(Last updated: 7/31/2020)

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1) ADP 1-02 Terms and Military Symbols (August 2018)

• Decisive Point (FM 1-02.1 (21 November 2019), 1-29)
• A geographic place, specific key event, critical factor, or function that, when acted upon, allows commanders to gain a marked advantage over an adversary or contribute materially to achieving success.
• Obstacle Effects (Pg. 8-79, Table 8-19)
• Tactical Mission Tasks (Table 9-1 and associated definitions in Chapter 1)
• The specific activity performed by a unit while executing a form of tactical operation or form of maneuver. It may be expressed in terms of either actions by a friendly force or effects on an enemy force. See also mission statement, operation order. (FM 3-90-1)
• SYMBOLS FOR TACTICAL MISSION TASKS (ADP 1-02, 14 August 2018)
• Table 9-1 on pages 9-2 through 9-3 shows the tactical mission tasks that have symbols. Not all tacticalmission tasks have symbols. All of the tactical mission tasks shown in table 9-1 are defined in chapter 1.Some tactical mission task symbols will include unit symbols, and the tactical mission task “delay until aspecified time” will use an amplifier. However, no modifiers are used with tactical mission task symbols.Tactical mission task symbols are used in course of action sketches, synchronization matrices, and maneuversketches. They do not replace any part of the operation order. Tactical mission task symbols are sized toaccommodate the scale of the display or map being used. Where practical, the tactical mission task symbolconnects with the task organization composition symbol centered of the left or right side of the symbol or atthe center of the bottom of the symbol, depending on the orientation of the symbols. Figure 9-1 (on page 9-4)shows examples of tactical mission task symbols connected to task organization composition symbols.

2) ADP 3-0 Operations (31 July 2019)

• Levels of Warfare (para 1-2)
• Operational environments include considerations at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of warfare. At the strategic level, leaders develop an idea or set of ideas for employing the instruments of national power (diplomatic, informational, military, and economic) in a synchronized and integrated fashion to accomplish national objectives. The operational level links the tactical employment of forces to national and military strategic objectives, with the focus being on the design, planning, and conduct of operations using operational art. (See chapter 2 for a discussion of operational art.) The tactical level of warfare involves the employment and ordered arrangement of forces in relation to each other. The levels of warfare help commanders visualize a logical arrangement of forces, allocate resources, and assign tasks based on a strategic purpose, informed by the conditions within their operational environments.
• Multiple Domain Operations (para 1-37)
• The Army is the dominant U.S. fighting force in the land domain. Army forces both depend upon and enable the joint force across multiple domains, including air, land, maritime, space, and cyberspace. This mutual interdependence creates powerful synergies and reflects that all operations are combined arms operations, and all combined arms operations are conducted in multiple domains. The Army depends on the other Services for strategic and operational mobility, joint fires, and other key enabling capabilities. The Army supports other Services, combatant commands, and unified action partners with ground-based indirect fires and ballistic missile defense, defensive cyberspace operations, electronic protection, communications, intelligence, rotary-wing aircraft, logistics, and engineering.
• Principles of Joint Operations (Chapter 2)
1. Objective: Direct every military operation toward a clearly defined, decisive, and achievable goal.
2. Offensive: Seize, retain, and exploit the initiative.
3. Mass: Concentrate the effects of combat power at the most advantageous place and time to produce decisive results.
4. Maneuver: Place the enemy in a position of disadvantage through the flexible application of combat power.
5. Economy of force: Expend minimum-essential combat power on secondary efforts to allocate the maximum possible combat power on primary efforts.
6. Unity of command: Ensure unity of effort under one responsible commander for every objective.
7. Security: Prevent the enemy from acquiring an unexpected advantage.
8. Surprise: Strike at a time or place or in a manner for which the enemy is unprepared.
9. Simplicity: Increase the probability that plans and operations will be executed as intended by preparing clear, uncomplicated plans and concise mission orders.
10. Restraint: Limit collateral damage and prevent the unnecessary use of force.
11. Perseverance: Ensure the commitment necessary to attain the national strategic end state.
12. Legitimacy: Maintain legal and moral authority in the conduct of operations.
• Elements of Combat Power (Chapter 5)
1. Leadership
2. Information
3. Command and Control
4. Movement and Maneuver
5. Intelligence
6. Fires
7. Sustainment
8. Protection
• Warfighting Functions (Chapter 5)
1. Command and Control: the related tasks and a system that enable commanders to synchronize and converge all elements of combat power. (para 5-11)
2. Movement and Maneuver: the related tasks and systems that move and employ forces to achieve a position of relative advantage over the enemy and other threats. (para 5-13)
3. Intelligence: the related tasks and systems that facilitate understanding the enemy, terrain, weather, civil considerations, and other significant aspects of the operational environment. (para 5-15)
4. Fires: the related tasks and systems that create and converge effects in all domains against the adversary or enemy to enable operations across the range of military operations. (para 5-17)
5. Sustainment: the related tasks and systems that provide support and services to ensure freedom of action, extended operational reach, and prolong endurance. (para 5-19)
6. Protection: the related tasks and systems that preserve the force so the commander can apply maximum combat power to accomplish the mission. (para 5-25)