TBS PHASE 3 CORE EXAM SET QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS MARKED A+
✔✔Offensive Fire Control Measures - ✔✔Target Precedence
Engagement Criteria
Minimum Safe Lines/Coordination Lines
Rates of fire
Displacement criteria: MORT
✔✔Defensive Control Measures - ✔✔Target Precedence
Engagement Criteria
Trigger Lines
FPL/PDF
Displacement Criteria
✔✔Defense Definition - ✔✔According to MCDP 1-0, a defense is "A coordinated effort
to defeat an attack by an opposing force and prevent it from achieving its objectives."
✔✔Characteristics of the Defense - ✔✔Maneuver
Preparation
Mass and Concentration
Flexibility
Use of terrain
Mutual Support
Defense in Depth
Surprise
Knowledge of the enemy
Local security
✔✔Mobile Defense - ✔✔Destroys an attacking enemy through maneuver and offensive
action. The commander retains the majority of available combat power in a reserve as
the main effort to affect a counterattack.
✔✔Area Defense - ✔✔Distributes the bulk of the defending force on terrain where the
decisive battle is to be fought. Principal reliance is placed on the ability of the forces in
the defended localities to maintain their positions and to control the terrain between
them.
✔✔Retrograde - ✔✔Involves organized movement away from the enemy. A transitional
operation, the retrograde defense occurs within a larger scheme designed to regain the
initiative from the enemy.
✔✔Defensive Methods - ✔✔Battle position defense
Strong point defense
Linear defense
, Perimeter defense
Reverse-slope defense
Sector defense
Combination of defensive methods
✔✔7 Steps of EA Dev - ✔✔1. Identify all likely enemy avenues of approach.
2. Identify the enemy most likely scheme of maneuver.
3. Determine where to kill the enemy.
4. Emplace direct fire weapon systems.
5. Plan and integrate obstacles.
6. Plan and integrate indirect fires.
7. Conduct EA rehearsals.
✔✔Occupation Methods - ✔✔Crows Foot
Bent L
Combination
✔✔Security in the Defense - ✔✔Stand-To
LP/OPs
Patrols
Rearward Passage of Lines
✔✔Defensive Order SOM - ✔✔Type/Method of Defense
Distro of Forces
Orientation
Occupation Method
TCMs
Security Plan
✔✔Defensive TCMs - ✔✔Trigger Lines
TRPs
Target Precedence
Engagement Criteria
✔✔Frontal Attack - ✔✔An offensive maneuver in which the main
action is directed against the front of the enemy forces. An
attacking force normally uses a frontal attack to rapidly
overrun a weak enemy force.
✔✔Flanking Attack - ✔✔An offensive maneuver directed at the flank of an enemy,
minimizing the effects of the enemy's frontally oriented combat power. A flank can be
created by
engaging and fixing an enemy force through the use of fires prior to maneuvering.
SOLUTIONS MARKED A+
✔✔Offensive Fire Control Measures - ✔✔Target Precedence
Engagement Criteria
Minimum Safe Lines/Coordination Lines
Rates of fire
Displacement criteria: MORT
✔✔Defensive Control Measures - ✔✔Target Precedence
Engagement Criteria
Trigger Lines
FPL/PDF
Displacement Criteria
✔✔Defense Definition - ✔✔According to MCDP 1-0, a defense is "A coordinated effort
to defeat an attack by an opposing force and prevent it from achieving its objectives."
✔✔Characteristics of the Defense - ✔✔Maneuver
Preparation
Mass and Concentration
Flexibility
Use of terrain
Mutual Support
Defense in Depth
Surprise
Knowledge of the enemy
Local security
✔✔Mobile Defense - ✔✔Destroys an attacking enemy through maneuver and offensive
action. The commander retains the majority of available combat power in a reserve as
the main effort to affect a counterattack.
✔✔Area Defense - ✔✔Distributes the bulk of the defending force on terrain where the
decisive battle is to be fought. Principal reliance is placed on the ability of the forces in
the defended localities to maintain their positions and to control the terrain between
them.
✔✔Retrograde - ✔✔Involves organized movement away from the enemy. A transitional
operation, the retrograde defense occurs within a larger scheme designed to regain the
initiative from the enemy.
✔✔Defensive Methods - ✔✔Battle position defense
Strong point defense
Linear defense
, Perimeter defense
Reverse-slope defense
Sector defense
Combination of defensive methods
✔✔7 Steps of EA Dev - ✔✔1. Identify all likely enemy avenues of approach.
2. Identify the enemy most likely scheme of maneuver.
3. Determine where to kill the enemy.
4. Emplace direct fire weapon systems.
5. Plan and integrate obstacles.
6. Plan and integrate indirect fires.
7. Conduct EA rehearsals.
✔✔Occupation Methods - ✔✔Crows Foot
Bent L
Combination
✔✔Security in the Defense - ✔✔Stand-To
LP/OPs
Patrols
Rearward Passage of Lines
✔✔Defensive Order SOM - ✔✔Type/Method of Defense
Distro of Forces
Orientation
Occupation Method
TCMs
Security Plan
✔✔Defensive TCMs - ✔✔Trigger Lines
TRPs
Target Precedence
Engagement Criteria
✔✔Frontal Attack - ✔✔An offensive maneuver in which the main
action is directed against the front of the enemy forces. An
attacking force normally uses a frontal attack to rapidly
overrun a weak enemy force.
✔✔Flanking Attack - ✔✔An offensive maneuver directed at the flank of an enemy,
minimizing the effects of the enemy's frontally oriented combat power. A flank can be
created by
engaging and fixing an enemy force through the use of fires prior to maneuvering.
