C 201
What is operational art and its link between strategic objectives and tactical actions
It incorporates the principle that operational art is the connection between strategic objectives and tactical actions, and provides a common construct for organizing military operations.
What can a red team help do?
A red team, an independent group that challenges an organization to improve its effectiveness, can aid a commander and the staff to think critically and creatively; see things from varying perspectives; challenge their thinking; avoid false mind-sets, biases, or group thinking; and avoid the use of inaccurate analogies to frame the problem.
What is ASCOPE?
Areas Structures Capabilities Organizations People Events
How does Operational art aid the commander?
Operational art aids the commander in identifying the point of diminishing returns in collection and analysis.
What does operational art and design enable?
Operational design and operational art enable understanding
What is PMESII?
Political Military Economic Social Infrastructure Information
What is meant by Proportionality?
Proportionality is a common sense requirement that the damage done in the war should be worth it.
What is the Joint comprehensive analytical tool to describe all aspects of the OE relevant to the operation or campaign?
JIPOE
What is Just Cause?
Just Cause asks for a legitimate and morally weighty reason to go to war.
What is the Just War Theory?
Just war is an attempt to balance two competing moral principles. It attempts to maintain the Christian concern with nonviolence and to honor the principle that taking human life is a grave moral evil. But it attempts to balance that concern with the recognition that, the world being what it is, important moral principles and protection of innocent human life require the willingness to use force and violence.
What constitutes Legitimate Authority?
Legitimate authority restricts the number of agents who may authorize use of force.
What are the three levels of warfare?
Strategic, operational and tactical. The strategic, operational, or tactical purpose of employment depends on the nature of the objective, mission, or task.
What does the Tactical level deal with?
The Tactical level deals with Battles, Engagements and Small-Unit and Crew actions
What is Operational art
The cognitive approach by commanders and staffs—supported by their skill, knowledge, experience, creativity, and judgment—to develop strategies, campaigns, and operations to organize and employ military forces by integrating ends, ways, means, and risks
Who is the central figure in operational design?
The commander is the central figure in operational design due to knowledge and experience, and because the commander's judgment and decisions are required to guide the staff through the process.
What is Operational Design
The conception and construction of the framework that underpins a campaign or operation and its subsequent execution
What is the Operational design framework built on?
The framework is built upon an iterative process that creates a shared understanding of the Operational Environment; identifies and frames problems within that Operational Environment; and develops approaches, through the application of operational art, to resolving those problems, consistent with strategic guidance and/or policy.
What is the Just War Criteria?
The framework of principles, commonly called "Just War Criteria," provide an organized schema for determining whether a particular conflict is morally justified.
What is Just Intent?
The just intent requirement serves to keep the war aims limited and within the context of the just cause used to authorize the war.
What is Reasonable Hope of Success?
The last requirement ad bellum is reasonable hope of success. Because use of force inevitably entails loss of human life, civilian and military, it is a morally grave decision to use it. The reasonable hope criterion simply focuses thinking on the practical question: if you're going to do all that damage and cause death, are you likely to get what you want as a result? If you are not, if despite your best efforts it is unlikely that you will succeed in reversing the cause that brings you to war, then you are causing death and destruction to no purpose.
What is Operational approach
The operational approach, a primary product of operational design, allows the commander to continue the Joint Planning Process, translating broad strategic and operational concepts into specific missions and tasks to produce an executable plan.
What does the operational level deal with?
The operational level deals with Campaigns and Major Operations
What is the purpose of operational design and art
The purpose of operational design and operational art is to produce the operational approach allowing the commander to continue JPP, translating broad strategic and operational concepts into specific missions and tasks and produce an executable plan.
What is Public Declaration?
The requirement of a declaration or ultimatum gives a potential adversary formal notice that the issue at hand is judged serious enough to warrant the use of military force and that the nation is prepared to do so unless that issue is successfully resolved peacefully immediately.
What is Last Resort?
The requirement that war be the ultima ratio, the last resort, stems too from a commitment to restrict the use of force to cases of sad necessity.
What does the Strategic level deal with?
The strategic level deals with National Policy and Theater Strategy
Is operational art inherent in all aspects of operational design?
Yes, operational art is inherent in all aspects of operational design