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ADP 3-0 The Army's basic warfighting doctrine and the Army's contribution to unified action.

Describe the focus of security task It is what the CAV forces are to protect and why. It describes the expected results of the security operation.

How are offensive tasks characterized?

By surprise, concentration, tempo and audacity.

How can CDR and staff further focus RECON efforts?

By assigning specific RECON objectives.

How does attack differ from movement to contact?

In an attack the commanders knows part of the enemy's disposition.

How does the CDR establish the rear guard during retrograde operations?

1. The guarding force relieves other units in place as they move to the rear.

2. The guarding force establishes a position in depth behind the main body and passes those forces through.

How does the guard force differ from a screen?

It differs in that the guard force contains sufficient combat power to defeat, cause to withdraw, or fix lead threat elements before they can engage the protected force.

How long would CAV units man long duration OPs? Greater than 12 hours Operation a sequence of tactical actions with a common purpose or unifying theme Pertaining to screens, what decision point marks a transition fro security operations to offensive or defensive operations?

Displacement of a screening unit.

Pertaining to security guidance, what does the CDR provides?

Clear security guidance that offers freedom of ACTION AND DIRECTION TO ENSURE THAT THEIR ORGANIC CAV FORCES CAN ACCOMPLISH STATED OBJECTIVE WITHIN THE REQUIRED TIMEFRAME. Tempo affects whether CAV units will employ short- or long duration OPs. How long would they man short duration OP? Periods less than 12 hours.

True of False. Infiltration is normally used in conjunction with and in support of the other forms of offensive maneuvers.

True.

True or False. A covering force is tactically self-contained and capable of operating independently from the main body.

True.

True or False. A search and attack is conducted primarily by dismounted infantry forces and often supported by armor, mechanized, and Stryker equipped forces.

True Unified Land Operations Describes how the Army seizes, retains, and exploits the initiative to gain and maintain position of relative advantage in *sustained land operations through simultaneous offensive, defensive and *stability operations.

What are distinct tactical combinations of fire and movement with a unique set of doctrinal characteristics that differ primarily in the relationship between the maneuvering force and the enemy?

Forms of maneuver.

What are encirclement operations?

Operations where one force loses its freedom of maneuver because an opposing force is able to isolate it by controlling all ground lines of communication and reinforcement.

What are examples of high-value assets in major operations?

1. Major power generation facilities.

2. Airports, seaports and other centers of mass transit.

3. Industrial complexes.

4. Cities 5. Dislocated civilian camps What are examples of high-value assets in stability operations?

1. Government officials and political and military leaders.

2. Government facilities.

3. High-value detainee 4. Pipelines and relay stations What are high-value assets?

Those whose capture or destruction by the enemy could decisively change the course of the operation.

What are lines of communications (LOCs)?

A route, either land, water, and/or air, that connects an operating military force with a base of operations and along which supplies and military forces move.

What are linkup points?

Where two infiltrating elements in the same or different infiltration lanes are scheduled to meet to consolidate before proceeding on with their mission. Requires cover and concealment.

What are NAIs? Named area of interest. They provide a graphical method to focus CAV organizations as they execute security tasks.

What are offensive actions?

Combat operations to defeat and destroy the enemy forces and seize terrain, resources and population centers. They impose the commander's will on the enemy.

What are security missions to protect high-value assets?

An important component of area security in major combat operations an stability tasks.

What are some active measures to provide local security?

Patrolling and continuous recon.

What are some passive measures to provide local security?

Camouflage, movement control, noise and light discipline, proper communication procedures, ground sensors, night-vision devices, and daylight signals.

What are the 5 options the commander has once contact (movement to contact) is made with an enemy force?

1. Attack 2. Defend.

3. Bypass.

4. Delay.

5. Withdraw.

What are the different forms of RECON? 1. Zone 2. Area 3. Route 4. RECON in force 5. Special What are the different RECON assets and systems?

Sensors Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Signals intelligence What are the element of RECOM management?

Cueing, mixing and redundancy

What are the elements of convoy security?

Advance guard.

Security element.

Escort element.

Reaction force.

What are the forms of maneuver?

1. Envelopment.

2. Turning movement.

3. Frontal attack.

4. Penetration.

5. Infiltration 6. Flank attack.

What are the four elements of the commander's RECON guidance?

Focus Tempo of RECON Engagement/Disengagement criteria (if any) Displacement criteria What are the four primary offensive tasks?

1. Movement to Contact.

2. Attack.

3. Exploitation.

4. Pursuit.

What are the four terms used to describe temp? rapid; deliberate; stealthy, and forceful What are the fundamentals of RECON? 1. Ensure continuous RECON. 2. Do not keep RECON assets in reserve.

3. Orient and RECON objectives 4. Report all information rapidly and accurately 5. Retain freedom of maneuver 6. Gain and maintain enemy contact.

7. Develop the situation rapidly What are the fundamentals of security> 1. Provide early and accurate warning.

2. Provide reaction time and maneuver space.

3. Orient on the protected force, area or facility.

4. Maintain enemy contact.

What are the key roles of CAV units?

Conduct RECON Conduct security Cover threats Counter enemy cavalry Counterattack enemy Infantry attacks

Administer decisive blow through isolation and pursuit What are the major sources of fire power to suppress enemy fires during a turning movement?

Fixed-winged aircraft, attack helicopters, MLRSs that cover the entire route taken by the turning force.

What are the methods of RECON? Dismounted mounted aerial RECON by fire

What are the other tasks of area recon?

The same tasks as zone recon.

What are the phases of a screen?

Maneuver to screen line.

Occupy screen line.

Surveillance and counter recon.

Displace/maintain contact.

Passage of lines.

What are the primary forms of security?

Screen (stationary or moving) Guard Cover Area security Local security What are the primary tasks of area RECON? 1. Find and report all enemy in the area.

2. Reconnoiter specific terrain within the area.

3. report recon info.

What are the responsibilities of the guard force?

RECON, attacks, defends and delays as needed to provide reaction time and maneuver space to the protected force.

What are the security tasks? screen guard cover area security local security What are the subordinate forms of attacks?

Ambush, counterattack, demonstrations, feint, raid, and spoiling attack.

What are the subordinate tasks of movement to contact?

Search and attack and cordon and search.

What are the tasks of zone recon?

1. Find and report all enemy forces 2. Determine trafficability 3. Locate and determine the extent of contaminated areas.

4. Inspect and classify all bridges, overpasses, underpasses and culverts.

5. Locate and clear al mines, obstacle and barriers 6. Locate fords and crossing sites What are the three main tasks of turning movement?

1. Conduct a turning movement.

2. Conduct shaping operations.

3. Conduct reserve operations.

What are the three types of guard missions?

Advance guard.

Flank guard.

Rear guard.

What are the two Recon technigues?

RECON push and pull What are the two types of attack?

Hasty and deliberate.

What are the types of offensive cover?

Advance covering force.

Flank covering force.

What are vertical envelopment?

Tactical maneuvers in which troops, either air-dropped or air-landed, attack the rear and flanks of a force, in effect cutting off or encircling the force.

What can be used to effect a turning movement?

Vertical envelopment using air-assault.

What does ADM entails?

Framing an OE, framing a tactical problem, and developing an operational approach to solve the problem.

What does continuous recon provide the commander?

Constant flow of information in close contact with the enemy and civilian populace to identify and seize key terrain, confirm ot deny enemy composition, disposition and strength and course of action.

What does deliberate tempo implies?

All tasks of the mission must be accomplished to ensure mission success?

What does rapid tempo dictates? the level of detail for the RECON operation id limited to a certain prescribed list of tasks or PIR; appropriate when time is of the essence.

What does RECON focus define?

The CAV organization's area of emphasis and is made of four categories: threat, infrastructure, terrain and weather effects and society.

What does RECON pull emphasize?

Opportunity at the expense of detailed, well-rehearsed plan, and unity of effort.

What does RECON push emphasize?

Detailed, well-rehearsed planning.

What does "screen line" describe?

Only the trace along which the protecting unit is providing security, not the linear positioning of assets.

What does security operations provide?

Information about the enemy and terrain and preserve the combat power of friendly forces.

What does significant NAIs link?

Most dangerous threat activities to terrain where those activities may occur What does special recon support?

The collection of the JTF commander's priority intelligence requirement (PIR).

What does stealthy tempo emphasizes?

Avoiding the detection and engagement dictated by restrictive engagement criteria; used when time is available.

What does Tempo of RECON refer to?

The level of detail and covertness required of the CAV Organization to best accomplish either RECON or security tasks.

What does tempo of security relate to?

Tmp allows the CDR to establish associated time requirements that will drive security tasks planning; observation posts (OP), length of UAS rotation, log and COMMs support.

What does the CDR emphasize during the planning of a turning movement?

Resupply, maintenance, CASEVAC, graves registration. POW handling and dealing with indigenous population.

What does the initial screen represents?

Forward line of troops (FLOT) and it is considered a restrictive control measure requiring coordination when units move beyond it to conduct aerial surveillance and ground recon.

What i a flank attack?

A form of offensive maneuver directed at the flank of an enemy.

What information about the enemy does the CAV provide the CDR? combat information needed to strike at the right place and time, such as the actual size and composition of the enemy, his exact position, strength and weaknesses and location of decisive point.

What is a cover?

A brigade-level, force-oriented mission that protects the division or corps main body from detection or engagement by enemy forces attempting to delay or disrupt friendly operations.

What is a double envelopment?

Simultaneous maneuvering around both flanks of a designated enemy force.

What is a frontal attack?

A form of maneuver in which an attacking force seeks to destroy a weaker enemy force or fix a larger enemy force in place over a broad front.

What is a guard?

A security task to protect the main body by fighting to gain time while also observing and reporting information and preventing enemy ground observation of and direct fire against the main body.

What is air-assault?

The movement of friendly assault forces by rotary wing aircraft to engage and destroy enemy forces or to seize and hold key terrain.

What is an aggressive recon which develops information and intelligence in contact with the enemy to determine an exploit enemy weakness?

RECON in force What is an attack?

An offensive task that destroys or defeats enemy forces, seizes and secures terrain, or both.

What is an infiltration lane?

A control measure that coordinates forward and lateral movement of infiltrating units and fixes fire planning responsibilities.

What is an offensive task?

A task conducted to defeat and destroy enemy forces and seize terrain, resources, and population centers.

What is an offensive task that usually follows the conduct of a successful attack and is designed to disorganize the enemy in depth?

Exploitation.

Exploitation tends to disintegrate enemy forces to a point where they have no alternative but surrender or take flight.

What is area RECON?

Focuses recon efforts within a smaller geographic area than a zone recon but requires collecting the same information as well as information about dominant terrain outside the specified area.

What is area security?

A security task conducted to protect friendly forces, installations, routes snd actions within a specified area.

What is a RECON Objective?

A terrain feature, geographic area, or an enemy force about which the commander wants to obtain additional information.

What is a shaping operation?

An operation that creates and preserves conditions for the success of the decisive operation through effects on the enemy, other actors, and the terrain.

What is a single envelopment?

Maneuvering around one assailable flank of a designated enemy force.

What is a subset of area security?

Convoy security. Offensive in nature What is a sustaining operation?

An operation at any echelon that enables the decisive operation or shaping operation by generating or maintaining combat power.

What is a tactical mission task that encompasses all measures taken by a CDR to counter enemy recon efforts? counter-recon What is a transition?

When the commander makes the assessment that the unit must change its focus from one element of military operations to another.

What is a turning movement?

A form of maneuver in which the attacking force seeks to avoid the enemy's principle defensive positions by seizing objectives behind the enemy's current positions thereby causing the enemy force to move out of their current position or divert major forces to meet the threat.

What is cordon and search?

A technique of conducting a movement to contact that involves isolating a target area and searching suspected locations within that target area to capture or destroy possible enemy forces and contraband.

What is counter-reconnaissance?

An inherent task in all security operations. The sum of all actions taken at each echelon to counter enemy recon and surveillance efforts throughout the area.

What is cueing?

The integration of of one or more types of RECON systems to provide information that directs follow on collecting of more detailed information by another system.

What is decisive operations?

A sudden, shattering action that capitalizes on subordinate initiative and a common operating picture (COP) to expand throughout the AO. This operation directly accomplishes the mission.

What is defensive cover primary aim?

To force the enemy to reveal their main effort, to disrupt enemy's attacks, destroy their initiatives and sets the conditions for their defeat.

What is displacement criteria?

Triggers for planned withdrawal, passage of lines, or RECON handover between units.

What is engagement criteria?

Protocols that specify those circumstances for initiating engagement with an enemy force. They can be either restrictive or permissive.

What is envelopment?

A form of maneuver in which an attacking force seeks to avoid the principal enemy defenses by seizing objectives behind those defenses that allow targeted enemy force to be destroyed in their current positions.

What is infiltration?

A form of maneuver in which an attacking force conducts undetected movement through or into an area occupied by enemy forces to occupy a position of advantage behind those enemy positions while exposing only small elements to enemy defensive fires.

What is local security?

Local measure that prevents or interdicts enemy efforts.

What is MDMP? An iterative planning methodology to understand the situation and mission, develop a course of action, and produce an operation plan or order.

What is mixing?

Using two or more different assets to collect against the same intelligence requirement.

What is movement to contact?

An offensive task designed to develop the situation and to establish or regain contact What is Offensive cover?

Seizing the initiative early, allowing the main body commander freedom of maneuver.

What is penetration?

A form of maneuver in which an attacking force seeks to rupture enemy defenses on a narrow front to disrupt the defensive system. Destroying the continuity of the enemy's defense.

What is pursuit?

An offensive task designed to catch or cut off a hostile force attempting to escape, with the aim of destroying it.

What is Recon Handover?

The process of transferring information and responsibility from one element to another to facilitate observation of a specific target, enemy, or n assigned NAI/TAI. What is RECON in force?

A deliberate combat operation designed to discover or test the enemy's strength, dispositions, and reactions or to obtain other information. Conducted as a combined arms operation at the battalion force or higher.

What is reconnaissance?

A mission to obtain by visual observation regarding enemy activities or data concerning geography, meteorologic or hydrography of a specific area.

What is RECON pull?

Used when CDRs are uncertain of the composition and disposition of enemy forces and information concerning terrain is vague, and time is limited.

What is RECON push?

It is used when CDRs have a relatively thorough understanding of the OE. The CDR will push recon assets into specific areas of the operation to either confirm or deny and validate planning assumptions.

What is redundancy?

Using two or more like assets to collect against the same intelligence requirement.

What is required for a screen?

Employment of mounted and dismounted patrols, aerial recon, and OPs positioned over extended distance in depth.

What is route RECON? Directed effort to obtain detailed information of a specified route and all terrain from which the enemy could influence movement along that route.

What is search and attack?

A technique for conducting movement to contact that shares many of the characteristics of an area security mission.

What is special RECON? An operation conducted by special operations forces in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments to collect or verify information of strategic or operational significance.

What is the commander's best means of visualizing and understanding their area of operation?

Through the conduct of reconnaissance tasks What is the fundamental purpose of Cavalry?

To set conditions for successful operations of the unit for which they are conducting recon and security tasks.

What is the main difference between flank cover and flank guard missions?

The scope of operations and the distance the covering force operates from the main body.

What is the primary difference between a flank attack and an envelopment?

The primary difference is one of depth. A flank attack is directed at the enemy's flank; an envelopment is an attack delivered beyond the enemy's flank and into their support areas.

What is the primary purpose of screen?

To provide early warning to the main body. It provides less protection than guard.

What is the primary source of fresh information for the CDR during battle?

His RECON and security organizations; his Cavalry What is the purpose of ADM? To assist the CDR and Staff to understand, visualize, and describe the OE and the operational approach to the problem.

What is the purpose of area security?

To preserve the CDR's freedom of maneuver, ability to move reserves, positioning of fire support assets, provide effective mission command, and conduct sustainment operations.

What is the purpose of a short duration OP? Established quickly to allow the CDR to take advantage of available time and to mass RECON assets through maximizing the number of OPs. What is the purpose of counter-recon?

To destroy, defeat, or repel all enemy recon elements within capabilities and following engagement criteria.

What is the purpose of forceful tempo?

To develop the situation through action by employing air and ground RECON, technical means, and both direct and indirect fire systems moving rapidly to develop the situation.

What is the purpose of Reconnaissance operations?

Allows commanders to understand the situation, visualize the battle, and make decisions.

What is the purpose of security operations?

Provides reaction time and maneuver space to enable decisions and protect the force from anticipated danger.

What is the purpose of the advance covering force?

To locate and penetrate the security zone and forward defenses of an enemy force deployed to defend and to destroy enemy recon, advance guard units and irst- echelon units of a move enemy force.

What is the purpose of the CAV units performing security tasks?

To provide early warning and reaction time, deny enemy reconnaissance efforts, and protect the main battle area.

What is the reason for route security?

To prevent enemy forces from affecting freedom of maneuver along a protected route. Defensive in nature What is transition?

Mark a change of focus and priorities between phases, or between ongoing operation and execution of a branch or sequel.

What is used for conceptual planning?

Army Design Methodology (ADM) What is zone RECON? Allows intelligence development on threat, terrain, infrastructure and society within a specified zone of operations.

What occurs when the covering force can no longer advance?

It transitions to a defense and prepares to execute a forward passage of lines of the main body.

What other types of recons are performed during recon in force?

Zone, area and route.

What provides reaction time and maneuver space for unpredicted enemy actions?

RECON What provides the BCT commander with tactical depth, freedom to maneuver, flexibility, and critical combat information?

RECON and security tasks What serves as the link between conceptual and detailed planning?

Operational approach What tasks does the covering force accomplish?

All tasks of the screening and guard forces.

When are screen missions appropriate?

When operations have created extended flanks, gaps, exist between major subordinate maneuver units.

Screens are defensive in nature.

When does a commander halts an offense?

When it results in complete victory and the end of hostiles, reaches a culminating point, or he receives a change in mission from a higher commander.

When is recon in force usually conducted?

In advance of the BCT movement to contact allowing the main body to maintain freedom of maneuver and mass combat power.