…The targeting process ensures the collective and coordinated use of Army indirect and joint fires to gain and maintain fire superiority throughout defensive operations. In the defense, commanders use fires to neutralize, suppress, or destroy enemy…

…The targeting process ensures the collective and coordinated use of Army indirect fires, air and missile defense, and joint fires to gain and maintain fire superiority. Commanders use a variety of methods and assets to achieve…

… Counter enemy target acquisition efforts by effectively using counter-reconnaissance and security operations, military deception, cover, and concealment.  Target enemy command and control nodes to disrupt them.  Exploit initial penetrations of enemy defensive…

…The Army views the intelligence process as a model that describes how the intelligence warfighting function facilitates situational understanding and supports decision making. Commanders and staffs must understand the intelligence process. To be effective, collected data…

…This mission is normally accomplished within a joint theater-wide structure and requires integration and close coordination between Army air defense artillery forces and other counterair forces. 4-83. Freedom of movement is essential to a…

…Understanding the simultaneity of decisive action is a key component of understanding the use of the forms of maneuver and defense. In operations where the preponderance of activities is offensive, there are units using a form…

…Tacticians use experience and creativity to outthink their opposing enemy commanders. The mission variables have many combinations that make each new tactical situation unique. Because enemy forces change and adapt to friendly moves during operations, there…

…use. Commanders may allocate mobility resources to maintain main supply routes to support units and supplies moving forward and to evacuate personnel and equipment to the rear. Commanders coordinate movements with affected organic and external Army…

… A tactical road march is a rapid movement used to relocate units within an area of operations to prepare for combat operations. The primary use of a tactical road march is rapid movement. However, the…

…Enemies use several methods to deny friendly use of the cyberspace domain and the electromagnetic spectrum. These methods include cyberspace attack (digital attack against Army, joint, and other networks), electronic attack (jamming of portions of the…

…A section is a tactical unit of the Army and Marine Corps smaller than a platoon and larger than a squad. A section may consist of the crews of two or more Army systems, such as…

…Tactical forces at all echelons use combinations of the four defeat mechanisms: destroy, dislocate, disintegrate, and isolate. There are also stability mechanisms used in the conduct of stability. (See ADP 3-0 for a discussion of…

…Unfortunately for the Americans, the port facilities were destroyed which denied their early use by Allied forces. (Length of battle: 6 - 13 days) (Casualties: estimated in the thousands) f. Berlin (1945). The long, bloody Soviet offensive…

…The purpose of the defense is to create conditions for the offense that allows Army forces to regain the initiative. Other reasons for conducting the defense include—  Retaining decisive terrain or denying a vital area…

…concept of operations (Army) A statement that directs the manner in which subordinate units cooperate to accomplish the mission and establishes the sequence of actions the force will use to achieve the end state. (ADP 5…

…relative to the enemy. *tactical road march A rapid movement used to relocate units within an area of operations to prepare for combat operations. *tactics (Army) The employment, ordered arrangement, and directed actions of forces in…

…field army An echelon of command that employs multiple corps, divisions, multi-functional brigades, and functional brigades to achieve objectives on land. *final coordination line A phase line close to the enemy position used to coordinate…

…A combined arms team is a team that uses combined arms—the synchronized and simultaneous application of arms to achieve an effect greater than if each element was used separately or sequentially (ADP 3-0). 1…

…92-4, April 92, Center for Army Lessons Learned, U.S. Army Combined Arms Command, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.) Other considerations include: a. Graphic control measures should be clearly defined and obvious. Examples include distinctive buildings, large…

…Armored and Stryker units can employ any of the forms of maneuver that are situationally appropriate, although the use of the envelopment tends to provide the greatest payoff. Armored units are particularly effective when conducting mobile…