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?
100
The number of steps under Mission Analysis.
What is 18?
100
The number of steps under COA Development.
What is 8?
100
The unbiased controller of the process, ensuring the staff stays on a timeline and achieves the goals of the wargaming session.
Who is the CoS (XO)?
100
A tool used to compare and evaluate COAs thoroughly and logically, yet highly subjective.
What is a Decision matrix?
200
The 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?
200
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?
200
Screening criteria to examine the validity of each prospective COA.
(Name at least three of the five)
What is 1) Feasible; 2) Acceptable; 3) Suitable; 4) Distinguishable; and 5) Complete?
200
A point in space and time when the commander or staff anticipates making a key decision concerning a specific course of action.
What is a Decision Point?
200
A committed force.
What is a unit with an on-order mission?
300
The minimum required information in Warning Order #1.
What is the type of operation, the general location of the operation, the initial timeline, and any movement to initiate?
300
Five step process integrated by the S3 and Safety Officer.
What is Risk Management?
300
The effect created by combining the elements of intelligence, movement and maneuver, fires, sustainment, protection, mission command, information, and leadership.
What is Combat Power?
300
Avoid comparing one COA with another during the wargame as this occurs during COA comparison.
What is a Wargaming Rule?
300
The most important step of MDMP.
What is Step 2, Mission Analysis?
400
Continuously updated information on friendly unit status, resources, and civil considerations (critical facts & assumptions).
What are running estimates?
400
Who, what, when, where, and why, but seldom how.
What are the five elements of a mission statement?
400
Operations considered when generating options, in order.
What are Decisive, Shaping, and Sustaining?
400
Running Estimates, Event Templates, A Recording Method, Completed COAs (including Graphics), A means to post or display Enemy and Friendly Unit Symbols and Other Organizations, and a map of the AO.
What are tools for COA Analysis?
400
The density recommendation for determining the number of counterinsurgents in an AO.
What is 20 to 25 counterinsurgents for every 1,000 residents?
500
Appropriate field manuals, higher HQ OPLAN/OPORD, SOPs, and running estimates.
What are tools?
500
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)?
500
The two products used by planners to develop a broad concept.
What are Lines of Operations and Lines of Efforts.
500
Recommended War Gaming Methods.
What are Belt, Avenue-In-Depth and Box?
500
Factors considered to compare feasible COAs during COA Comparison.
(Identify at least two.)
What is 1) The Highest Probability of Success against the Most Likely Enemy COA; 2) Most Dangerous Enemy COA; 3) Most Important Stability Task; or 4) the Most Damaging Environmental Impact?