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| Deliberate Planning encompasses the preparation of plans for non-crisis situations. It is used to develop ________ for a broad range of activities based on requirements identified in the GEF, JSCP, or other planning directive. |
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| campaign plans and contingency plans |
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| Contingency plans are best understood as ________ to the overarching global or theater campaign plan. |
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| After a contingency plan is approved in deliberate planning, supporting combatant commanders, subordinate joint force commanders, component commanders, and combat support agencies prepare supporting plans. These supporting plans are normally reviewed and approved by the ________. |
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| Supported Combatant Commander |
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| The ________ is the task or set of tasks, together with the purpose, that clearly indicates the action to be taken and the reason for doing so. |
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| _____________ is a clear and concise expression of the purpose of the operation and the military end state |
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| The ________, JSCP, and related Strategic Guidance Statements (for top priority plans) serve as the primary guidance to begin Deliberate Planning. They specify the planning requirements, to include the level of planning detail for the various contingency plans. |
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| GEF - Guidance for the Deployment of Force |
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| The ________ is an orderly, analytical planning process, which consists of a set of seven (7) logical steps to examine a mission; develop, analyze, and compare alternative courses of action (COAs); select the best COA; and produce a plan or order. |
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| Joint Operation Planning Process (JOPP) |
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| Assumptions must be continually reviewed to ensure validity. A valid assumption has three characteristics: ________. |
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| logical, realistic, and essential for the planning to continue |
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| The process of ________ provides a means for the commander and staff to analyze friendly COAs by comparing them against anticipated adversary COAs, especially against the most likely and most dangerous adversary COAs identified through the JIPOE process. This process attempts to visualize the flow of the operation using the action, reaction, and counteraction method of friendly and opposing force interaction. |
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| During COA Comparison, the staff may use any technique that facilitates reaching the best COA recommendation and the commander making the best decision. A common, proven technique is the ________, which uses evaluation criteria to assess the effectiveness of each COA. |
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| What are the major levels of call-ups of the RC? |
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1)Full Mobilization
2)Partial Mobilization
3)Presidential Reserve Call-up
4) Involuntary Call-up |
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| Partial Mobilization (PM) |
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1) <= 1,000,000 for not more than 2 yrs.
2) Requires declaration of national emergency
3) Ready Reserve |
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| 1) Congress must be in session and declare war of national emergency |
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| Presidential reserve call-up (PRC) |
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1) >= 200,000 for 1 yr
2) No declaration of National Emergency
3) Select Reserve , up to 30,000 IRR
4) Terrorist |
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| Reserve Components now comprise almost what percentage of the Total Force? |
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| How many Reserve Components and name them: |
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| 7: Army National Guard, Army Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Navy Reserve, Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve, and Coast Guard Reserve. |
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| Operations conducted in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments to achieve military, diplomatic, informational, and/or economic objectives employing military capabilities for which there is no broad conventional force requirement are known as ________. |
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| Elite, highly trained military units that conduct operations that typically exceed the capabilities of conventional forces are known as ________. |
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| special operations forces |
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| Special operations are a(n) ______ part of the geographic combatant commander´s theater campaign plan. The majority of special operations are designed and conducted to enhance the likelihood of success of the overall theater campaign plan. |
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| Special operations must ________ – not compete with nor be a substitute for – conventional operations. Special operations differ from conventional operations in the degree of physical and political risk, operational techniques, mode of employment, independence from friendly support, and dependence on detailed operational intelligence and indigenous assets. |
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| Special Operations involve the use of small units of specially trained personnel using specialized tactics and equipment to achieve ________ objectives. |
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| _______________ is acquiring information concerning the capabilities, intentions and activities of an enemy. |
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| _______________ is measures taken to prevent, deter and respond to terrorism. |
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| Short-duration strikes and other small-scale offensive actions conducted as a special operation in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments and which employ specialized military capabilities to seize, destroy, capture, exploit, recover, or damage designated targets is called ________. It differs from conventional offensive actions in the level of physical and political risk, operational techniques, and the degree of discriminate and precise use of force to achieve specific objectives |
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| Special operations forces are organized under the ________, a functional combatant command responsible for providing mission capable special operations forces to the geographic combatant commanders. |
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| United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) |
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| Actions conducted as a special operation in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments to collect or verify information of strategic or operational significance, employing military capabilities not normally found in conventional forces are called ________. These actions acquire information concerning the capabilities, intentions and activities of an enemy. |
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| ________________ is providing training and other assistance to foreign governments and their militaries to enable the foreign government to provide for its country's national security. |
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| _________________ is planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. |
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| Military Information Support Operations |
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| After the attacks of 9/11, U.S. Special Operations Command assumed an operational role in leading the DOD effort in ________. |
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| global operations against terrorist networks |
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| Most special operations forces are ________ oriented. This allows them to maintain a cultural awareness and a language capability for their assigned areas. |
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| broad spectrum of military and paramilitary operations, normally of long duration, predominantly conducted through, with, or by indigenous or surrogate forces who are organized, trained, equipped, supported, and directed in varying degrees by an external source are known as ________. It is a core activity of special operations forces. |
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| Military-political considerations frequently cast Special Operations into clandestine or covert environments; therefore, their activities normally involve oversight at the ________ level. |
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| ____________ is activities that establish, maintain or influence relations between U.S. forces and foreign civil authorities and civilian populations to facilitate U.S. military operations. |
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| __________________ is operations designed to achieve information superiority by adversely affecting enemy information and systems while protecting U.S. information and systems. |
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| ____________________ is unified action by joint, interagency, intergovernmental and multinational community to sustain and assist host nation or regional security forces in support of a legitimate authority. |
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| Security Force Assistance |
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| _____________ is those military, paramilitary, political, economic, psychological and civic actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency |
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| Counterinsurgency (COIN) Operations |
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| The foundation of Army Special Forces is the basic unit, the Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA), also known as the "A-Team." The A-Team is capable of conducting operations in remote and hostile areas for extended periods of time; however, it has minimal ________. |
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| anti-armor or other heavy weapons |
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| The ________ is the premier light, airborne, infantry unit of the U.S. Army. |
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| The unique unit that provides support to special operations forces personnel on a worldwide basis with specially equipped helicopters is the ________. |
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| 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment |
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| The units that support military commanders by working with civil authorities and civilian populations in the area of operations are known as ________. These forces help minimize civilian interference with military operations, locate civilian resources to support military operations, and support national assistance activities. |
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| The units manned by Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen who operate and maintain state-of-the-art surface craft to conduct coastal patrol and interdiction and support special operations missions are known as ________. |
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| The 193rd Special Operations Wing of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard provides the only ________ platform in the Department of Defense with the EC-130 Commando Solo. |
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| airborne psychological operations |
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| The Air Force´s Battlefield Airmen or ________ Teams frequently operate with Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, and Special Forces in direct action, airfield seizure, and personnel recovery missions in hostile territory. |
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| This MARSOC element trains, advises and assists friendly host nation forces - including naval and maritime military and paramilitary forces - to enable them to support their governments´ internal security and stability, to counter subversion, and to reduce the risk of violence from internal and external threats. It has the capability to form the nucleus of a Joint Special Operations Task Force. |
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| Marine Special Operations Regiment (MSOR) |
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| Each geographic combatant command has a ________ to plan and control joint special operations forces in their areas of responsibility. It is a sub-unified command of the geographic combatant command and the source of expertise in all areas of special operations. |
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| Theater Special Operations Command (TSOC) |
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| When required, the joint task force commander may establish a ______, which is a temporary joint special operations forces command formed to conduct special operations in a specific joint operations area. |
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| Joint Special Operations Task Force (JSOTF) |
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Which one of the following is NOT a limitation of special operations forces?
Are a relatively small force
Possess minimal organic anti-armor and other heavy weapons
Cannot be regenerated rapidly in event of significant losses
Have little to no language or regional expertise |
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| Have little to no language or regional expertise |
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| Special Operations Forces are a valuable asset for the joint planner; however, they comprise only a small part of the total force - a little over ________ percent of the total force. |
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| In joint SOF mission planning, a demanding full-up, real-time ________ can mitigate much of the inherent risks of many SOF missions. It is key to the success of complex joint SOF missions. |
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Which of the following is NOT one of the SOF Truths?
Humans are more important than hardware.
Quantity always beats quality.
SOF cannot be mass produced.
Competent SOF cannot be created after emergencies occur. |
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| Quantity always beats quality |
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