Multiple echelons conducting MDMP simultaneously on the same mission.
What is parallel planning?
100
It includes as a minimum the type of operation, general location, initial timeline, and any movement or recon to initiate.
What is WARNO 1?
100
A systematic, continuous process of analyzing the threat and the operational environment in a specific geographic area.
What is Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield?
100
Feasible, Acceptable, Suitable, Distinguishable, and Complete.
COA screening criteria
200
The most important participant in MDMP.
Who is the commander?
200
Collecting appropriate field manuals, current running estimates, HHQs OPLAN/OPORD, HHQs intelligence estimates, etc
What is Gather the Tools?
200
A task that must be performed to accomplish a specified task or mission but is not stated in the HHQ order.
What is an implied task?
200
An operational structure (ADP 3-0) commonly used when generating options in COA Development.
What is Decisive-Shaping-Sustaining?
300
During MDMP, commanders focus their activities on __________, ________________, and _______________.
What is understanding, visualizing, and describing.
300
A task specificially assigned to a unit by its higher HQs.
What is a specified task?
300
These two subcategories are components of CCIRs.
Friendly Force Information Requirements and Priority Information Requirements.
300
Helps planners link multiple tasks with goals, objectives, and end-state conditions.
What are Lines of Effort (LOEs)?
400
Manages and coordinates the staff's work and provides quality control to the MDMP.
Who is the Executive Officer (XO)?
400
Time needed to plan and prepare;
Guidance on abbreviating the MDMP;
Which outside agencies/organizations to contact;
Staff's experience, cohesiveness, level of stress.
What is the Conduct Initial Assessment?
400
Contains the five elements of who, what, when, where, and why, but not how.
What is the Proposed Mission Statement?
400
Map graphics, TTPs, SOPs, and detailed guidance are examples of.....
What are Control Measures?
500
Increase Commander's Involvement, and Limit the Number of COAs to Develop.
What are MDMP Time-Saving Techniques?
500
Includes initial time allocations, initial information requirements, and collaborative planning times and locations.
What is the Commander's Initial Guidance?
500
Links the operation's purpose with conditions that define the desired end state.
What is the Initial Commander's Intent?
500
Wargaming uses the __________, ___________, and __________________ method.