SEJPME II - Module 6
Which of the following statements accurately reflects crisis and limited contingency operations? (Select all that apply.) Must achieve a very specific or operational objective Are used to restore stability in a nation where internal conflict threatens regional stability Are conducted to achieve tactical objectives Are part of the JFC's OPLAN
**NOT** 1,3,4
_____ is participation by civilian and military agencies of a government in any of the action programs taken by another government or other designated organization to free and protect its society from subversion, lawlessness, insurgency, terrorism, and other threats to its security.
**NOT** Civil support
_____ generally are governed by various directives and agreements and do not require a joint operation plan (OPLAN) or operation order (OPORD) for execution.
**NOT** Commitment of forces Continuity of Operations
_____ provides a framework within which combatant commands engage regional partners in cooperative military activities and development. Foreign internal defense Counterinsurgency Diplomacy Security cooperation
**NOT** Diplomacy
_____ is DoD support to U.S. Government actions that plan for, prepare for, respond to, and recover from the effects of domestic and foreign chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear incidents. Recovery operations Homeland defense Civil support Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear consequence management
**NOT** Homeland defense
The _____ is responsible for conducting military operations to assist in the implementation of emergency action plans.
**NOT** Secretary of Defense Geographic Combatant Commander
_____ is the routine contact and interaction between individuals or elements of the U.S. Armed Forces and other nations' armed forces, or foreign and domestic civilian authorities or agencies, to build trust and confidence, share information, coordinate mutual activities, and maintain influence. Security cooperation Interdiction Engagement Intervention
**NOT** Security Cooperation
Force protection is a required activity throughout each joint operation or campaign phase. This type of operation is a(n) _____ operation. offensive stability defensive planning
**NOT** Stability
Counterinsurgency is an operation that encompasses comprehensive civilian and military efforts taken for what purpose? To detect, monitor, and counter the production, trafficking, and use of illegal drugs Plan for, prepare for, respond to, and recover from the effects of domestic and foreign chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear incidents The protection of U.S. sovereignty, territory, domestic population, and critical defense infrastructure against external threats and aggression or other threats as directed by the President Efforts taken to defeat an insurgency and to address any core grievances
**NOT** The protection of U.S. sovereignty, territory, domestic population, and critical defense infrastructure against external threats and aggression or other threats as directed by the President
By arranging operations and activities into phases, the JFC can do what? Mitigate risk in the more dangerous or difficult portions of an operation. Better integrate and synchronize subordinate operations in time, space, and purpose. Visualize, design, and plan the entire operation or campaign and define requirements in terms of forces, resources, time, space, and purpose. Achieve military objectives that cannot be attained all at once by arranging smaller, related operations in a logical sequence.
**NOT** Visualize, design, and plan the entire operation or campaign and define requirements in terms of forces, resources, time, space, and purpose.
When are Campaigns most often applied? When conducting civil support and homeland defense operations as directed by the President and Secretary of Defense. When conducting large-scale combat operations. When supporting a government in the military, paramilitary, political, economic, psychological, and civic actions. When conducting limited contingency operations.
**NOT** When supporting a government in the military, paramilitary, political, economic, psychological, and civic actions.
Emergency preparedness consists of _____ to reduce the loss of life and property and to protect a nation's institutions from all types of hazards. commitment of forces advance measures continuity of operations engagement activities
**NOT** continuity of operations
Operation RESTORE HOPE in Somalia was a crisis response operation which required _____ to protect U.S. forces while accomplishing the mission. security cooperation major campaigns combat operations deterrence activities
**NOT** deterrence activities
Phasing helps the JFC _____ large operations by integrating and synchronizing subordinate operations. visualize organize mitigate synchronize
**NOT** visualize
By arranging operations and activities into phases, the JFC can do what?
**NOT** visualize, design, and plan the entire operation or campaign and define requirements in terms of forces, resources, time, space, and purpose
Which of the following best describes how SOF contributions provide operational leverage?
**NOT** By conducting limited contingency operations, major operations or campaigns, numerous routine missions, and continuing operations or tasks
Which of the following best describes the JFC combination of linear operations in contiguous area of operation (AO)?
**NOT** When conducting nonlinear operations in contiguous AOs, the JFC's entire assigned operational area is divided into subordinate AOs
To create balance between the three main types of operations, planning for stability operations should begin when?
**NOT** When supporting a government in the military, paramilitary, political, economic, psychological, and civic actions
When required to engage in several types of joint operations simultaneously, across a range of military operations, what must commanders combine and sequence?
**NOT** major operations and campaigns as well as security cooperation activities
Force protection is a required activity throughout each joint operation or campaign phase. This type of operation is a(n) _____ operation.
**NOT** offensive stability
Which of the following best describes Joint Operations? A general term used to describe military actions conducted by joint forces or by service forces employed under command relationships. Offensive, defensive, and stability operations and activities. Keep the day-to-day tensions between nations or groups below the threshold of armed conflict while maintaining U.S. global influence. Military engagement, security cooperation, and deterrence activities.
A general term used to describe military actions conducted by joint forces or by service forces employed under command relationships.
_____ is/are defensive measures used to reduce the vulnerability of individuals and property to terrorist acts, to include limited response and containment by local military forces and civilians.
Antiterrorism
Which of the following best describes how SOF contributions provide operational leverage? By gathering critical information, undermining a potential adversary's will or capacity to wage war, and enhancing the capabilities of conventional U.S. or multinational forces By providing a framework within which combatant commands engage regional partners in cooperative military activities and development By building trust and confidence, sharing information, coordinating mutual activities, and maintaining influence By conducting limited contingency operations, major operations or campaigns, numerous routine missions, and continuing operations or tasks
By gathering critical information, undermining a potential adversary's will or capacity to wage war, and enhancing the capabilities of conventional U.S. or multinational forces
_____ ensure(s) DoD processes, procedures, and resources are in place to support the President and Secretary of Defense in a national security emergency.
Continuity of operations
_____ ensure(s) DoD processes, procedures, and resources are in place to support the President and Secretary of Defense in a national security emergency. Commitment of forces Continuity of operations Engagement activities Advance measures
Continuity of operations
_____ is/are actions taken directly against terrorist networks and indirectly to influence and render global and regional environments inhospitable to terrorist networks. Counterterrorism Antiterrorism Counterinsurgency Stability operations
Counterterrorism
____ is generally limited in scope and duration because it is intended to supplement or complement efforts of civil authorities or agencies with the primary responsibility for providing assistance. Foreign internal defense Deterrence Foreign humanitarian assistance Civil defense
Foreign humanitarian assistance
The _____ is responsible for conducting military operations to assist in the implementation of emergency action plans. Secretary of State Geographic Combatant Commander Secretary of Defense U.S. Ambassador, or Chief of the Diplomatic Mission
Geographic Combatant Commander
When can a noncombat operation, such as foreign humanitarian assistance, turn into a major operation?
If the combination of size, scope, and duration requires the commander to phase the operation as a set of tasks, activities, and missions over time.
During stability operations, what is critical to avoid doing?
Inadvertently legitimizing an individual or organization in a country where no government exists.
Which of the following best describes a Transition? Represents the military end state, signaling the end of the joint operation. Marks a change of focus between phases or between the ongoing operations and execution of a branch or sequel. Helps maintain a safe and secure environment and provide essential government services, emergency infrastructure reconstruction, and humanitarian relief. Breaking the enemy's will to resist, or in noncombat situations, to control the operational environment.
Marks a change of focus between phases or between the ongoing operations and execution of a branch or sequel.
Deterrence prevents an adversarial action by doing what? Providing a framework within which combatant commands engage regional partners in cooperative military activities and development. Building trust and confidence, sharing information, coordinating mutual activities, and maintaining influence. Conducting limited contingency operations, major operations or campaigns, numerous routine missions, and continuing operations or tasks. Presenting a credible threat of counteraction. This activity can occur during both peace and war.
Presenting a credible threat of counteraction. This activity can occur during both peace and war.
To achieve military strategic objectives quickly and at least cost, JFCs normally do what? Rapidly transition between offensive and defensive operations and vice versa. Set the conditions for interaction with partner, competitor, or adversary leaders, military forces, or relevant populations. Consider all instruments of national power and integrate efforts to attain national strategic objectives. Seek the earliest opportunity to conduct decisive offensive operations.
Rapidly transition between offensive and defensive operations and vice versa.
_____ provides a framework within which combatant commands engage regional partners in cooperative military activities and development.
Security cooperation
Which statement best describes Stability Operations? Can vary widely depending on the context of the operation and the objective. Can be used across the range of a series of major military operations aimed at achieving strategic and operational objectives within a given time and space. May be appropriate when the contemplated military operations exceed the scope of a single major operation. Seek to maintain or re-establish a safe and secure environment and provide essential governmental services, emergency infrastructure reconstruction, or humanitarian relief.
Seek to maintain or re-establish a safe and secure environment and provide essential governmental services, emergency infrastructure reconstruction, or humanitarian relief.
Offensive actions that are focused against decisive points, while allocating the minimum essential combat power to defensive operations, is an action in the _____ phase.
Seize **NOT** deter
Establishing and maintaining access to operational areas where joint forces are likely to operate is an action in the _____ phase.
Shape
Establishing and maintaining access to operational areas where joint forces are likely to operate is an action in the _____ phase. dominate shape seize deter
Shape
Which statement best describes what campaigns are?
The most extensive joint operations in terms of time and other resources
Foreign Humanitarian Assistance are DoD activities, normally in support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) or the Department of State (DOS), conducted outside the U.S., its territories and possessions for what purpose?
To relieve or reduce human suffering, disease, hunger, or privation.
Foreign Humanitarian Assistance are DoD activities, normally in support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) or the Department of State (DOS), conducted outside the U.S., its territories and possessions for what purpose? To search for, locate, identify, recover, and return isolated personnel, human remains, sensitive equipment, or items critical to national security. To evacuate non-combatants and civilians from foreign countries to safe havens or to the U.S. when their lives are endangered by war, civil unrest, or natural disaster. Support to U.S. civil authorities for domestic emergencies and for designated law enforcement and other activities. To relieve or reduce human suffering, disease, hunger, or privation.
To relieve or reduce human suffering, disease, hunger, or privation.
During the enable civil authority phase of operations, the JFC may be required to do what?
Transfer responsibility of operations to another authority as the termination criteria
Which of the following best describes what U.S forces may do if the crisis is caused by an internal conflict that threatens regional stability? Deter aggression and signal U.S. commitment. U.S. forces may intervene to restore or guarantee stability. Deny an adversary time to set conditions in their favor or achieve destabilizing objectives. Conduct civil support and homeland defense operations as directed by the President and Secretary of Defense.
U.S. forces may intervene to restore or guarantee stability.
Which of the following best describes the JFC combination of linear operations in contiguous area of operation (AO)? When conducting sustained offensive and defensive operations against powerful, echeloned, and symmetrically organized forces A combination of JFCs' operational area with subordinate component commanders conducting linear operations in noncontiguous AOs When performing nonlinear operations in noncontiguous AOs, the JFC and subordinate JFCs conduct nonlinear operations When conducting nonlinear operations in contiguous AOs, the JFC's entire assigned operational area is divided into subordinate AOs
When conducting sustained offensive and defensive operations against powerful, echeloned, and symmetrically organized forces
Military operations vary in scope, purpose and _____ across a range that spans from military engagement to major operations and campaigns.
conflict intensity
The scope of a(n) _____ or limited contingency operation is by its nature different in scope than a full-scale operation.
crisis response
It is imperative to have a clear national strategic end state for all types of contingencies, regardless of operation _____.
duration
If the crisis revolves around _____ to a regional partner, combat commanders employ joint forces to deter aggression and signal U.S. commitment.
external threats
The "Seize the Initiative" phase of joint operations seeks decision advantage by using all available elements of combat power to: (Select all that apply.)
generate in the enemy a sense of inevitable failure and defeat seize and maintain the initiative deny the enemy the opportunity to achieve its objectives
The "Seize the Initiative" phase of joint operations seeks decision advantage by using all available elements of combat power to: (Select all that apply.) generate in the enemy a sense of inevitable failure and defeat seize and maintain the initiative deny the enemy the opportunity to achieve its objectives denounce enemy military by using propaganda to turn public against their military leadership
generate in the enemy a sense of inevitable failure and defeat seize and maintain the initiative deny the enemy the opportunity to achieve its objectives
A(n) _____ is a series of tactical actions, such as battles, engagements, and strikes. major operation campaign dominance interdiction
major operation
