ALC TACTICS LATEST 2026 TEST STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔What are the categories of terrain mobility - ✔✔Restrictive, Unrestrictive,
Severely Restrictive
Complex
✔✔What is the army's contribution to unified action - ✔✔Unified land operations
✔✔What is unified action - ✔✔The synchronization, coordination, and or intergration of
activities of governmental and non governmental entities with military operations to
achieve unity of effort
✔✔What are tactics - ✔✔The employment of units in combat
✔✔The art of tactics consists of what? - ✔✔The creative way to accomplish assigned
missions, decision making under adverse conditions, understand the affects of combat
on the soldier
✔✔What are the three types of tasks - ✔✔Specialized, Implied, Essential
✔✔What is unified land operations - ✔✔Central idea of how the army seizes retains and
exploits the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage and great
conditions favorable for conflict resolution
✔✔What does decisive action include - ✔✔Offense defense stability and defense
support of civilian authorities operations
✔✔What are the specific purposes of a patrol - ✔✔Gather intel on enemy terrain or
populace
Regain contact with the enemy or adjacent friendly forces
Engage the enemy in combat to destroy him or inflict loses
Reassuring or gaining the trust of the local populace
Preventing public disorder
Deterring and distrusting insurgent activity
Providing unit security
Protecting key infrastructure of bases
✔✔What is an offensive task - ✔✔A task conducted to defeat and destroy enemy forces
and seize Terrain resources and population centers
✔✔What is a defensive task - ✔✔Task conducted to defeat enemy attack gain time
economize forces and develop conditions favorable for offensive or stability tasks
, ✔✔What is a patrol - ✔✔A detachment sent out by a larger unit to conduct a specific
mission that operates semi independently and returns to the main body upon
completion of the mission
✔✔What determines if a patrol is mounted or dismounted - ✔✔Mett-tc
✔✔Where would the Psg normally be located when conducting zone recon - ✔✔With
the recon element
✔✔What team is used to establish and maintain covert observation of an obj for as long
as it takes to complete the patrols mission - ✔✔Surveillance team
✔✔When conducting area recon you are nearing the objective area. As the pl how
would you site in the forward release point - ✔✔In a well hidden area no closer than
200m from any enemy element
✔✔Zone recon may include several_________ or _________ recon missions assigned
to subordinate units - ✔✔Route, Area
✔✔7 fundamentals of Recon - ✔✔Do not keep recon assets in reserve
Ensure continuous recon
Orient on the recon obj
Report info rapidly and accurately
Retain freedom of maneuver
Gain and maintain enemy contact
Develop the sitiuation rapidly
✔✔What are the two tasks of the security element in zone recon - ✔✔Provide early
warning, and support by fire
✔✔What are the three types of wire obstacles - ✔✔Tactical, Supplementary, Protective
✔✔What are the primary tasks for the defensive operations - ✔✔Mobile Defense
Area Defence
Retrograde
✔✔What are the forms of manuver - ✔✔Envelopment
Turning movement
Infiltration
Penetration
Frontal attack
✔✔What is envelopment - ✔✔Attacking force seeks to avoid the principal enemy
defenses by seizing obj's to enemy rear or flank to destroy enemy in his current position
AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔What are the categories of terrain mobility - ✔✔Restrictive, Unrestrictive,
Severely Restrictive
Complex
✔✔What is the army's contribution to unified action - ✔✔Unified land operations
✔✔What is unified action - ✔✔The synchronization, coordination, and or intergration of
activities of governmental and non governmental entities with military operations to
achieve unity of effort
✔✔What are tactics - ✔✔The employment of units in combat
✔✔The art of tactics consists of what? - ✔✔The creative way to accomplish assigned
missions, decision making under adverse conditions, understand the affects of combat
on the soldier
✔✔What are the three types of tasks - ✔✔Specialized, Implied, Essential
✔✔What is unified land operations - ✔✔Central idea of how the army seizes retains and
exploits the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage and great
conditions favorable for conflict resolution
✔✔What does decisive action include - ✔✔Offense defense stability and defense
support of civilian authorities operations
✔✔What are the specific purposes of a patrol - ✔✔Gather intel on enemy terrain or
populace
Regain contact with the enemy or adjacent friendly forces
Engage the enemy in combat to destroy him or inflict loses
Reassuring or gaining the trust of the local populace
Preventing public disorder
Deterring and distrusting insurgent activity
Providing unit security
Protecting key infrastructure of bases
✔✔What is an offensive task - ✔✔A task conducted to defeat and destroy enemy forces
and seize Terrain resources and population centers
✔✔What is a defensive task - ✔✔Task conducted to defeat enemy attack gain time
economize forces and develop conditions favorable for offensive or stability tasks
, ✔✔What is a patrol - ✔✔A detachment sent out by a larger unit to conduct a specific
mission that operates semi independently and returns to the main body upon
completion of the mission
✔✔What determines if a patrol is mounted or dismounted - ✔✔Mett-tc
✔✔Where would the Psg normally be located when conducting zone recon - ✔✔With
the recon element
✔✔What team is used to establish and maintain covert observation of an obj for as long
as it takes to complete the patrols mission - ✔✔Surveillance team
✔✔When conducting area recon you are nearing the objective area. As the pl how
would you site in the forward release point - ✔✔In a well hidden area no closer than
200m from any enemy element
✔✔Zone recon may include several_________ or _________ recon missions assigned
to subordinate units - ✔✔Route, Area
✔✔7 fundamentals of Recon - ✔✔Do not keep recon assets in reserve
Ensure continuous recon
Orient on the recon obj
Report info rapidly and accurately
Retain freedom of maneuver
Gain and maintain enemy contact
Develop the sitiuation rapidly
✔✔What are the two tasks of the security element in zone recon - ✔✔Provide early
warning, and support by fire
✔✔What are the three types of wire obstacles - ✔✔Tactical, Supplementary, Protective
✔✔What are the primary tasks for the defensive operations - ✔✔Mobile Defense
Area Defence
Retrograde
✔✔What are the forms of manuver - ✔✔Envelopment
Turning movement
Infiltration
Penetration
Frontal attack
✔✔What is envelopment - ✔✔Attacking force seeks to avoid the principal enemy
defenses by seizing obj's to enemy rear or flank to destroy enemy in his current position
