CAPTAINS CAREER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔Offensive - ✔✔Seize, retain, and exploit the initiative. Offensive action is the most
effective and decisive way to attain a clearly defined common objective. Offensive
operations are the means by which a military force seizes and maintains the initiative
while maintaining freedom of action and achieving decisive results. This is
fundamentally true across all levels of war.
✔✔Security - ✔✔Never permit the enemy to acquire an unexpected advantage. Security
enhances freedom of action by reducing vulnerability to hostile acts, influence, or
surprise. Security results from the measures taken by a commander to protect his
forces. Knowledge of enemy strategy, tactics, and doctrine, and staff planning improve
the detailed planning of adequate security measures.
✔✔Economy of Force - ✔✔Employ all combat power available in the most effective way
possible; allocate minimum combat power to secondary effects. Economy of force is the
judicious employment and distribution of forces. No part of the force should ever be left
without purpose. The allocation of available combat power to such tasks as limited
attacks, defense, delays, deception, or even retrograde operations is measured in order
to achieve mass elsewhere on the battlefield at the decisive point and time.
✔✔Maneuver - ✔✔Place the enemy in a position of disadvantage through the flexible
application of combat power. Maneuver is the movement of forces in relation to the
enemy to gain positional advantage. Effective maneuver keeps the enemy off balance
and protects the force. It is used to exploit successes, to pressure freedom of action,
and to reduce vulnerability. It continually poses new problems for the enemy by
rendering his actions ineffective, eventually leading to defeat.
✔✔Unity of Command - ✔✔For every objective, seek unity of command and unity of
effort. At all levels of war, employment of military forces in a manner that masses
combat power toward a common objective requires unity of command and unity of
effort. Unity of command means that all forces are under one responsible commander. It
SURE A+
✔✔Offensive - ✔✔Seize, retain, and exploit the initiative. Offensive action is the most
effective and decisive way to attain a clearly defined common objective. Offensive
operations are the means by which a military force seizes and maintains the initiative
while maintaining freedom of action and achieving decisive results. This is
fundamentally true across all levels of war.
✔✔Security - ✔✔Never permit the enemy to acquire an unexpected advantage. Security
enhances freedom of action by reducing vulnerability to hostile acts, influence, or
surprise. Security results from the measures taken by a commander to protect his
forces. Knowledge of enemy strategy, tactics, and doctrine, and staff planning improve
the detailed planning of adequate security measures.
✔✔Economy of Force - ✔✔Employ all combat power available in the most effective way
possible; allocate minimum combat power to secondary effects. Economy of force is the
judicious employment and distribution of forces. No part of the force should ever be left
without purpose. The allocation of available combat power to such tasks as limited
attacks, defense, delays, deception, or even retrograde operations is measured in order
to achieve mass elsewhere on the battlefield at the decisive point and time.
✔✔Maneuver - ✔✔Place the enemy in a position of disadvantage through the flexible
application of combat power. Maneuver is the movement of forces in relation to the
enemy to gain positional advantage. Effective maneuver keeps the enemy off balance
and protects the force. It is used to exploit successes, to pressure freedom of action,
and to reduce vulnerability. It continually poses new problems for the enemy by
rendering his actions ineffective, eventually leading to defeat.
✔✔Unity of Command - ✔✔For every objective, seek unity of command and unity of
effort. At all levels of war, employment of military forces in a manner that masses
combat power toward a common objective requires unity of command and unity of
effort. Unity of command means that all forces are under one responsible commander. It
