Army Operational Concepts Quiz

The Army’s Operational Concept is:

• Created as an example for other services to follow.

• Unified Land Operations.

• A construct that facilitates the understanding of the enemy, terrain, and civil considerations.

• Multidomain Operations.

‘The combined arms employment of all joint and Army capabilities to create and exploit relative advantages that achieve objectives, defeat enemy forces, and consolidate gains on behalf of joint force commanders’ is a description of:

• Multidomain operations

• Airborne operations

• Future Combat Systems (FCS)

• Maneuver Warfighting Function

True or False. The ‘U.S. Army in Multi-Domain Operations 2028’ concept proposes a series of solutions to solve the problem of layered standoff. The central idea in solving this problem is the slow and deliberate delivery of assets, in a single domain at a time.

• True

• False

The Army's approach to command and control that empowers subordinate decision-making and decentralized execution appropriate to the situation:

• OPORD

• FRAGORD

• Warfighting Functions

• Mission Command

This concept facilitates Command and Control, and operates on a principle whereby the commander tells his subordinates ‘What to do,’ not ‘How to do it:’

• Combat Power

• OPORDs

• Mission Command

• Intelligence

The tasks of the Command and Control Warfighting Function are: Command forces; Control operations; Drive the operations process; and

• Provide Combat Power

• Provide Engineer Support

• Establish the maintenance system

• Establish the command and control system

True or False. Command and Control is the exercise of authority and direction by a properly designated commander over assigned and attached forces in the accomplishment of the mission.

• True

• False

Mission Command is guided by seven (7) principles from the list below: (Circle the seven that apply).

• Shared understanding

• Competence

• Trust

• Risk acceptance

• Mission orders