X100-CGSC 2025/2026 Complete
1805: Ulm-Austerlitz Campaign - ANS-With perceived threats from N. Italy and Eastern
France, Napoleon seized the initiative by striking Austrian forces in S. Germany before
Russians could get there.
Battle of Austerlitz - decisive victory through strategic reserve (Gave enemy the
highland...made them attack the weak (old way) and came around to defeat (decisive
action)); struck the enemy with deep, rapid, slashing maneuvers; utilized combined arms
Surprise - never gave the Prussian the ability to re-group
80 Years War (Dutch Model - 1568 to 1648) - ANS-- Tactical mix of musket & pike and new
control (new weapons & tactics) --> Fire by Row
- New style of leadership and more training
- Three principles from Lipisius - Doctrines of obedience, loyalty and service to state
- Organist reformers focused on discipline (1) achieved through professional officers, drill
and training; (2) Enabled commanders to plan and carry out sustained operations (vs.
mercenary); (3) idea that War is strategic, tactical, administrative, political and social
Acceptability - ANS-are the effects as well as the methods/resources used justified; do the
benefits outweigh the potential consequences/cost
Adaptive Organization - ANS-Reactive to changes and challenges, adjusts its processes and
performance to current conditions
Adjustment decision - ANS-A decision that modifies the operation to respond to
unanticipated opportunities and threats; often require implementing unanticipated operations
and resynchronizing the warfighting
Administrative Control (ADCON) - ANS-Administering and supporting Title 10 responsibilities
that include the authority necessary to fulfill military departments statutory requirements to
support CCDRs (organize, train, equip, mobilize); NOT a command relationship
Affiliative Leadership - ANS-Creates harmony and builds emotional bonds
Alliance - ANS-A relationship that results from a formal agreement between two or more
nations for broad, long-term objectives that further the common interests of the members.
Anticipation - ANS-Remaining alert for the unexpected and for opportunities to exploit the
situation; understand planned decision points and where/when to execute branch or sequel
Area Defense - ANS-Concentrates on denying enemy forces access to designated terrain for
a specific time rather than destroying them outright
Area of Influence - ANS-A geographical area wherein a commander is directly capable of
influencing operations by maneuver or fire support systems normally under the commander's
command or control.
Area of Interest (AOI) - ANS-That area of concern to the commander, including the area of
influence, areas adjacent thereto, and extending into enemy territory
Area of Operation (AO) - ANS-An operational area defined by a commander for land and
maritime forces that should be large enough to accomplish their missions and protect their
forces.
Area Reconnaissance - ANS-Focuses on obtaining detailed information about the terrain or
enemy activity within a prescribed area (very focused)
Army Command (ACOM) - ANS-Performs title 10 functions
,ACOMs = FORSCOM, TRADOC, AMC, AFC
Army Design Methodology (ADM) - ANS-1. Frame the OE (current state and desired
endstate)
2. Frame the problem
3. Develop an operational approach
4. Develop a Plan / Document Results
5. Reframe as required
Army Organizational Life Cycle Model (AOLCM) - ANS-How the Army manages to interrelate
processes to integrate, maintain, employ capabilities developed
1 - Force Management
2 - Acquistion
3 - Training
4 - Distribution
5 - Deployment
6 - Sustainment
7 - Development
8 - Seperation
Army Program Elements (APE) - ANS-Used to track resources from each element across
POM years; more than 5K in Army over 12 areas
Army Resource Priority List (ARPL) - ANS-Macro view of Army's requirements determination
process that allows for the categorization of validated requirements into four categories;
identified by GCC and approved by Army G-3/5/7.
Four categories:
Expeditionary Capability
Mission Critical Capability
Mission Essential Capability
Mission Enhancing Capability
Army Service Component Command (ASCC) - ANS-Senior Army Command assigned to a
given CCDR (Theater Army); provides Title 10 support to the CCDR
Army Title 10 Functions - ANS-MOSTDEMARS(Maintainting, Organizing, Supplying,
Training, Demobilizing, Equipping, Mobilizing, Administering, Recruiting, Servicing) plus the
construction, outfitting, and repair of military equipment
Army's overarching Title 10 role - ANS-Department of the Army's role is to provide
capabilities associated within the land domain to Combatant Commanders
Arranging Operations - ANS-The best arrangement of joint force and component operations
to conduct the assigned tasks and joint force mission
Artifacts - ANS-Visible and feelable structures / processes or observed behavior
Based on a Commander's visualization of the problem, what does he provide to his staff? -
ANS-Planning Guidance
Basic Underlying assumptions - ANS-Unconscious, taken-for-granted beliefs and values
Basis of Issue Plan (BOIP) - ANS-A requirements document that states the planned
placement of new equipment and associated items/personnel based on provided capability
development documents
Big 5 - ANS-Abrams Tank
Bradley
Apache
Blackhawk
Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS)
, Big 6 priorities of Army Futures Command - ANS-1 - Long-range precision fires (LRPF)
2 - Next-gen combat vehicles
3 - Future vertical lift (FVL)
4 - Network Comms
5 - Integrated AMD
6 - Soldier Lethality
Bildung - ANS-Defined by Wilhelm von Humboldt during Prussian reform in the 1800s, it is
the systematic professional study and cultivation of decision makers; it is the idea that
education (not just training) is a lifelong process of human development.
- Prussians embraced this through: Recruitment; Officer Selection; Operational and Tactical
Techniques; High Command...created Staff officers to help with planning and OPCON;
fostered collective wisdom
Branch Plan - ANS-Contingency options built into the base plan used for changing the
mission, orientation or direction of movement of a force (anticipated situation that required
changes to base plan)
Brigade Support Battalion (BSB) - ANS-Primary sustainment org designed to provide the
BCT logistics and heath service support to achieve freedom of action, prolong endurance
and win across ROMO
Budget Estimate Submission (BES) - ANS-first year of the POM
Campaign - ANS-A series of related major operations aimed at achieving strategic and
operational objectives within a given time and space.
Campaign Plan - ANS-A document approved by the unified combatant commander (CDDR)
and serves as an enduring plan for day-to-day operations in the area of responsibility (AOR).
CCDR Campaign Plan - ANS-Signed by individual CCDR; focuses on enduring operations in
their AOR/Day to Day operations; includes military engagement, security cooperation,
deterrence, and other shaping operations
CCDR role in Jus ad Bellum - ANS-advisor to SECDEF/civil authority; Congress makes the
decision
CCDR role in Jus in Bello - ANS-develop policies (no-strike lists), accountability (CCIRs),
training, readiness, discipline
Center of Gravity (COG) - ANS-A source of power that provides moral or physical strength,
freedom of action, or will to act
Characteristics of Offensive Operations - ANS-(SCAT) Surprise, Concentration, Audacity,
Tempo
Class I - ANS-Rations, issue of health, morale, and welfare items such as water and ice
Class II - ANS-Clothing, individual equipment, tentage, organizationl tool sets and kits, hand
tools, and administrative and housekeeping supplies and equipment
Class III - ANS-Petroleum, oils, and lubricants
Class IV - ANS-Construction materials
Class IX - ANS-Repair parts and components for equipment maintenance
Class V - ANS-Ammunition
Class VI - ANS-Personal demand items
Class VII - ANS-Major end items such as launchers, tanks, mobile machine shops, and
vehicles.
Class VIII - ANS-Medical
Class X - ANS-Nonstandard items to support non-mil programs (agriculture and economic
development)
1805: Ulm-Austerlitz Campaign - ANS-With perceived threats from N. Italy and Eastern
France, Napoleon seized the initiative by striking Austrian forces in S. Germany before
Russians could get there.
Battle of Austerlitz - decisive victory through strategic reserve (Gave enemy the
highland...made them attack the weak (old way) and came around to defeat (decisive
action)); struck the enemy with deep, rapid, slashing maneuvers; utilized combined arms
Surprise - never gave the Prussian the ability to re-group
80 Years War (Dutch Model - 1568 to 1648) - ANS-- Tactical mix of musket & pike and new
control (new weapons & tactics) --> Fire by Row
- New style of leadership and more training
- Three principles from Lipisius - Doctrines of obedience, loyalty and service to state
- Organist reformers focused on discipline (1) achieved through professional officers, drill
and training; (2) Enabled commanders to plan and carry out sustained operations (vs.
mercenary); (3) idea that War is strategic, tactical, administrative, political and social
Acceptability - ANS-are the effects as well as the methods/resources used justified; do the
benefits outweigh the potential consequences/cost
Adaptive Organization - ANS-Reactive to changes and challenges, adjusts its processes and
performance to current conditions
Adjustment decision - ANS-A decision that modifies the operation to respond to
unanticipated opportunities and threats; often require implementing unanticipated operations
and resynchronizing the warfighting
Administrative Control (ADCON) - ANS-Administering and supporting Title 10 responsibilities
that include the authority necessary to fulfill military departments statutory requirements to
support CCDRs (organize, train, equip, mobilize); NOT a command relationship
Affiliative Leadership - ANS-Creates harmony and builds emotional bonds
Alliance - ANS-A relationship that results from a formal agreement between two or more
nations for broad, long-term objectives that further the common interests of the members.
Anticipation - ANS-Remaining alert for the unexpected and for opportunities to exploit the
situation; understand planned decision points and where/when to execute branch or sequel
Area Defense - ANS-Concentrates on denying enemy forces access to designated terrain for
a specific time rather than destroying them outright
Area of Influence - ANS-A geographical area wherein a commander is directly capable of
influencing operations by maneuver or fire support systems normally under the commander's
command or control.
Area of Interest (AOI) - ANS-That area of concern to the commander, including the area of
influence, areas adjacent thereto, and extending into enemy territory
Area of Operation (AO) - ANS-An operational area defined by a commander for land and
maritime forces that should be large enough to accomplish their missions and protect their
forces.
Area Reconnaissance - ANS-Focuses on obtaining detailed information about the terrain or
enemy activity within a prescribed area (very focused)
Army Command (ACOM) - ANS-Performs title 10 functions
,ACOMs = FORSCOM, TRADOC, AMC, AFC
Army Design Methodology (ADM) - ANS-1. Frame the OE (current state and desired
endstate)
2. Frame the problem
3. Develop an operational approach
4. Develop a Plan / Document Results
5. Reframe as required
Army Organizational Life Cycle Model (AOLCM) - ANS-How the Army manages to interrelate
processes to integrate, maintain, employ capabilities developed
1 - Force Management
2 - Acquistion
3 - Training
4 - Distribution
5 - Deployment
6 - Sustainment
7 - Development
8 - Seperation
Army Program Elements (APE) - ANS-Used to track resources from each element across
POM years; more than 5K in Army over 12 areas
Army Resource Priority List (ARPL) - ANS-Macro view of Army's requirements determination
process that allows for the categorization of validated requirements into four categories;
identified by GCC and approved by Army G-3/5/7.
Four categories:
Expeditionary Capability
Mission Critical Capability
Mission Essential Capability
Mission Enhancing Capability
Army Service Component Command (ASCC) - ANS-Senior Army Command assigned to a
given CCDR (Theater Army); provides Title 10 support to the CCDR
Army Title 10 Functions - ANS-MOSTDEMARS(Maintainting, Organizing, Supplying,
Training, Demobilizing, Equipping, Mobilizing, Administering, Recruiting, Servicing) plus the
construction, outfitting, and repair of military equipment
Army's overarching Title 10 role - ANS-Department of the Army's role is to provide
capabilities associated within the land domain to Combatant Commanders
Arranging Operations - ANS-The best arrangement of joint force and component operations
to conduct the assigned tasks and joint force mission
Artifacts - ANS-Visible and feelable structures / processes or observed behavior
Based on a Commander's visualization of the problem, what does he provide to his staff? -
ANS-Planning Guidance
Basic Underlying assumptions - ANS-Unconscious, taken-for-granted beliefs and values
Basis of Issue Plan (BOIP) - ANS-A requirements document that states the planned
placement of new equipment and associated items/personnel based on provided capability
development documents
Big 5 - ANS-Abrams Tank
Bradley
Apache
Blackhawk
Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS)
, Big 6 priorities of Army Futures Command - ANS-1 - Long-range precision fires (LRPF)
2 - Next-gen combat vehicles
3 - Future vertical lift (FVL)
4 - Network Comms
5 - Integrated AMD
6 - Soldier Lethality
Bildung - ANS-Defined by Wilhelm von Humboldt during Prussian reform in the 1800s, it is
the systematic professional study and cultivation of decision makers; it is the idea that
education (not just training) is a lifelong process of human development.
- Prussians embraced this through: Recruitment; Officer Selection; Operational and Tactical
Techniques; High Command...created Staff officers to help with planning and OPCON;
fostered collective wisdom
Branch Plan - ANS-Contingency options built into the base plan used for changing the
mission, orientation or direction of movement of a force (anticipated situation that required
changes to base plan)
Brigade Support Battalion (BSB) - ANS-Primary sustainment org designed to provide the
BCT logistics and heath service support to achieve freedom of action, prolong endurance
and win across ROMO
Budget Estimate Submission (BES) - ANS-first year of the POM
Campaign - ANS-A series of related major operations aimed at achieving strategic and
operational objectives within a given time and space.
Campaign Plan - ANS-A document approved by the unified combatant commander (CDDR)
and serves as an enduring plan for day-to-day operations in the area of responsibility (AOR).
CCDR Campaign Plan - ANS-Signed by individual CCDR; focuses on enduring operations in
their AOR/Day to Day operations; includes military engagement, security cooperation,
deterrence, and other shaping operations
CCDR role in Jus ad Bellum - ANS-advisor to SECDEF/civil authority; Congress makes the
decision
CCDR role in Jus in Bello - ANS-develop policies (no-strike lists), accountability (CCIRs),
training, readiness, discipline
Center of Gravity (COG) - ANS-A source of power that provides moral or physical strength,
freedom of action, or will to act
Characteristics of Offensive Operations - ANS-(SCAT) Surprise, Concentration, Audacity,
Tempo
Class I - ANS-Rations, issue of health, morale, and welfare items such as water and ice
Class II - ANS-Clothing, individual equipment, tentage, organizationl tool sets and kits, hand
tools, and administrative and housekeeping supplies and equipment
Class III - ANS-Petroleum, oils, and lubricants
Class IV - ANS-Construction materials
Class IX - ANS-Repair parts and components for equipment maintenance
Class V - ANS-Ammunition
Class VI - ANS-Personal demand items
Class VII - ANS-Major end items such as launchers, tanks, mobile machine shops, and
vehicles.
Class VIII - ANS-Medical
Class X - ANS-Nonstandard items to support non-mil programs (agriculture and economic
development)
