OCS Military History All Lessons-
A Co 501-19 fully solved graded
A+
-Conflict between organized groups with "Unknown Resolve"
- Each seeking to impose its will on the other - ANS ✔War
- Troops Marched in column formation
- 2 to 3 ranks, shoulder to shoulder
- Used successive volleys of fire
- Purpose was to mass greatest amount of firepower over a given area
- Tactics prevailed through WWI - ANS ✔Linear Tactics
- Used from 1600's to Pre-Civil War
- Max Effective Distance of 100m
- Highly inaccurate
- 3 Rounds per minute - ANS ✔Smoothbore Musket
- Any impediment to a commanders ability to wage war
- EX: Muddy roads, undisciplined troops, bad weather - ANS ✔Friction
All of a nation's armed forces in all campaigns - ANS ✔Strategic Level of War
In-theater forces; Where the battle or war is actually taking place—i.e. Afghanistan - ANS
✔Operational Level of War
, Individual field units (division or below) - ANS ✔Tactical Level of War
- Revolutionary War - 1775
- Took place near Boston Town on the Charlestown Peninsula
- Patriot forces actually occupied and fortified Breed's Hill. - English sacrificed the principals of
surprise and maneuver in an effort to publicly defeat and humiliate the American's in a frontal
assault.
- Patriots held the line, inflicting massive casualties on the British,
- Retreated after running dangerously low on ammunition. - Psychological victory for the
American's.
- Compare with Picket's Charge - ANS ✔Battle of Bunker Hill
- Revolutionary War - 1776
- British forces landed 32,000 soldiers on the shores of Staton Island NY.
- Washington split forces in an effort to meet British forces at both Staton and Long Island
- Violated the principal of mass.
- British forces continually out-maneuver Washington, forcing him to fall back several times
- Washington realized that he did not need to defeat the British only needed to assure his army
remain standing. - ANS ✔NYC Campaign
- Revolutionary war - 1776
- Washington crossed the Deleware on Christmas night with 4,000 untrained militia and 1,000
Short-time regulars.
- Despite low morale among his troops and austere weather conditions, Washington inspired his
men to keep moving forward.
- He separated his forces and using the principle of surprise,
A Co 501-19 fully solved graded
A+
-Conflict between organized groups with "Unknown Resolve"
- Each seeking to impose its will on the other - ANS ✔War
- Troops Marched in column formation
- 2 to 3 ranks, shoulder to shoulder
- Used successive volleys of fire
- Purpose was to mass greatest amount of firepower over a given area
- Tactics prevailed through WWI - ANS ✔Linear Tactics
- Used from 1600's to Pre-Civil War
- Max Effective Distance of 100m
- Highly inaccurate
- 3 Rounds per minute - ANS ✔Smoothbore Musket
- Any impediment to a commanders ability to wage war
- EX: Muddy roads, undisciplined troops, bad weather - ANS ✔Friction
All of a nation's armed forces in all campaigns - ANS ✔Strategic Level of War
In-theater forces; Where the battle or war is actually taking place—i.e. Afghanistan - ANS
✔Operational Level of War
, Individual field units (division or below) - ANS ✔Tactical Level of War
- Revolutionary War - 1775
- Took place near Boston Town on the Charlestown Peninsula
- Patriot forces actually occupied and fortified Breed's Hill. - English sacrificed the principals of
surprise and maneuver in an effort to publicly defeat and humiliate the American's in a frontal
assault.
- Patriots held the line, inflicting massive casualties on the British,
- Retreated after running dangerously low on ammunition. - Psychological victory for the
American's.
- Compare with Picket's Charge - ANS ✔Battle of Bunker Hill
- Revolutionary War - 1776
- British forces landed 32,000 soldiers on the shores of Staton Island NY.
- Washington split forces in an effort to meet British forces at both Staton and Long Island
- Violated the principal of mass.
- British forces continually out-maneuver Washington, forcing him to fall back several times
- Washington realized that he did not need to defeat the British only needed to assure his army
remain standing. - ANS ✔NYC Campaign
- Revolutionary war - 1776
- Washington crossed the Deleware on Christmas night with 4,000 untrained militia and 1,000
Short-time regulars.
- Despite low morale among his troops and austere weather conditions, Washington inspired his
men to keep moving forward.
- He separated his forces and using the principle of surprise,
