Mp Bolc Tacops Exam Q&A

MP BOLC TACOPS Exam Q&A What are the five forms of maneuver - ANSWER Envelopment Turning Movement Infiltration Penetration Frontal Attack What is an envelopment? - ANSWER Seeks to avoid the enemy's main defenses by seizing OBJ's to the enemy's rear and then destroy them in their current position. What is a Turning Movement? - ANSWER Attempts to avoid the enemy's main defenses and seize OBJ's to the enemy's rear and cause them to move out of their current position. What is an Infiltration? - ANSWER A covert movement where the attacker sneaks through enemy lines and seizes advantageous positions while exposing a minimal number of elements. What is a Penetration? - ANSWER Where the attacking force seeks to rupture enemy defenses on a narrow front and mass all available fires upon that point. What is a Frontal Attack? - ANSWER A form of maneuver where an attacking force seeks to destroy a weaker enemy over a broad front. It is the most costly. What are the four types of Offensive Operations? - ANSWER Movement to Contact Attack Exploitation Pursuit What are the three types of Defensive Operations? - ANSWER Area Mobile Retrograde What are the four Characteristics of the Offense? - ANSWER Surprise Tempo Audacity Concentration What are the three different Movement Techniques? - ANSWER Traveling Traveling Overwatch Bounding Overwatch What are the four S's for Raids? - ANSWER Speed Security Safeguard Specific Targeting What are you doing in an Area Defense? - ANSWER Retaining terrain What are you doing in a Mobile Defense? - ANSWER Focusing on the destruction of the enemy What are you doing in a retrograde defense? - ANSWER Organized movement away (buying time) What is a level 1 Threat? - ANSWER Terrorists, Rioters, etc. What is a level 2 Threat? - ANSWER Guerilla Forces