Receipt of Mission
When the Commander determines initial time allocations; a decision to initiate Army design methodology or go straight into the MDMP; necessary coordination to exchange liaison officers; how to abbreviate the MDMP, if required; authorized movements and any ISR to initiate; collaborative planning times and locations; initial info requirements; additional staff tasks.
What is the Commander's Initial Guidance?
The number of steps under Mission Analysis.
What is 18?
Provides a picture of the movement and maneuver aspects of the concept (of the COA), including the positioning of the forces.
What is a Sketch?
The unbiased controller of the process, ensuring the staff stays on a timeline and achieves the goals of the war-gaming session.
Who is the CoS (XO)?
A method for applying the critical and creative thinking to understand, visualize, and describe unfamiliar problems and approaches to solving them.
What is a Army Design Methodology (ADM)? (ADP 5-0)
The sub-step when the CoS (XO) develops a staff planning timeline that outlines how long headquarters can spend on each step of MDMP, what products are due, who is responsible for them, and who receives them.
What is Conduct an Initial Assessment?
A restriction placed on the command by a higher headquarters that dictates an action or inaction, thus restricting the freedom of action of a subordinate commander.
What is a Constraint?
The effect created by combining the elements of intelligence, movement and maneuver, fires, sustainment, protection, mission command, information, and leadership.
What is Combat Power?
A point in space and time when the commander or staff anticipates making a key decision concerning a specific COA.
What is a Decision Point?
The source of power that provides moral or physical strength, freedom of action, or will to act.
What is a Center of Gravity? (JP 5-0)
Continuous assessment of the current situation used to determine if the current operation is proceeding according to the commander's intent and if planned future operations are supportable.
What are Running Estimates?
Some information requirements are of such importance to the CO that the staff nominates them to become a CCIR. Name the two types of CCIRs.
What are PIRs (Priority Information Requirements) and FFIRs (Friendly Force Information Requirements)?
Screening criteria to examine the validity of each prospective Course of Action (COA). (Name all)
What are 1) Feasible; 2) Acceptable; 3) Suitable; 4) Distinguishable; and 5) Complete?
A technique used to compare COA's strengths and weaknesses, advantages and disadvantages with respect to each other.
What is a Decision Matrix?
Arguably the most important step of MDMP.
What is Step 2, Mission Analysis?
The minimum required information in Warning Order #1. (4 Criteria)
What is the type of operation, the general location of the operation, the initial timeline, and any movement to initiate?
Answers the following: who, what, when, where, and why, but seldom how.
What are the Five Elements of a Mission Statement?
The operations considered when generating options (In order).
What are Decisive, Shaping, and Sustaining?
Individual responsible for: Refining the critical asset list and the defended asset list; assessing hazards; implementing operational area security to include LOCs; refining chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear operations.
Who is the Chief of Protection?
The density recommendation for determining the number of counterinsurgents in an AO.
What is 20 to 25 Counterinsurgents for every 1,000 Residents?
Appropriate field manuals, higher HQ OPLAN/OPORD, SOPs, and running estimates, all documents related to the mission and the AO, etc.
What are Tools?
The steps of the process to analyze the mission variables of enemy, terrain, weather, and civil considerations.
What is 1) Define the OE; 2) Describe the Environmental Effects on Operations; 3) Evaluate the Threat; 4) Determine Threat COA(s)?
Planners use these to develop a broad concept - One portrays the more tradition links among objectives, decisibe points, and CoGs while the other links multiple tasks with goals, objectives, and end-state conditions. Name these in this order.
What are Lines of Operations and Lines of Efforts?
Recommended War Gaming Methods. (Name all)
What are Belt, Avenue-In-Depth and Box?
During COA Development, directives given by a CO to subordinate COs to assign responsibilities, coordinate fire and maneuver, and control combat operations.
What are Graphic Control Measures (GCM)?