Course 14 SNCOA DLC - Joint Warfighter: Progress Check & Formative Practice Test

Course 14 SNCOA DLC - Joint Warfighter: Progress Check & Formative Practice Test While briefing at the Group Commanders' Course, SMSgt Silvers says, "Sometimes commanders must use their understanding, experience, and talents to overcome difficult situations during combat." SMSgt Silvers' comment BEST explains _____. a. Contextual Elements b. Operational Art c. Operational Design - b. Operational Art RATIONALE: SMSgt Silvers' comments best identify Operational Art, which, according to the PSDJW chapter, is a thought process which uses skill (talents), knowledge (understanding), experience, and judgment to overcome the ambiguity and uncertainty of a complex environment and understand the problem at hand (overcome difficult situations during combat). CHAPTER: PSDJW (JW01) SOB: Identify PSDJW concepts and/or their impact on subordinate, SNCO, and mission effectiveness. While preparing to engage the enemy, the commander considers the nearest rivers, swamps, passes, choke points, and natural cover to give them the advantage. Because of her efforts, the mission was declared a huge success. This scenario BEST illustrates the ____________ impact on mission effectiveness. a. tactical actions b. interagency coordination c. unity of effort - a. tactical actions RATIONALE: According to the PSDJW chapter, tactical actions are battles, engagements, and or strikes conducted by combat forces of a single command or a JIIM, coordinated in time and place, to achieve strategic or operational objectives in an operational area. Tactics are at once a science and an art and includes the consideration of how ground forces use heights, rivers, swamps, passes, choke points, and natural cover. CHAPTER: PSDJW (JW01) SOB: Illustrate PSDJW concepts and/or their impact on subordinate, SNCO, and mission effectiveness. SMSgt Browning briefed his people about the military actions that will affect how his defenders will engage the enemy to protect an incoming convoy. Afterwards, subordinates noted how his keen attention to detail enabled them to accomplish the goal. This scenario BEST illustrates the ____________ level of war and its impact on mission effectiveness. a. operational b. strategic c. tactical - c. tactical RATIONALE: According to the PSDJW chapter, while resulting effects may be described as operational or strategic, military actions occur almost entirely at the tactical level. Since the scenario is about military actions, it illustrates the tactical level of war. CHAPTER: PSDJW (JW01) SOB: Illustrate PSDJW concepts and/or their impact on subordinate, SNCO, and mission effectiveness. While briefing a group of NCOs on the upcoming convoy mission, MSgt Lockhart says, "We need to be ready for individual engagements. Since we are a small unit, we need to focus on how our forces are employed and the specifics of possible engagements." MSgt Lockhart's briefing BEST identifies the ____________ level of war. a. operational b. strategic c. tactical - c. tactical RATIONALE: According to the PSDJW chapter, Airmen tend not to fight large-scale battles (as surface forces use the term) but focus at the tactical level on individual engagements and missions. The tactical level of air, space, and cyberspace warfare deals with how forces are employed, and the specifics of how engagements are conducted. CHAPTER: PSDJW (JW01) SOB: Identify PSDJW concepts and/or their impact on subordinate, SNCO, and mission effectiveness. Match the key terms listed below with the corresponding short descriptions. a. Doctrine b. National Military Strategy c. Joint Doctrine d. National Security Strategy e. National Defense Strategy f. Enduring Interests g. Policy h. Strategy i. ____ Security, Prosperity, Universal Values, and an International Order advanced by U.S. leadership. ii. ____ A document approved by the President of the United States that expresses vision, what the U.S. stands for, and a sensing of how the instruments of national power will be arrayed. iii. ____ A document approved by the CJCS for distributing and applying military power to attain NSS and NDS objectives. iv. ____ Originates in policy and addresses broad objectives, along with the designs and plans for achieving them. v. ____ Fundamental principles by which the military forces or elements guide their actions in support of national objectives. It is authoritative but requires judgment in application. vi. ____ A document that may change due to changes in national leadership, political considerations, or for fiscal reasons. vii. ____ Fundamental principles that guide the employment of U.S. military forces in coordinated action toward a common objective. viii. ____ Outlines the DOD approach to implement the President's NSS. - i. _F_ Security, Prosperity, Universal Values, and an International Order advanced by U.S. leadership. ii. _D_ A document approved by the President of the United States that expresses vision, what the U.S. stands for, and a sensing of how the instruments of national power will be arrayed. iii. _B_ A document approved by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) for distributing and applying military power to attain National Security Strategy (NSS) and National Defense Strategy (NDS) objectives. iv. _H_ Originates in policy and addresses broad objectives, along with the designs and plans for achieving them.