A joint force is one composed of significant elements, assigned or attached, of two or more Military Departments operating under a single joint force commander

True

Joint doctrine recognizes the nine principles of war (objective, offensive, mass, maneuver, economy of force, unity of command, security, surprise, and simplicity). Experience gained in a variety of irregular warfare situations has reinforced the value of three additional principles. Together they comprise the 12 principles of joint operations. Select from the following the three additional principles that comprise the 12 principles.

Perseverance, Restraint, Legitimacy

The military environment and the threats it presents are increasingly ______________ in nature. (JP 3-0, Chapter I, 2a)

Transregional, Multi-domain, and Multi-functional (TMM)

Unified action refers to the synchronization, coordination, and integration of what activities to achieve unity of effort? (JP 3-0, Chapter I, 5a, (1))

Governmental and nongovernmental activities

Match the appropriate level of warfare to the correct descriptor. (JP 3-0, Chapter I, 6b, 6c, 6d)

Strategic = Develops an idea or set of ideas of the ways to employ the instruments of national power
Operational = Links the tactical employment of forces to national strategic objectives
Tactical = The employment, ordered arrangement, and directed actions of forces in relation to each other.

What do mission - type orders focus on? (JP 3-0, Chapter 2, 2b)

purpose

The foundation of operational art encompasses broad vision that helps commanders and their staffs organize their thoughts and _____________ necessary to accomplish the mission and reach the desired military end state in support of national objectives. (JP 3-0, Chapter 2, 3b)

envision the conditions

Without operational art, campaigns and operations could be sets of disconnected events. (JP 3-0, Chapter 2, 3b)

true

The commander's ability to think creatively enhances the ability to employ operational art in order to answer the Ends, Ways, Means, and Risk questions. Match the Ends, Ways, Means, and Risk to the correct question. (JP 3-0, Chapter 2, 3d)

Ends = What are the objectives and desired military end state?
Ways = What sequence of actions is most likely to achieve those objectives and military end state?
Means = What resources are required to accomplish that sequence of actions?
Risk = What is the likely chance of failure or unacceptable results in performing that sequence of actions?

What extends operational art's vision with a creative process to help commanders and planners answer the ends-ways-means-risk questions. (JP 3-0, Chapter 2, 4a).

Operational Design

Joint planning consists of planning activities that help CCDRs and their subordinate commanders transform ____________ into actions that mobilize, deploy, employ, sustain, redeploy, and demobilize forces. (JP 3-0, Chapter 2, 5b)

national objectives

What assessment indicator of warfare answers the question, "Are we accomplishing tasks to standard?" (JP 3-0, Chapter 2, 6h (3))

Measures of performance

What assessment evaluates the results of weapons engagement (of both lethal and nonlethal capabilities), and thus provides data for joint fires and the joint targeting process at all levels. (JP 3-0, Chapter 2, 6h (4))

combat assessment

What is the joint force considering adding as a seventh joint function. (JP 3-0, Chapter 3, 1c)

Information

Through ____________, the joint force commander (JFC) can concentrate forces at decisive points to achieve surprise, psychological effects, and physical momentum. (JP 3-0, Chapter 3, 5c)

Maneuver

Maneuver is a means by which component commanders employ their forces in combination with fires to achieve positional advantage in respect to the enemy. At what level of war does this maneuver effort take place? (JP 3-0, 5c (3) (c))

Tactical

Sustainment is the provision of ______________ and _____________ to maintain operations through mission accomplishment and redeployment of the force. (JP 3-0, Chapter 3, 7a)

logistics and personnel services

What type of command is established to conduct broad continuing missions requiring execution by significant forces of two or more Military Departments to achieve national objectives or other criteria? (JP 3-0, Chapter 4, 3b, (1))

Unified command

What type of command is normally composed of forces from one Military Department, but may include units and staff representatives from other Military Departments? (JP 3-0, Chapter 4, 3b (1))

Specified commands

Normally, sustainment does not remain a Service component responsibility. (JP 3-0, Chapter 4, 3c (1))

False

A theater of war normally encompass geographic combatant commander's (GCC's) entire area of responsibility (AOR), but may cross the boundaries of two or more AORs. (JP 3-0, Chapter 4, 5b (2))

False

A theater of operations in an operational area defined by the ___________ for the conduct of support of specific military operations. (JP 3-0, Chapter 4, 5b (3))

Geographic Combatant Commander (GCC)

A ____________ is an area of land, sea, and airspace, defined by a GCC or subordinate unified commander, in which a JFC (normally a CJTF) conducts military operations to accomplish a specific mission. (JP 3-0, Chapter 4, c (1))

Joint Operational Area (JOA)

The general strategic objective of ______________ is to protect or further US interests at home and abroad by enabling support from Partner Nations (PNs), enhancing their capacity or capability for security and stability, and maintaining or establishing operational access. (JP 3-0, Chapter 5, 3b, (1))

military engagement, security cooperation and deterrence

A ____________ is series of tactical actions (battles, engagements, strikes) conducted by combat forces of a single or several Services, coordinated in time and place, to achieve strategic or operational objectives in an operational area. (JP 3-0, Chapter 5, 3b (3))

major operation or campaign

___________ can span from an independent, small-scale, noncombat operation, such as support of civil authorities, up to a supporting component of extended major noncombat and/or combat operations. (JP 3-0, Chapter 5, 3b, (2))

Crisis response and limited contingency operations

What military activities in the joint combat operation model help set conditions for successful theater operations. These activities include long-term persistent and preventative military engagement, security cooperation, and deterrence actions to assure friends, build partner capacity and capability, and promote regional stability? (JP 3-0, Chapter 5, 5b (1) (a))

shaping activities

What military activity in the joint combat operation model involves both defensive and offensive operations at the earliest possible time, forcing the enemy to culminate offensively and setting the conditions for decisive operations? (JP 3-0, Chapter 5, 5b (3))

Seize Initiative

What military activity in the joint combat operation model help reestablish a safe and secure environment an provide essential government services, emergency infrastructure reconstruction, and humanitarian relief? (JP 3-0, Chapter 5, 5b, (5))

Stabilize

Phases must be conducted sequentially, but some activities from a phase may begin in a previous phase and continue into subsequent phases. (JP 3-0, Chapter 5, 6b)

false

______________ is the routine contact and interaction between individuals or elements of the Armed Forces of the United States and those of another nation's armed forces, or foreign and domestic civilian authorities or agencies, to build trust and confidence, share information, coordinate mutual activities, and maintain influence. (JP 3-0, Chapter 6, 1d)

military engagement

____________ prevents adversary action through the presentation of a credible threat of unacceptable counteraction and belief that the cost of the action outweighs the perceived benefits. (JP 3-0, Chapter 6, 1f)

deterrence