MP BOLC TACOPS Exam Questions and Answers Solved Correctly Latest Update 2025
Envelopment - Answers Avoids the enemy's defenses by seizing objectives to the enemy rear to destroy
the enemy in his current positions. Envelopments focus
on
- seizing terrain,
- destroying specific
forces, and
- interdicting enemy
withdrawal routes.
Turning Moment - Answers Similar to the Envelopment
Attempts to avoid the enemy's principal defenses to seize objectives to the enemy's rear causing the
enemy to move out of his current positions or divert forces to meet the threat.
Infiltration - Answers - A covert movement of the attacking force through enemy lines to occupy a
position of advantage in the enemy rear while exposing only small elements to enemy defensive fires.
- Can rarely defeat the enemy's defense by itself; used to attack lightly or stronger defended positions
from the flank and rear to secure key terrain to support the decisive operation, or disrupt the enemy's
sustaining operations.
Penetration - Answers - A form of maneuver in which the attacking force seeks to rupture enemy
defenses on a narrow front to disrupt the defensive system.
- Commanders direct
penetration when the
enemy flanks are not
assailable or time does
not permit another form
of maneuver.
- Mass effects from all
available fires at the
point of penetration.
,Frontal Attack - Answers - A form of maneuver where the attacking force seeks to destroy a weaker
enemy force or fix a larger enemy force in place over a broad front.
- Used to rapidly overrun a weaker enemy force; used when an attacker
possesses overwhelming
combat power and the
enemy is at a clear
disadvantage.
- Frequently the most
costly form of maneuver,
it exposes the majority
of attackers to concen-
trated fires.
Fundamentals of Offense - Answers The decisive form of war -
The commander's ultimate means of imposing his will upon the enemy. While strategic, operational, or
tactical considerations may require defending, defeating an enemy force at any level will sooner or later
require shifting to the offensive.
Characteristics of the Offense - Answers Surprise
Tempo
Concentration
Audacity
Fundamentals of Defense - Answers - Characterized by preparation, disruption, concentration, and
flexibility.
- Platoons do this as part of a larger force to disrupt, disorganize, delay, or defeat an attacking enemy, or
deny an area to the enemy.
- The challenge is to retain the initiative or to keep the enemy reacting and unable to execute his own
plan.
Characteristics of Defense - Answers - Preparation
- Security
, - Disruption
- Massing effects
- Flexibility
Types of defense - Answers - Area
- Mobile
- Retrogrades
Area Defense - Answers The focus is on the retention of terrain by absorbing the enemy into an
interlocked series of positions from which he can be destroyed.
Mobile Defense - Answers Focused on the destruction of the enemy by permitting them to advance into
a position which exposes them to counterattack and envelopment by a mobile reserve.
Retrogrades - Answers A type of operation that involves organized movement away from the enemy,
moving friendly forces away from the enemy to gain time, preserve forces, place the enemy in
unfavorable positions, or avoid combat under undesirable conditions.
Movement Types - Answers - Traveling
- Traveling Overwatch
- Bounding Overwatch
Traveling - Answers When using the traveling movement technique all unit elements move
simultaneously. Traveling is used when speed is necessary and enemy contact is not likely.
Traveling Overwatch - Answers The lead element moves simultaneously. Trailing elements move at
varying speeds, sometimes pausing to overwatch movement of the lead element. Used when enemy
contact is possible but not expected. Caution is justified but speed is desirable. The idea is put enough
distance between the lead unit and the trail unit (s) so that if the lead unit comes into contact the trail
unit (s) will be out of contact with the ability to maneuver on the enemy.
Bounding Overwatch - Answers One squad bounding, one squad overwatching, one squad awaiting
orders.
Using successive or alternate bounds, overwatching elements cover bounding elements from covered,
concealed positions with good observation of, and fields of fire against, possible enemy positions.
Bounding overwatch is used when contact is expected. One unit covers - overwatches - the movement
of the other unit (s). This technique is nothing more than a variation of fire and movement with the
variance being the overwatching element is ready to but not firing. The key to this technique is the
Envelopment - Answers Avoids the enemy's defenses by seizing objectives to the enemy rear to destroy
the enemy in his current positions. Envelopments focus
on
- seizing terrain,
- destroying specific
forces, and
- interdicting enemy
withdrawal routes.
Turning Moment - Answers Similar to the Envelopment
Attempts to avoid the enemy's principal defenses to seize objectives to the enemy's rear causing the
enemy to move out of his current positions or divert forces to meet the threat.
Infiltration - Answers - A covert movement of the attacking force through enemy lines to occupy a
position of advantage in the enemy rear while exposing only small elements to enemy defensive fires.
- Can rarely defeat the enemy's defense by itself; used to attack lightly or stronger defended positions
from the flank and rear to secure key terrain to support the decisive operation, or disrupt the enemy's
sustaining operations.
Penetration - Answers - A form of maneuver in which the attacking force seeks to rupture enemy
defenses on a narrow front to disrupt the defensive system.
- Commanders direct
penetration when the
enemy flanks are not
assailable or time does
not permit another form
of maneuver.
- Mass effects from all
available fires at the
point of penetration.
,Frontal Attack - Answers - A form of maneuver where the attacking force seeks to destroy a weaker
enemy force or fix a larger enemy force in place over a broad front.
- Used to rapidly overrun a weaker enemy force; used when an attacker
possesses overwhelming
combat power and the
enemy is at a clear
disadvantage.
- Frequently the most
costly form of maneuver,
it exposes the majority
of attackers to concen-
trated fires.
Fundamentals of Offense - Answers The decisive form of war -
The commander's ultimate means of imposing his will upon the enemy. While strategic, operational, or
tactical considerations may require defending, defeating an enemy force at any level will sooner or later
require shifting to the offensive.
Characteristics of the Offense - Answers Surprise
Tempo
Concentration
Audacity
Fundamentals of Defense - Answers - Characterized by preparation, disruption, concentration, and
flexibility.
- Platoons do this as part of a larger force to disrupt, disorganize, delay, or defeat an attacking enemy, or
deny an area to the enemy.
- The challenge is to retain the initiative or to keep the enemy reacting and unable to execute his own
plan.
Characteristics of Defense - Answers - Preparation
- Security
, - Disruption
- Massing effects
- Flexibility
Types of defense - Answers - Area
- Mobile
- Retrogrades
Area Defense - Answers The focus is on the retention of terrain by absorbing the enemy into an
interlocked series of positions from which he can be destroyed.
Mobile Defense - Answers Focused on the destruction of the enemy by permitting them to advance into
a position which exposes them to counterattack and envelopment by a mobile reserve.
Retrogrades - Answers A type of operation that involves organized movement away from the enemy,
moving friendly forces away from the enemy to gain time, preserve forces, place the enemy in
unfavorable positions, or avoid combat under undesirable conditions.
Movement Types - Answers - Traveling
- Traveling Overwatch
- Bounding Overwatch
Traveling - Answers When using the traveling movement technique all unit elements move
simultaneously. Traveling is used when speed is necessary and enemy contact is not likely.
Traveling Overwatch - Answers The lead element moves simultaneously. Trailing elements move at
varying speeds, sometimes pausing to overwatch movement of the lead element. Used when enemy
contact is possible but not expected. Caution is justified but speed is desirable. The idea is put enough
distance between the lead unit and the trail unit (s) so that if the lead unit comes into contact the trail
unit (s) will be out of contact with the ability to maneuver on the enemy.
Bounding Overwatch - Answers One squad bounding, one squad overwatching, one squad awaiting
orders.
Using successive or alternate bounds, overwatching elements cover bounding elements from covered,
concealed positions with good observation of, and fields of fire against, possible enemy positions.
Bounding overwatch is used when contact is expected. One unit covers - overwatches - the movement
of the other unit (s). This technique is nothing more than a variation of fire and movement with the
variance being the overwatching element is ready to but not firing. The key to this technique is the
