Receipt of Mission
Includes: Initial time allocations; a decision to initiate design or go straight into MDMP; necessary coordination to perform, including liaison officers to exchange; authorized movements and any ISR to initiate; collaborative planning times and locations; initial info requirements; additional staff tasks:
What is Initial Commander's Guidance.
Number of Steps under Mission Analysis:
What is 18.
Number of Steps under COA Development:
What is 8.
A disciplined process, with rules and steps that attempt to visualize the flow of the operation given the force's strengths and dispositions, enemy capabilities and possible COAs, and civilian considerations:
What is COA Analysis/War Gaming
METT-TC is an acronym for:
What is Mission, Enemy, Terrain & Weather, Troops, Time, Civilian (Civil Considerations).
Defines/decides how long headquarters can spend on each step of MDMP, what products are due, who is responsible for them, and who receives them:
Who is the COS (XO).
A restriction placed on the command by a HHQ. It dictates and action or inaction, thus restricting the freedom of action of a subordinate commander:
What is a Constraint.
Total means of destructive, constructive and information capabilities that a military unit/formation can apply at a given time:
What is Combat Power.
A point in space or time when the commander or staff anticipates making a key decision concerning a specific course of action:
What is a Decision Point.
Accomplishes the following: identifies requirements and intel gaps, evaluates available assets, determines gaps in the use of assets, and/or recommends ISR assets to collect on PIRs:
What is ISR Synchronization.
Issue Warning Order #1 includes, at a minimum, this:
What is the type of operation, the general location of the operation, the initial timeline, and any movement or recon to initiate.
The Army's primary decision-making process for identifying hazards and controlling risks across the full spectrum of Army missions, functions, operations, and activities (FM 5-19).
What is Composite Risk Management (CRM).
Each prospective COA is examined for validity using five screening criteria. Name all five:
What is 1) Feasible; 2) Acceptable; 3) Suitable; 4) Distinguishable; 5) Complete.
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Step 6 of War Gaming involves recording and displaying the results in order to build task organizations, synchronize activities, develop decision support templates, confirm and refine event templates, prepare plans or orders, and compare COAs. Name at least one of the two techniques used in this process:
Arguably the most important portion of MDMP:
What is IPB (Step 2 of Mission Analysis).
During receipt of mission, the CO and staff conduct and initial assessment of time and resources available to plan, prepare and begin execution of an operation. This helps commanders determine four things. Name at least two of the four.
What is 1) The time needed to plan and prepare for the mission; 2) Guidance on design and abbreviating the MDMP, if required; 3) Which outside agencies and organizations to contact and incorporate into the planning process; or 4) The staff's experience cohesiveness, and level of rest or stress.
Step 2: Perform Initial IPB. IAW FM 2-01.3, IPB consists of four steps. Name these 4 steps:
What is 1) Define the OE; 2) Describe the Environmental Effects on Operations; 3) Evaluate the Threat; 4) Determine Threat COA(s).
When "Generating Options" in Step 2, what is the proper sequence of the following Operations:
Shaping, Sustaining, Decisive
What is 1) Decisive, 2) Shaping, then 3) Sustaining Operations.
Step 1: "Gather the Tools" requires several tools, materials, and date for the war game. Name at least three out of the six tools/materials/etc. needed for this step:
What are 1) Running Estimates; 2) Event Templates; 3) A Recording Method; 4) Completed COAs, including Graphics; 5) A means to post or display Enemy and Friendly Unit Symbols and Other Organizations; and/or 6) A Map of the AO.
In counterinsurgency and stability operations, most density recommendations fall with a range of _____ to _____ counterinsurgents for every _______ residents in an AO. (Troop density is the ratio of security forces to inhabitants.)
What is 20 to 25 counterinsurgents for every 1,000 residents.
Appropriate manuals to utilize when gathering tools for MDMP (name at least three):
What is ADP 5-0, FM 2-0, FM 6-0, ADP 1-02 and/or ATP 2-01.3.
Step 18: Issue a WARNO. At a minimum, it contains 10 topics. Name at least 5 of the 10:
What is 1) The approved mission statement; 2) The commander's intent; 3) Changes to task organization; 4) The unit AO; 5) CCIRs and EEFIs; 6) Risk guidance; 7) Priorities by warfighting functions; 8) Military deception guidance; 9) Essential stability tasks; and/or 10) Specific priorities.
Two key elements of operational design that assist in developing a concept of operations:
What are Lines of Operations and Lines of Effort.
There are three War Gaming Methods. Name them:
What are Belt, Avenue-In-Depth and Box.
During COA Comparison, staff compares feasible COAs to identify the one with: (There are a few feasible answers here. 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; and/or 4) Most Damaging Environmental Impact.