strategy and tactics
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- define command and control
- the exercise of athority and direction by a properly designated commander
- what are the three components of C and C
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-people
-equipment
-facilities to provide info - what is the purpose of ROE
- they are responses to certain situations that are spelled out by unified commanders before going into combat
- describe the CWC concept
- it provides decentralized command and control of the force, also uses command by negation, CWC maintains big picture without getting bogged down with minute details
- what is the CDC
- it provides command and control stations with tactical and strategic info correllated from all sources
- what are the conditions of readiness
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-Condition I-combat posture-maximim readiness
-Condition II - modified GQ
-Condidion III - wartime cruising
-Condition IV - peacetime cruising - what are the warning orders
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White - attack improbable
Yellow - attack probable
Red - attack imminent - what are the weapons control orders
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-Safe - only shoot in self defense
-tight - fire on contacts classified as hostile
-free - fire on anything not identified as friendly - what are the engagement orders
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-cover - maintain fire control solution
-take - engage specified contact
-cease fire - do not fire
-hold fire - do not fire; destroy missiles in flight - what are the principle objectives of SUW
- to deny the enemy the effective use of surface warships and cargo carrying capability
- what is GCCS-M
- the navy's primary command and control system
- what is a SAG
- surface action group - two or more ships detached to neutralize a target
- what are the 4 phases of SUW
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-Surface, Surveillance, communications, and Identification
-approach
-attack
-post-attack - what is USW
- militar operations and programs being conducted under the surface of the oceans
- what is air warfare
- the actions required to destroy or reduce the enemy air and missile threat to an acceptable level
- What is the Detect-to-Engage Sequence
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1. Detection-
2. Entry – track info into NTDS
3. Tracking
4. Identification- Identification Friend or Foe (IFF)
5. Threat evaluation
6. Weapons pairing- optimum weapon for a given threat
7. Engagement
8. Engagement Assessment- BDA - Basis for ROE
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1. National Policy
2. Operational Requirements
3. Law - Identify and briefly describe various Submarine roles/missions
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1) ISR
2) Precision Strike
3) Spec Ops
4) Peacetime Ops
5) Power Projection
6) Sea Control
7) Strategic Deterrence - Briefly describe the search and attack method for subs
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1. DETECTION
2. CLASSIFICATION
3. LOCALIZATION
4. TRACKING
5. ATTACK - Define and discuss the concept of Defense in Depth
- Defense in Depth concept- Air Warfare area encompassing the total region to be protected from enemy air attack
- Surveillance Area
- extends to max. detection range of the battle group
- Classification, Identification, and Engagement Area (CIEA)
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a. Fighter Engagement Zone (FEZ): Use planes and helo’s.
b. Missile Engagement Zone (MEZ): SAM.
c. Close-in Engagement Zone (CEZ): Use guns and CIWS
d. Joint Engagement Zone (JEZ): anything will due - Vital Area
- Extends from units to max. weapons range of enemy
- Strike Warfare
- Strike Warfare is the use of tactical aircraft and/or cruise missile strikes against land targets in an offensive power projection role
- Describe the 4 mission types of Strike Warfare
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i. Coordinated Strike: reduce the enemy's war-making capacity and logistic capability
ii. Interdiction: destroy targets which deny the enemy access to an area
iii. Armed Reconnaissance: destroy targets of opportunity
iv. Close Air Support: destroy enemy ground forces that present threat to friendly ground forces - Expeditionary Warfare
- comprises military operations mounted from the sea, usually on short notice consisting of forward deployed, or rapidly deployable, self-sustaining naval forces tailored to achieve a clearly stated objective
- Describe the 5 elements of Expeditionary Warfare
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i. Maritime Dominance
ii. Firepower
iii. Maneuver Dominance
iv. Air Dominance
v. Information Superiority - Describe 4 reasons for conducting an amphibious operation
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i. Prosecute further combat operations
ii. Obtain a site for an advanced naval, land, or air base.
iii. Deny use of an area or facilities to the enemy.
iv. Fix enemy forces and attention, providing opportunities for other combat operations - 4 Types of Amphibious Operations
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i. Demonstration: conducted to deceive the enemy
ii. Raid: swift incursion followed by a planned withdrawal
iii. Assault: attack
iv. Withdrawal: extraction of forces by sea based on strategic considerations - PERMA
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Planning
Embarkation
rehersal
movement
assault - 3 tactical considerations used in planning the AOA
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i. Natural hazards
ii. Vulnerability
iii. Battlespace Dominance - Maneuver Warfare
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-Warfighting doctrine based on rapid, flexible, and opportunistic maneuver
-gain a positional advantage maneuver faster than the enemy - Marine Corp Decision Making Process
- any decision is better than no decision
- Marine Corp Philosophy of Command
- subordinate commanders must make decisions on their own initiative, based on their understanding of their senior’s intent, rather than passing information up the chain of command and waiting for the decision to be passed down
- Marine Corp Mission Tactics/Orders
- tactic of assigning a subordinate mission without specifying how the mission must be accomplished. We leave the manner of accomplishing the mission to the subordinate, thereby allowing him the freedom he deems necessary based on the situation
- Marine Corp Commander’s Intent
- There are two parts to a mission: the task to be accomplished and the intent. Understanding our commander’s intent allows us to exercise initiative in harmony with the commander’s desires
- METT-T
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o M (mission): Who, What, Where, Why, How?
o E (enemy): Capabilities? Anticipate his moves
o T (terrain/weather): How will they affect?
- T (Troops and fire support availability)
o T (time available) - Eight pillars of the National Security Strategy
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1. Overview of America's International Strategy
2. Champion Aspirations for Human Dignity
3. Strengthen Alliances to Defeat Global Terrorism and Work to Prevent Attacks Against Us and Our Friends
4. Work with others to Defuse Regional Conflicts
5. Prevent Our Enemies from Threatening Us, Our Allies, and Our Friends with Weapons of Mass Destruction
6. Ignite a New Era of Global Economic Growth through Free Markets and Free Trade
7. Expand the Circle of Development by Opening Societies and Building the Infrastructure of Democracy
8. Develop Agendas for Cooperative Action with the Other Main Centers of Global Power - DIME
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D (Diplomacy)
I (Information)
M (Military)
E (Economic) - Joint Vision 2020 Operational Concepts
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⬢ Dominant Maneuver
⬢ Precision Engagement
⬢ Focused Logistics: logistics for rapid response, track and shift logistics while enroute, deliver tailors packages directly to operations
⬢ Full Dimensional Protection: protects assets from space, air, ground, sea - Describe how we maximize our advantages versus an asymmetric threat and in the maritime domain
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o Exploit U.S. asymmetric strengths
- Information superiority, persistence, precision, mobility, stealth, reach, speed, lethality, and people
o Fully leverage international maritime domain
- Empower joint warfighting across the full extent of a unified battlespace