SGTS COURSE TACTICAL PLANNING CORE
REVIEW EXAMS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE
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✔✔Enemy Most Likely Course of Action (EMLCOA) - ✔✔Based on an increased
understanding of the situation through the detailed analysis (METT-T), turn the map
around, and ask yourself: "What would I do if I were the enemy?"
•Predict the EMLCOA or enemy scheme of maneuver. The detail required for an
EMLCOA is based on the tactical situation. However, there are two things that must be
considered when developing the EMLCOA.
The enemy's current tactical activity, which includes patrolling, location and orientation
of crew-served weapons, composition and orientation of his engagement area, LP/Ops,
etc.
The enemy's actions on contact; this is the enemy reaction when we impose our combat
power upon him.
✔✔Exploitation Plan - ✔✔As learned in MCDP-1, Warfighting, we aim to gain an
advantage over the enemy through exploitation of an enemy vulnerability. Leaders seek
to avoid surfaces (strengths) and exploit gaps (weaknesses) to gain an unfair
advantage. The careful consideration of enemy key strengths and weaknesses is a
critical aspect of scheme of maneuver development.
•The enemy's key strength is the element or capability that allows them to execute their
mission successfully. The enemy typically has many strengths; we must focus our
, planning on one. The key strength is critical to the enemy successfully executing the
EMLCOA.
•After identifying the enemy's key strength, attempt to identify an enemy key weakness
that, if attacked, will render the key strength ineffective.
•This analysis of the enemy key strength and weakness is critical to the development of
a plan that directly counters the EMLCOA. If the weakness is not targetable at the
leader's level, or if the strength is not directly tied to the EMLCOA, it is likely that the
plan will not decisively counter the enemy.
•The leader must now develop a method to directly target the enemy's key weakness.
This exploitation plan (EXP) may be a form of maneuver or employment of a particular
tactic, technique, or procedure. Whatever the method of exploitation, it will drive the rest
of the planning process.
✔✔Scheme of Maneuver and Fire Support Plan Development - ✔✔Keeping in mind the
nine principles of war and the six tactical tenets, the leader develops a concept to
achieve the exploitation plan with available combat power.
•In this way, the exploitation plan is used to achieve unity of effort when developing the
scheme of maneuver and associated fire support plan.
•The scheme of maneuver and fire support plan are developed concurrently to ensure
all assets are fully integrated to achieve the exploitation plan.
✔✔Tasks - ✔✔The leader must succinctly and effectively communicate the task that his
subordinate elements MUST accomplish to allow the mission to be a success.
•Tasks are developed to execute the scheme of maneuver.
•Leaders use standard language, known as tactical tasks, to ensure that the correct
action is taken.
•Tasks to subordinates answer the five Ws.
Who
What
When
Where
Why
✔✔METT-T - ✔✔Mission, Enemy, Terrain, Troops, Time
✔✔Mission Analysis - ✔✔Task analysis
Purpose analysis
✔✔Task analysis - ✔✔Each mission statement contains specified tasks. The unit leader
must understand those explicitly stated tasks as well as the implications of those tasks
required for the success of the mission. The leader must analyze the unit's specified
tasks, the purpose of the mission, and higher's coordinating instructions to identify all of
the specified and implied tasks.
✔✔Purpose Analysis - ✔✔Having an understanding of 'why' a task has been assigned
will directly impact the development of implied tasks. Furthermore, understanding the
REVIEW EXAMS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE
A+
✔✔Enemy Most Likely Course of Action (EMLCOA) - ✔✔Based on an increased
understanding of the situation through the detailed analysis (METT-T), turn the map
around, and ask yourself: "What would I do if I were the enemy?"
•Predict the EMLCOA or enemy scheme of maneuver. The detail required for an
EMLCOA is based on the tactical situation. However, there are two things that must be
considered when developing the EMLCOA.
The enemy's current tactical activity, which includes patrolling, location and orientation
of crew-served weapons, composition and orientation of his engagement area, LP/Ops,
etc.
The enemy's actions on contact; this is the enemy reaction when we impose our combat
power upon him.
✔✔Exploitation Plan - ✔✔As learned in MCDP-1, Warfighting, we aim to gain an
advantage over the enemy through exploitation of an enemy vulnerability. Leaders seek
to avoid surfaces (strengths) and exploit gaps (weaknesses) to gain an unfair
advantage. The careful consideration of enemy key strengths and weaknesses is a
critical aspect of scheme of maneuver development.
•The enemy's key strength is the element or capability that allows them to execute their
mission successfully. The enemy typically has many strengths; we must focus our
, planning on one. The key strength is critical to the enemy successfully executing the
EMLCOA.
•After identifying the enemy's key strength, attempt to identify an enemy key weakness
that, if attacked, will render the key strength ineffective.
•This analysis of the enemy key strength and weakness is critical to the development of
a plan that directly counters the EMLCOA. If the weakness is not targetable at the
leader's level, or if the strength is not directly tied to the EMLCOA, it is likely that the
plan will not decisively counter the enemy.
•The leader must now develop a method to directly target the enemy's key weakness.
This exploitation plan (EXP) may be a form of maneuver or employment of a particular
tactic, technique, or procedure. Whatever the method of exploitation, it will drive the rest
of the planning process.
✔✔Scheme of Maneuver and Fire Support Plan Development - ✔✔Keeping in mind the
nine principles of war and the six tactical tenets, the leader develops a concept to
achieve the exploitation plan with available combat power.
•In this way, the exploitation plan is used to achieve unity of effort when developing the
scheme of maneuver and associated fire support plan.
•The scheme of maneuver and fire support plan are developed concurrently to ensure
all assets are fully integrated to achieve the exploitation plan.
✔✔Tasks - ✔✔The leader must succinctly and effectively communicate the task that his
subordinate elements MUST accomplish to allow the mission to be a success.
•Tasks are developed to execute the scheme of maneuver.
•Leaders use standard language, known as tactical tasks, to ensure that the correct
action is taken.
•Tasks to subordinates answer the five Ws.
Who
What
When
Where
Why
✔✔METT-T - ✔✔Mission, Enemy, Terrain, Troops, Time
✔✔Mission Analysis - ✔✔Task analysis
Purpose analysis
✔✔Task analysis - ✔✔Each mission statement contains specified tasks. The unit leader
must understand those explicitly stated tasks as well as the implications of those tasks
required for the success of the mission. The leader must analyze the unit's specified
tasks, the purpose of the mission, and higher's coordinating instructions to identify all of
the specified and implied tasks.
✔✔Purpose Analysis - ✔✔Having an understanding of 'why' a task has been assigned
will directly impact the development of implied tasks. Furthermore, understanding the
