CCC Common Core Combined Set
Initiative
Operational initiative is setting or
dictating the terms of action
throughout an operation. Individual
initiative is the willingness to act in
the absence of orders, when existing
orders no longer fit the situation, or
when unforeseen opportunities or
threats arise.
Decisive action
a. Decisive action—the continuous,
simultaneous combinations of
offensive, defensive, and stability or
defense support of civil authorities
tasks.
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Decisive action tasks
i. An offensive task is a task
conducted to defeat and destroy
enemy forces and seize terrain,
resources, and population centers.
ii. A defensive task is a task
conducted to defeat an enemy attack,
gain time, economize forces, and
develop conditions favorable for
offensive or stability tasks.
iii. Stability is an overarching 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.
iv. Defense support of civil
authorities is support provided by
U.S. Federal military forces,
Department of Defense civilians,
Department of Defense contract
personnel, Department of Defense
component assets, and National
Guard forces.
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Army core competencies
a. Combined arms maneuver is the
application of the elements of
combat power in unified action to
defeat enemy ground forces; to seize,
occupy, and defend land areas; and
to achieve physical, temporal, and
psychological advantages over the
enemy to seize and exploit the
initiative.
b. Wide area security is the
application of the elements of
combat power in unified action to
protect populations, forces,
infrastructure, and activities; to deny
the enemy positions of advantage;
and to consolidate gains in order to
retain the initiative
Mission command
Mission command is the exercise of
authority and direction by the
commander using mission orders to
enable disciplined initiative within
the commander's intent to empower
agile and adaptive leaders in the
conduct of unified land operations.
Six fundamental principles of Mission command
B- Build cohesive teams through
mutual trust
C- Create shared understanding
P- Provide a clear commander's
intent
E- Exercise disciplined initiative
U- Use mission orders
A- Accept prudent risk
Tenants of Unified Land Operations
F- Flexibility
I- Integration
L- Lethality
A- Adaptability
D- Depth
S- Synchronization
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Principles of joint operations
O- Objective
O- Offensive
M- Mass
M- Maneuver
E- Economy of force
U- Unity of command
S- Security
S- Surprise
S- Simplicity
R- Restraint
P- Perseverance
L- Legitimacy
IPB
Intelligence Preparation of the
Battlefield (IPB) is the systematic
process of analyzing the mission
variables of enemy, terrain, weather,
and civil considerations in an area of
interest to determine their effect on
operations.
Steps of IPB
D- Define the operational
environment
a. Defining the operational
environment results in the
identification of significant
characteristics of the operational
environment that can affect friendly
and enemy operations. This step also
results in the identification of gaps in
current intelligence holdings.
D- Describe environmental effects
on operations
a. Describes how characteristics
related to enemy, terrain, weather,
and civil considerations affect
friendly ops
E- Evaluate the threat
a. Understand how a threat/adversary
can affect friendly operations.
D- Determine threat
a. Identifies and develops possible
threat/adversary COAs that can
affect accomplishing the friendly
mission.
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Initiative
Operational initiative is setting or
dictating the terms of action
throughout an operation. Individual
initiative is the willingness to act in
the absence of orders, when existing
orders no longer fit the situation, or
when unforeseen opportunities or
threats arise.
Decisive action
a. Decisive action—the continuous,
simultaneous combinations of
offensive, defensive, and stability or
defense support of civil authorities
tasks.
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, CCC Common Core Combined Set
Decisive action tasks
i. An offensive task is a task
conducted to defeat and destroy
enemy forces and seize terrain,
resources, and population centers.
ii. A defensive task is a task
conducted to defeat an enemy attack,
gain time, economize forces, and
develop conditions favorable for
offensive or stability tasks.
iii. Stability is an overarching 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.
iv. Defense support of civil
authorities is support provided by
U.S. Federal military forces,
Department of Defense civilians,
Department of Defense contract
personnel, Department of Defense
component assets, and National
Guard forces.
2
, CCC Common Core Combined Set
Army core competencies
a. Combined arms maneuver is the
application of the elements of
combat power in unified action to
defeat enemy ground forces; to seize,
occupy, and defend land areas; and
to achieve physical, temporal, and
psychological advantages over the
enemy to seize and exploit the
initiative.
b. Wide area security is the
application of the elements of
combat power in unified action to
protect populations, forces,
infrastructure, and activities; to deny
the enemy positions of advantage;
and to consolidate gains in order to
retain the initiative
Mission command
Mission command is the exercise of
authority and direction by the
commander using mission orders to
enable disciplined initiative within
the commander's intent to empower
agile and adaptive leaders in the
conduct of unified land operations.
Six fundamental principles of Mission command
B- Build cohesive teams through
mutual trust
C- Create shared understanding
P- Provide a clear commander's
intent
E- Exercise disciplined initiative
U- Use mission orders
A- Accept prudent risk
Tenants of Unified Land Operations
F- Flexibility
I- Integration
L- Lethality
A- Adaptability
D- Depth
S- Synchronization
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, CCC Common Core Combined Set
Principles of joint operations
O- Objective
O- Offensive
M- Mass
M- Maneuver
E- Economy of force
U- Unity of command
S- Security
S- Surprise
S- Simplicity
R- Restraint
P- Perseverance
L- Legitimacy
IPB
Intelligence Preparation of the
Battlefield (IPB) is the systematic
process of analyzing the mission
variables of enemy, terrain, weather,
and civil considerations in an area of
interest to determine their effect on
operations.
Steps of IPB
D- Define the operational
environment
a. Defining the operational
environment results in the
identification of significant
characteristics of the operational
environment that can affect friendly
and enemy operations. This step also
results in the identification of gaps in
current intelligence holdings.
D- Describe environmental effects
on operations
a. Describes how characteristics
related to enemy, terrain, weather,
and civil considerations affect
friendly ops
E- Evaluate the threat
a. Understand how a threat/adversary
can affect friendly operations.
D- Determine threat
a. Identifies and develops possible
threat/adversary COAs that can
affect accomplishing the friendly
mission.
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