Transcript IOC Orders Process - Christopher Breen

METT-T
CAPT MULVANEY
MISSION
What is required by the tactical task
given to you?
WRT TERRAIN
• Seize
• Secure
TACTICAL TASKS & PURPOSE
WRT ENEMY
WRT ENEMY
WRT FRIENDLY FORCES
• Clear
• Disrupt
• Attack by Fire
• Screen
• Occupy
• Defeat
• Breach
• Guard
• Retain
• Destroy
• Cover
• Cover
• Recon
• Block
• Control
• Exploit
• Withdraw
• Contain
• Guard
• Retire
• Fix
• Protect
• Follow and support
• Canalize
• Reconnoiter
• Breach
• Delay
• Rupture
• Disengage
• Interdict
• Screen
• Exfiltrate
• Isolate
• Support by fire
• Infiltrate
• Reconnoiter
IOT:
• Allow
• Attrit
• Cause
• Create
• Deceive
• Deny
• Enable
• Influence
• Locate
• Open
• Prevent
• Protect
• Support
• Surprise
• Penetrate
• Support by fire
• Suppress
• Attack by fire
• Neutralize
• Displace
• Feint
• Counter Reconnaissance
• Demonstrate
• Follow and Assume
• Ambush
• Link up
• Bypass
• Follow
TYPES & FORMS OF OPERATIONS
Security Ops
•Screen
•Guard
•Cover
Other Tactical Ops
•Breach
•Passage of Lines
•Relief in Place
•River Crossing
•Retrograde
•Attacks
•Spoiling ATK
•Counter ATK
•Raid
•Feint
•Demonstration
•Search and ATK
Types of Offensive Ops
•Movement to Contact
•Attack
•Exploitation
•Pursuit
Forms of Maneuver
•Penetration
•Frontal ATK
•Flanking ATK
•Envelopment
•Turning Movement
•Infiltration
Types of Def Ops
•Mobile Defense
•Position Defense
•Delay
•Withdrawal
•Retirement
Organ. of the Defense
•Security Area
•Main Battle Area
•Rear Area
Enemy
Composition, Disposition, and Strength:
Unit Description – What does that tell you ?
Taliban versus Chechen foreign fighters ?
- SALUTE format still remains – detail of articulation and
communication is the difference.
What does “Soviet-style small arms” tell that Marine…
Not much, but the delineation between a 7.62 x 39 and a
7.62 x 54 weapon system may tell him a great deal.
Enemy
• Capabilities and Limitiations
Simply penciling out DRAW-D is no longer and an
acceptable action
- Defend – Where and why? Where will he
concentrate his fires? Why and how is he
utilizing the terrain?
- Reinforce – What unit, the size and how; route to the
position, what will they bring to the fight and why?
You are the one charged with this analysis and the descision.
Terrain and Weather
• As assets, capabilities, and situation
becomes more complicated, we need to
look deeper.
- Optics
- Motorized Assets
- What effects on friendly enemy forces
• You will see this enter the DM process in
greater force.
Troops and Fire Support
Technical and Tactical Analysis
• Technical - Understanding in whole the effects of
our weapons systems
- Ranges, Anti-Armor Capabilities, limitations of
optics, understanding our attachments.
- Have a distinct understanding of how the
enemies weapons systems can effect us.
Troops and Fire Support
Tactical - How to kill him not if we can.
• Capabilities of our Marines – Experience,
leadership, training.
• Human Factors – Fatigue, Morale.
• Ensure every capability / piece of support
is maximized…Set Conditions
TIME
• In regards to planning…
• In regards to our support…
- What fires are supporting me…
- What is the air window…
• In regards to execution… Are my actions
required for another phase on the battlefield
• What has to happen before I execute…
Anything Else…
Space….
• A leader must know and understand his area of
operation (AO), adjacent units, etc..
• Identify and develop Tactical Control Measures
(TCM),
• Develop a plan to de-conflict converging forces
and geometry of fires.
Logistics
• Ammunition – Supplies – CASEVAC support ?
What is the End-State
• MLCOA / MDCOA – What is that
• Identify CG - CV - Systematically and
Individually
• Begin assembly of Exploitation, which is
essentially a concept of your…
SUMMARY
• At what point does this action take place ?
- What was the first thing you did at the
BOC when an order was issued?
- Continual process throughout
• Is this process unique to you ?
- Once tasked subordinates need to be
able to execute same process...The
appreciation for this will grow with your
time here.