CGSC F100 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
STUDY GUIDE
●● Army Force Management Model steps
Answer: 1) Determine strategic requirements, 2) develop required
capabilities 3a) Design organizations 3b) acquire material solutions 4)
develop organizational models 5)determine authorizations 6) document
org authorizations 7) acquire, train, distro personnel and equipment
●● Range of military operations across conflict continuum
Answer: military engagement, security cooperation, and deterrence;
crisis response and limited contingency operations; and large-scale
combat operations.
●● Unified action
Answer: the combination of Comprehensive approach (mil cooperation
with NGOs/IGOs) + whole of government approach (mil cooperation w/
OGAs) + unity of command in joint and multinational operations = unity
of effort
●● What are instruments of national power and what are their purpose?
Answer: DIME; national-level means our national leaders can apply in
various ways to achieve strategic objectives (ends).
,●● OPCON
Answer: Operational control is a delegate-able authority from COCOM
characterized by the ability to task and organize subordinate forces
●● TACON
Answer: Tactical Control is a delegateable authority from COCOM
characterized by limited control of movement and maneuver of a
subordinate force during a mission; no task organization control or
admin support
●● General support
Answer: support that is given to the supported force as a whole rather
than to a particular subdivision thereof.
●● Direct support
Answer: A mission requiring a force to support another specific force
and authorizing it to answer directly to the supported force's request for
assistance.
●● Mutual support
Answer: That support that units render each other against an enemy
because of their assigned tasks, their position relative to each other and
to the enemy, and their inherent capabilities.
, ●● Close support
Answer: support against targets or objectives sufficiently near the
supported force as to require detailed integration or coordination with
the fire, movement, or other actions of the supported force.
●● Offensive task
Answer: task conducted to defeat and destroy enemy forces and seize
terrain, resources, and population centers
●● Offensive tasks
Answer: movement to contact, attack, exploitation, and pursuit.
●● Movement to Contact
Answer: offensive task designed to develop the situation and establish or
regain contact
●● What is an attack and what forms are there?
Answer: offensive task that destroys or defeats enemy forces, seizes and
secures terrain, or both; ambush, counterattack, demonstration, feint,
raid, and spoiling attack.
●● Exploitation
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
STUDY GUIDE
●● Army Force Management Model steps
Answer: 1) Determine strategic requirements, 2) develop required
capabilities 3a) Design organizations 3b) acquire material solutions 4)
develop organizational models 5)determine authorizations 6) document
org authorizations 7) acquire, train, distro personnel and equipment
●● Range of military operations across conflict continuum
Answer: military engagement, security cooperation, and deterrence;
crisis response and limited contingency operations; and large-scale
combat operations.
●● Unified action
Answer: the combination of Comprehensive approach (mil cooperation
with NGOs/IGOs) + whole of government approach (mil cooperation w/
OGAs) + unity of command in joint and multinational operations = unity
of effort
●● What are instruments of national power and what are their purpose?
Answer: DIME; national-level means our national leaders can apply in
various ways to achieve strategic objectives (ends).
,●● OPCON
Answer: Operational control is a delegate-able authority from COCOM
characterized by the ability to task and organize subordinate forces
●● TACON
Answer: Tactical Control is a delegateable authority from COCOM
characterized by limited control of movement and maneuver of a
subordinate force during a mission; no task organization control or
admin support
●● General support
Answer: support that is given to the supported force as a whole rather
than to a particular subdivision thereof.
●● Direct support
Answer: A mission requiring a force to support another specific force
and authorizing it to answer directly to the supported force's request for
assistance.
●● Mutual support
Answer: That support that units render each other against an enemy
because of their assigned tasks, their position relative to each other and
to the enemy, and their inherent capabilities.
, ●● Close support
Answer: support against targets or objectives sufficiently near the
supported force as to require detailed integration or coordination with
the fire, movement, or other actions of the supported force.
●● Offensive task
Answer: task conducted to defeat and destroy enemy forces and seize
terrain, resources, and population centers
●● Offensive tasks
Answer: movement to contact, attack, exploitation, and pursuit.
●● Movement to Contact
Answer: offensive task designed to develop the situation and establish or
regain contact
●● What is an attack and what forms are there?
Answer: offensive task that destroys or defeats enemy forces, seizes and
secures terrain, or both; ambush, counterattack, demonstration, feint,
raid, and spoiling attack.
●● Exploitation
