.
What is the distribution company?
If this is not maintained, the enemy may recover from the shock of the first assault, gain the initiative, and mount a successful counterattack.
What is offensive momentum?
What impacts the ability to executre large-scale offensive operations?
What are planning considerations?
This is an offensive task designed to catch or cut off a hostile force attempting to escape, with the aim of destroying it.
What is pursuit?
This company is responsible for fixing or recovering damaged BSB equipment.
What is the field maintenance company?
They push forward critical supplies in an OE where degraded communications exist.
Who are sustainment commanders and planners?
Planners should anticipate encounters or direct action from theses entities.
What are bypassed enemy forces, SOF, and long-range artillery?
This is an offensive task that usually follows the conduct of a successful attack and is designed to disorganize the enemy in depth.
What is exploitation?
This company adapts to changing mission and operational variables during the offense.
What is the Forward Support Company (FSC)?