Infantry ALC 3-17 Tactics (ULO,
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What is The Central Idea of ULO? - ANSis how the Army seizes, retains, and exploits the
initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage, and create conditions favorable
for conflict resolution.
What is tactics - ANSIs the employment of units in Combat ( It includes the ordered
arrangement and maneuver of units in relation to each other, the terrain and the enemy to
translate potential combat power into victorious battles and engagements)
What is Techniques? - ANSGeneral and detailed methods used by troops and commanders to
perform assigned missions and functions, specifically the methods of using equipment and
personnel
What are procedures - ANSStandard and detailed course of action that describe how to perform
tasks
What are the three interrelated aspects of the ART OF TACTICS - ANSCreative way to
accomplish missions, Decision making under adverse conditions, understanding the effects of
combat on the soldier
What is the science of tactics - ANSEncompasses the understanding of those military aspects of
tactics- capabilities, techniques, and procedures that can be measure and codified.
What do Unified Action Partners include - ANSJoint Forces, Multi-national forces, and U.S.
Government agencies.
ARMY Role= - ANSunified land operations
What is The ULO Goal? - ANSApply land power as a part of unified action to defeat the enemy
on land and establish conditions that achieve the commanders end state.
Army ULO is executed through - ANSDecisive action
Army ULO is conducted by means of - ANSArmy core competencies
Army ULO is guided by - ANSMission Command
, Decisive action includes - ANSOffense, Defense, Stability, and defense support of civil
authorities (DSCA) Operations. Missions in any environment require army forces to be prepared
to conduct any combination of these operations.
What is an offensive task - ANSTask conducted to defeat and destroy enemy forces and seize
terrain, resources and population centers.
What is a defensive task - ANSTask conducted to defeat an enemy attack, gain time, economize
forces and develop conditions favorable for offensive or stability tasks
What is a Stability task - ANSOverarching term encompassing various military missions, tasks,
and activities conducted outside the united states in coordination with other instruments of
national power to maintain or reestablish a safe and secure environment, provide essential
governmental services, emergency infrastructure reconstruction, and humanitarian relief.
What is DSCA? - - ANSTakes place only in the homeland, although some of its tasks are similar
to stability tasks. Always conducted in support of another primary federal agency
What are the eight elements of combat power? - ANSLeadership, Information, Movement and
Maneuver, Intelligence, Fires, Sustainment, mission command, and protection
How Does a commander apply combat power? - ANSThrough Warfighting functions using
Leadership and Information.
How does a commander apply leadership? - ANSMission Command
What enables commanders at all levels to make informed decisions on how to best apply
combat power? - ANSInformation
What are the six elements to the warfighting functions? - ANSMovement and maneuver,
protection, intelligence, mission command, fires, sustainment
Mission command encourages what from subordinates - ANSGreatest possible freedom of
action
While commanders remain the central figure in MC it enables subordinates to what -
ANSDevelop the situation
Movement and maneuver includes how many tasks? - ANS8
What are the tasks included in movement and maneuver - ANSDeploy, Move, Maneuver,
employ direct fires, occupy an area, Conduct mobility and counter mobility operations, conduct
recon and surveillance, employ battlefield obscuration