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X100-CGSC Questions with Detailed Verified Answers
Department of the Army's role Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Unified Land Operations; generating land force
capability
Western Way of War Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 1 - A heavy reliance on superior technology to offset inferior
numbers
2 - Discipline (& Organization)...interdependence on one another, fighting as part of an organization
not an individual
3 - Aggressive Military Tradition...Total Defeat/Decisive Victory and Destruction of the Enemy (war
without mercy)
4 - Challenge and Response Dynamic - ability to change to protect state (adapt or die)
5 - Power to finance...taxes, credit
Operational Art Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ The cognitive approach by commanders and staffs—supported by
their skill, knowledge, experience, creativity, and judgment—to develop strategies, campaigns, and
operations to organize and employ military forces by integrating ends, ways, and means.
Vision Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ A picture of the future framed by a values-based purpose that creates a path to
drive behavior, change and motivation
The Army Plan (TAP) Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 5 part plan that integrates, prioritizes and directs executing of
DA's Title 10 responsibilities; How the Department of the Army integrates efforts with national level
strategy and operations requirements of the CCDR
1 - Vision (Ends)
2- Strategic Plan (Ways)
3 - Planning Guidance (Means)
4 - Program Guidance Memorandum (Means)
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5 - Campaign Plan (Execute & Assess)
Tenets of Unified Land Operations Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Simultaneity
Depth
Flexibility
Synchronization
Unity of Command Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ The operation of all forces under a single responsible commander
who has the requisite authority to direct and employ those forces in pursuit of a common purpose
Joint Strategic Planning System (JSPS) Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Provides a formal structure in aligning ends,
ways, and means over time, and to identify opportunities and mitigate risk for the military in
shaping the best assessments, advice, and direction of the Armed Forces for the President and
SecDef; primary system by which the CJCS carries out USC-assigned statutory responsibilities of
assess, direct, and execute. Produces the Joint Strategic Campaign Plan (JSCP)
What is the Western Way of War in establishing the dominant military tradition (aggression)? Ans:
✓ ✓ ✓ Exporter of violence
Operational Design Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ A framework that underpins a campaign or major operational plan
and its execution; supports operational art with a methodology to enhance the understanding of
the OE and problem
1. Understand Strategic Direction & Guidance
2. Understand the OE
3. Define the Problem
4. Operational Approach
Ethics Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Branch of philosophy that deals with how we ought to live, with the idea of the
Good, and with the concepts such as "right and wrong" - considered the outward expression of the
inward system of beliefs
Interaction between operational art and operational design Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ A bridge between strategy
formulation and tactical art, linking national strategic aims to tactical combat and non-combatant
that must be executed to accomplish these aims. End-Ways-Mean
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X100-CGSC Questions with Detailed Verified Answers
Department of the Army's role Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Unified Land Operations; generating land force
capability
Western Way of War Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 1 - A heavy reliance on superior technology to offset inferior
numbers
2 - Discipline (& Organization)...interdependence on one another, fighting as part of an organization
not an individual
3 - Aggressive Military Tradition...Total Defeat/Decisive Victory and Destruction of the Enemy (war
without mercy)
4 - Challenge and Response Dynamic - ability to change to protect state (adapt or die)
5 - Power to finance...taxes, credit
Operational Art Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ The cognitive approach by commanders and staffs—supported by
their skill, knowledge, experience, creativity, and judgment—to develop strategies, campaigns, and
operations to organize and employ military forces by integrating ends, ways, and means.
Vision Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ A picture of the future framed by a values-based purpose that creates a path to
drive behavior, change and motivation
The Army Plan (TAP) Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 5 part plan that integrates, prioritizes and directs executing of
DA's Title 10 responsibilities; How the Department of the Army integrates efforts with national level
strategy and operations requirements of the CCDR
1 - Vision (Ends)
2- Strategic Plan (Ways)
3 - Planning Guidance (Means)
4 - Program Guidance Memorandum (Means)
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5 - Campaign Plan (Execute & Assess)
Tenets of Unified Land Operations Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Simultaneity
Depth
Flexibility
Synchronization
Unity of Command Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ The operation of all forces under a single responsible commander
who has the requisite authority to direct and employ those forces in pursuit of a common purpose
Joint Strategic Planning System (JSPS) Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Provides a formal structure in aligning ends,
ways, and means over time, and to identify opportunities and mitigate risk for the military in
shaping the best assessments, advice, and direction of the Armed Forces for the President and
SecDef; primary system by which the CJCS carries out USC-assigned statutory responsibilities of
assess, direct, and execute. Produces the Joint Strategic Campaign Plan (JSCP)
What is the Western Way of War in establishing the dominant military tradition (aggression)? Ans:
✓ ✓ ✓ Exporter of violence
Operational Design Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ A framework that underpins a campaign or major operational plan
and its execution; supports operational art with a methodology to enhance the understanding of
the OE and problem
1. Understand Strategic Direction & Guidance
2. Understand the OE
3. Define the Problem
4. Operational Approach
Ethics Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Branch of philosophy that deals with how we ought to live, with the idea of the
Good, and with the concepts such as "right and wrong" - considered the outward expression of the
inward system of beliefs
Interaction between operational art and operational design Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ A bridge between strategy
formulation and tactical art, linking national strategic aims to tactical combat and non-combatant
that must be executed to accomplish these aims. End-Ways-Mean
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