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| the commander's clear and concise expression of what the force must do and the conditions the force must establish to accomplish the mission |
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| _____ is the most essential attribute to decision making process |
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| Which of the following choices best summarizes the attributes and importance of mission command in today's complex environment? |
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| Mission command is a continual effort to understand the environment, clearly convey the intent of the operation, and build trust with subordinates and partners. |
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| Rather than defaulting to a joint task force (JTF) task organization comprised of Service forces components and functional components, which of the following statements best describes another option that field commanders have to craft their task organization? |
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| Field commanders are establishing both battlespace owners (BSOs), and functional task forces aligned within a logical battlespace geometry to support their concept of operations. |
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Special Operations forces (SOF)
Air power
Engineers
Intelligence
Quick response Force (QRF)
Casualty evacuation (CASEVAC) |
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| Examples of joint players |
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| Boundaries are potential seams in |
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Understanding the adversary and local population
Coherently working with our partners |
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| In developing boundaries, commanders and staff should analyze: |
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Social aspects
Physical aspects
Adversary aspects
Political boundaries
other agency boundaries |
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| a commander or individual assigned responsibility for coordinating specific functions or activities involving forces of two or more Military Departments or two or more forces of the same service. The commander or individual has the authority to require consultation between the agencies involve, but not the authority to compel agreement. |
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| Military forces operating in another sovereign country must account for certain limits to their actions in achieving full situational awareness. Which of the following is a battlespace geometry key insight that explains why their actions may be limited? |
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| Host nation and non-coalition players may not recognize or heed the military-centric viewpoint of BSO joint operating areas (JOA) and areas of operation (AO). |
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| What are three responsibilities which remain with the Battlespace Owner? |
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The Battlespace owner
-Is normally the supported commander
-Must synchronies lethal and non lethal actions
-Manage Land force use of terrain
-Maintain situation awareness (Friendly, Enemy, Neutral and non-combatant)
-Establish and control fire support coordination measure |
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| Operational control (OPCON) |
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| is the authority to perform those functions of command over subordinate forces involving organizing and employing commands and forces, assigning tasks, designating objectives, and giving authoritative direction necessary to accomplish the mission. |
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| What are three responsibilities which remain with the Battlespace Owner? |
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Is normally the supported commander
Must synchronise lethal and non lethal actions
Manage Land force use of terrain
Maintain situation awareness (Friendly, Enemy, Neutral and non-combatant)
Establish and control fire support coordination measures |
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| Which of the following can be described as the most powerful command relationship in terms of gaining access to additional capabilities |
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| There will normally be multiple, concurrent supported and supporting commanders - often the commanders will be in mutual support. What best practice has been shown to effectively deal with this solution? |
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| The establishing authority must give clear direction to subordinates in terms of priorities and intent to allow subordinates to work horizontally with each other in accomplishing tasks |
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| List two things which can improve a supported commander’s use of TACON forces. |
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Getting command relationships right up front is absolutely critical to the success of the mission.
OPCON provides for "ownership" of the forces. It allows the commander to task both "what to do" and “how to employ.” It requires expertise in planning and employment. It remains the preferred command relationship over forces that the commander will continuously own and employ, and for which he and his staff have the expertise and capability to command and control.
We often see supporting commanders providing forces TACON to a supported commander. A very effective use is the supporting commander horizontally providing ground or SOF forces TACON to a supported commander. The key significance is that it is the supporting commander directly delegating the TACON authority. This TACON authority provides for unity of command, and agility, at the tip of the spear – at the tactical level. This delegation of TACON, or in some cases a direct support relationship, has been noted as a best practice.
Two key insights that can improve TACON are:
Clarify the general mission sets that the TACON force is organized for and capable of performing, and as the gaining command you should also…
Clarify your specific authorities over the TACON force. These specific authorities may include: tasking authority within the general mission set direction dictated by the higher command, positioning authority, authority to set priorities, mission approval authorities, and authority to further impose support command relationships to allow agility of operations. A matrix much like that laid out in Army doctrine and shown in this table, can help lay out the delineation / clarification of authorities. |
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