CGSC X100 ACTUAL 2026 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
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✔✔Pursuit - ✔✔offensive task designed to catch or cut off a hostile force attempting to
escape, with the aim of destroying it
✔✔Six forms of maneuver - ✔✔envelopment, turning movement, frontal attack,
penetration, infiltration, and flank attack.
✔✔Envelopment - ✔✔form of maneuver where attacking force avoids the enemy
defenses by seizing objectives behind those defenses to destroy the enemy in their
current positions.
✔✔Turning movement - ✔✔form of maneuver in which the attacking force avoids the
enemy's defensive positions by seizing objectives behind the enemy's current positions
thereby causing the enemy force to move out of their current positions or divert major
forces to meet the threat.
✔✔Infiltration - ✔✔form of maneuver in which an attacking force conducts undetected
movement through or into an area occupied by enemy forces to occupy a position of
advantage behind those enemy positions while exposing only small elements to enemy
defensive fires.
✔✔Penetration - ✔✔form of maneuver in which an attacking force seeks to rupture
enemy defenses on a narrow front to disrupt the defensive system.
✔✔Frontal attack - ✔✔form of maneuver in which an attacking force seeks to destroy a
weaker enemy force or fix a larger enemy force in place over a broad front.
✔✔Flank Attack - ✔✔form of offensive maneuver directed at the flank of an enemy.
✔✔Characteristics of offense - ✔✔surprise, concentration, tempo, and audacity
✔✔Purpose of defense - ✔✔create conditions for a counteroffensive that allows Army
forces to regain the initiative; Retaining decisive terrain or denying a vital area to the
enemy; Attriting or fixing the enemy as a prelude to offensive actions; Surprise action by
the enemy; Increasing the enemy's vulnerability by forcing the enemy to concentrate
subordinate forces.
✔✔defensive task purpose - ✔✔task conducted to defeat an enemy attack, gain time,
economize forces, and develop conditions favorable for offensive or stability tasks
✔✔Defensive tasks - ✔✔the area defense, the mobile defense, and the retrograde
, ✔✔Area Defense - ✔✔defensive task that concentrates on denying enemy forces
access to designated terrain for a specific time rather than destroying the enemy
outright
✔✔Mobile defense - ✔✔defensive task that concentrates on the destruction or defeat of
the enemy through a decisive attack by a striking force
✔✔Retrograde - ✔✔defensive task that involves organized movement away from the
enemy
✔✔Forms of defense - ✔✔Defense of a linear obstacle, Perimeter defense, Reverse
slope defense
✔✔Philosophy of mission command - ✔✔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
✔✔6 Principles of mission command - ✔✔Build cohesive teams through mutual trust,
create shared understanding, provide a clear commander's intent, exercise disciplined
initiative, use mission orders, and accept prudent risk.
✔✔Minimum essential stability tasks - ✔✔provide for minimum levels of security, food,
water, shelter, and medical treatment of civilians in your area of operations as you
encounter them
✔✔Primary army stability tasks - ✔✔Establish civil security
• Establish civil control
• Restore essential services
• Support to governance
• Support to economic and infrastructure development
✔✔Stability framework - ✔✔Distinct phases in which specific essential stability tasks
should be conducted:
Initial response phase - stabilize an operational environment in a crisis state
Transformation phase - post-conflict reconstruction, stabilization, and capacity-building
tasks
Fostering sustainability phase - long-term efforts to enable sustainable development
✔✔Security cooperation - ✔✔all Department of Defense interactions with foreign
defense establishments to build defense relationships that promote specific United
States security interests, develop allied and friendly military capabilities for self-defense
and multinational operations, and provide United States forces with peacetime and
contingency access to a host nation
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✔✔Pursuit - ✔✔offensive task designed to catch or cut off a hostile force attempting to
escape, with the aim of destroying it
✔✔Six forms of maneuver - ✔✔envelopment, turning movement, frontal attack,
penetration, infiltration, and flank attack.
✔✔Envelopment - ✔✔form of maneuver where attacking force avoids the enemy
defenses by seizing objectives behind those defenses to destroy the enemy in their
current positions.
✔✔Turning movement - ✔✔form of maneuver in which the attacking force avoids the
enemy's defensive positions by seizing objectives behind the enemy's current positions
thereby causing the enemy force to move out of their current positions or divert major
forces to meet the threat.
✔✔Infiltration - ✔✔form of maneuver in which an attacking force conducts undetected
movement through or into an area occupied by enemy forces to occupy a position of
advantage behind those enemy positions while exposing only small elements to enemy
defensive fires.
✔✔Penetration - ✔✔form of maneuver in which an attacking force seeks to rupture
enemy defenses on a narrow front to disrupt the defensive system.
✔✔Frontal attack - ✔✔form of maneuver in which an attacking force seeks to destroy a
weaker enemy force or fix a larger enemy force in place over a broad front.
✔✔Flank Attack - ✔✔form of offensive maneuver directed at the flank of an enemy.
✔✔Characteristics of offense - ✔✔surprise, concentration, tempo, and audacity
✔✔Purpose of defense - ✔✔create conditions for a counteroffensive that allows Army
forces to regain the initiative; Retaining decisive terrain or denying a vital area to the
enemy; Attriting or fixing the enemy as a prelude to offensive actions; Surprise action by
the enemy; Increasing the enemy's vulnerability by forcing the enemy to concentrate
subordinate forces.
✔✔defensive task purpose - ✔✔task conducted to defeat an enemy attack, gain time,
economize forces, and develop conditions favorable for offensive or stability tasks
✔✔Defensive tasks - ✔✔the area defense, the mobile defense, and the retrograde
, ✔✔Area Defense - ✔✔defensive task that concentrates on denying enemy forces
access to designated terrain for a specific time rather than destroying the enemy
outright
✔✔Mobile defense - ✔✔defensive task that concentrates on the destruction or defeat of
the enemy through a decisive attack by a striking force
✔✔Retrograde - ✔✔defensive task that involves organized movement away from the
enemy
✔✔Forms of defense - ✔✔Defense of a linear obstacle, Perimeter defense, Reverse
slope defense
✔✔Philosophy of mission command - ✔✔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
✔✔6 Principles of mission command - ✔✔Build cohesive teams through mutual trust,
create shared understanding, provide a clear commander's intent, exercise disciplined
initiative, use mission orders, and accept prudent risk.
✔✔Minimum essential stability tasks - ✔✔provide for minimum levels of security, food,
water, shelter, and medical treatment of civilians in your area of operations as you
encounter them
✔✔Primary army stability tasks - ✔✔Establish civil security
• Establish civil control
• Restore essential services
• Support to governance
• Support to economic and infrastructure development
✔✔Stability framework - ✔✔Distinct phases in which specific essential stability tasks
should be conducted:
Initial response phase - stabilize an operational environment in a crisis state
Transformation phase - post-conflict reconstruction, stabilization, and capacity-building
tasks
Fostering sustainability phase - long-term efforts to enable sustainable development
✔✔Security cooperation - ✔✔all Department of Defense interactions with foreign
defense establishments to build defense relationships that promote specific United
States security interests, develop allied and friendly military capabilities for self-defense
and multinational operations, and provide United States forces with peacetime and
contingency access to a host nation
