Mission Command
This philosophy of leadership empowers Airmen to operate in uncertain, complex, and rapidly changing environments through trust, shared awareness, and intent.
What is mission command?
This AFPP step is considered the foundation for effective planning where the problem is defined and refined.
What is Mission Analysis?
These are joint force actions in multiple domains --integrated in planning and synchronized in execution -- at the speed and scale needed to gain advantage.
What are Joint All-Domain Operations (JADO)?
The ABCs of effective communication?
What are accuracy, brevity, and clarity?
Name the four distinct 6 month phases of AFFORGEN.
Reset, Prepare, Ready, Available
While doctrine explicitly states that authorities can be delegated through proper channels, this cannot be delegated by a commander.
What is responsibility?
This statement should frame the operation's purpose, its desired end state, and risk the commander is willing to accept.
What is the Commander's Intent Statement?
Name the seven tenets of Airpower.
What are mission command, flexibility/versatility, synergistic effects, persistence, concentration, priority, and balance?
Name the three ethical theories and basic theory principle of each.
Deontology - Principle-based ethics, strict adherence to rules.
Consequentialist - known as utilitarianism, locates the morality of an action solely in the outcomes or results.
Virtues-based ethics - focus on the moral character
What aims to be strategically predictable but operationally unpredictable in its execution to deter aggression?
ACE - Agile Combat Employment
This principle is defined as a clear and concise statement that frames the operation's purpose and desired end state without specifying "how" to achieve it.
What is Commander's Intent?
A belief about the current situation or future course of events, presumed true in the absence of facts.
What is an assumption?
Name the seven instruments of power.
What is DIME-FIL? Diplomatic, Informational, Military, Economic, Finance, Intelligence, Law Enforcement.
Define the SMART acronym.
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-Bound
This framework is the specific method by which Airmen execute mission command.
What is Centralized Command, Distributed Control, Decentralized Execution (CC-DC-DE).
Name the Five Cs of Mission Command.
What are Character, Competence, Capability, Cohesion, and Capacity?
Name the seven steps in AFPP.
What are planning initiation, mission analysis, COA development, COA analysis and wargaming, COA comparison, COA approval, and plans and order development?
Name the seven Joint Functions.
What are C2, information, intelligence, fires, movement/maneuver, protection, and sustainment?
Name the four MPA and ten ALQs.
Executing the Mission - Job Proficiency, Initiative, Adaptability
Leading People - Inclusion and Teamwork, Emotional Intelligence, and Communication
Managing Resources - Stewardship and Accountability
Improving the Unit - Decision Making and Innovation
Name the 11 Unified Combatant Commands (CCMDs)
Geographic: USAFRICOM, USCENTCOM, USEUCOM, USINDOPACOM, USNORTHCOM, USSOUTHCOM, USSPACECOM
Functional: USCYBERCOM, USSOCOM, USSTRATCOM, USTRANSCOM
Name the principles of Mission Command.
What are provide clear commander's intent, create shared understanding, exercise disciplined initiative, build teams through mutual trust, accept prudent risk, and use mission-type orders?
Name the modified five-paragraph order format.
What are situation, mission, execution, force sustainment, and command, signal, and communications?
Name the twelve principles of joint operations.
What are objective, offensive, mass, maneuver, economy of force, unity of command, security, surprise, simplicity, restraint, perseverance, legitimacy?
BONUS: Air Force recognizes Unity of Effort as a 13th principle
Compare/contrast the VUCA challenges to VUCA Prime.
Volatile - Vision
Uncertain - Understanding
Complex - Clarity
Ambiguous - Agility
Compare/constract: JFACC vs. COMAFFOR
If different person: JFACC has TACON and COMAFFOR has OPCON and ADCON.