Sustainment and Tactical 1/8 ABCT Operations The objective of this military operation is to use the decisive force to defeat the enemy on our northern flank in order to protect our division's main body. The intent of the operation is to dedicate our forces to seize the OBJ BRAVO, a city situated 80 kilometers west of BRIDGEPORT. The important decisive operation of our division is to liberate and protect the II Corps by seizing the OBJ BRAVO.

Analysis and Development of Doctrinal Solutions to OBJ Tactical Problems

Mission Statement

Our core mission is to use fire as well as using the maneuvering tactic to repel the attack and destroy the enemy's forces. We will also develop our force using a unified action plan. We will exercise the authority and direction for our unified land operation, and integrate all the military functions for our mission accomplishment. Our effective approach is to use orderly, precise and efficient control to repel the enemy's attacks by using the close combat, counterattacks and open fire on them. We will use the military tactics to demoralize, confuse and exhaust the enemies. Our mission is to defeat the enemy situated on the northern flank to protect our division's main body. Additionally, the 1/8 ABCT will achieve the decisive operation by advancing our division to exercise our authority using a disciplined intent and initiative to conduct and implement a unified land operation. We will also use different tactics to exercise a correct doctrine, authority, and operational process to initiate our mission order[footnoteRef:1]. [1: Department of Army. Mission Command. Army Doctrine Reference Publication. 2012.]

2. Mission Intent

Intent of 1/8 ABCT Commander's to achieve the Mission

Our "ABCTs are designed to conduct offensive, defensive, and stability operations. Our core role is to close with the enemy by means of fire and maneuver to destroy or capture enemy forces, or to repel their attacks by fire, close combat, and counterattack." [footnoteRef:2] [2: Department of Army. ATP 4-90 Brigade Support Battalion. Army Techniques Publication 2014. No. 4-90.]

Our intent is to facilitate the ABCT and seize the OBJ BRAVO using the tactical maneuver to breach obstacles, and integrate fires into our maneuver plan to maintain the operational tempo. Our intent is also neutralize the enemy's forces. We have observed that the enemies have overturned the vehicles along the building materials on the ROUTE ORANGE at the south of BRIDGEPORT, thus, our intent is to overcome and break all these obstacles to assist the friendly forces deploying their military equipment to neutralize the enemy forces. Additionally, we will disrupt the enemy forces by approaching the BRIDGEPORT and disburse consistency and accurate RPG to attack the enemies. We will increase the fire intensity at the enemies as they approach the outskirt and outside of the city, and the fire will assist in destroying and suppressing the enemy forces and breach their operations.

Our end state is to carry out the decisive action to achieve simultaneous, continuous offensive, and defensive tasks. We will also combine offensive, defensive and the element of stability to exploit an initiative to maintain and gain the position to achieve relative advantages using the stability, defensive and offensive operations to destroy the enemy forces.[footnoteRef:3] [3: Department of Army .FM 3-90-1 Offense and Defense Volume 1. Field Manual No. 201. (2013). 3-90 Volume.]

3. Identification of ABCT's primary Offensive or Defensive task

Our task is to develop offensive position at the BRIDGEPORT over ROUTE ORANGE across the CENTER RIVER. Our offensive action is to destroy and defeat the enemy force and take control of the OBJ BRAVO. We will also use the offensive action to deprive the enemies of their resources. Our strategy includes audacity, concentration, surprise, and tempo. We will use effective action to capitalize on timely and accurate intelligence as well as collecting other relevant information about the enemies. We will defeat and destroy the enemy's forces to seize and secure the terrain by using a coordinated movement supported by using the decisive operations and fire to destroy the enemy's tactics and disposition[footnoteRef:4]. Moreover, we will use the offensive strategy to implement successive attack in order to disintegrate and disorganize the enemy's forces which will make them having no choice but to flee or surrender. We will use an offensive strategy to neutralize enemy forces and breach obstacles they might have used to debar our offensive attacks. We will accomplish our objective through penetration offensive tactics to attack and destroy the enemy base. We will improve our mobility with the assistance of our engineer with the intent to suppress the enemy armor and their infantry forces....

(Department of Army, 2013). We will maneuver our forces to reach advantageous position and implement protection tasks such as operations security, security operations as well as information protection to inhibit and prevent the enemies from acquiring necessary information about the friendly forces. We will use a decisive operation to expand our operations. We will also use violent without hesitation in order to break and destroy the enemy will. [4: Department of Army. Mission Command. Army Doctrine Reference Publication. 2012.]
4. Explication and Identification of the ABCT's Decisive Operation

Our decisive operations are to defeat and destroy the enemies' weapons using offensive tactics and attack their military base to prevent them disrupting our operations. Moreover, we will attack the enemies and destroy their infantry and infantry forces. We will use an offensive tactic to defeat and destroy their forces by using deliberate and hasty strategy. (Department of Army, 2013). Our decisive operation will consist audacity, surprise, concentration and tempo. We will use offensive strategy, accurate and timely intelligence to destroy their forces, and maneuver our forces to gain an advantageous position. Our forces will develop operation tasks for the operational security to prevent and inhibit the enemies' from acquiring necessary information. (Department of Army, 2014). Our decisive operation is by using the penetration tactics in order to capture the north of BRIDGEPORT as well as south of MARYSVILLE. Our critical decisive operation is to use the shattering and sudden attacks to destroy the enemy's forces. We will also break and destroy their will by implementing a violent execution.

5. Explication and Identification of the ABCT's Shaping Operation

Our shaping operation involves using the hostile forces to destroy the enemies. We will use decisive operation on our enemy using demonstration, ambush, feint, counterattack, spoiling attack and raid. We will track our progress and help the subordinate penetrating the enemy forces, their security areas as well as their defensive positions. We will use all our available resources to prevent the enemy changing position to gain time using military deception to disintegrate their defensive position. Our shaping position is also to destabilize the ABCT shaping operation and disrupt their zone of support.

Section 2: Sketch and Explanation

The Appendix 1 reveals the visualization of I/8 ABCT's operation used to solve the tactical problem. The paper uses the PowerPoint for the sketch, which is transferred to the word document to assist in enhancing a greater understanding of the ABCT's operations.

a. Depict Cavalry Squadron Location

The cavalry squadron's on the sketch is located at the 1/8 north road within the ABCT area. The main goal of setting up the cavalry squadron is to enhance a maximum security for the military personnel and facilitating the tasks of ABCT's commander in order to maneuver the ABCT battalions, assist them using their superior power tactics against our enemy. The vital role of the cavalry is to assist the commander carrying out offensive and defensive missions. The location of the cavalry squadron will also assist us launching effective warfare using tactical sense, cut their communication line, attack their vulnerability, and destroy the enemy's service support.

b. Task and Purpose of Cavalry Squadron

The task of the cavalry squadron is to implement the combat forces, tactical senses and use a swift movement to attack and destroy enemies' line of communication. We will use the cavalry to maneuver our tactical senses and strategy to launch offensive attacks. Similarly, we will use our superior military power against the enemies.

c.EACH Combined Arms Battalion's located on the Sketch.

The location of each arm battalion on the sketch is in the Eastern part of the 1/8 ABCT . The western part is the stationed of 1/8 ABCT battalion within 80 kilometers to the OBJ BRAVO. As being revealed in the sketch, the 1/8 ABCT battalion is at the southern part, a 20-kilometer to the Center river. Thus, the combined arm of our battalion is stationed at the western, eastern, and southern part in the sketch.

d.Task and Purpose of EACH of Combined Arms Battalion

The purpose and task of 1/8 ABCT stationed in the eastern part are to launch a military assault at Bridgeport, which is one of the enemies' bases. The attack is to assist the friendly forces deploying assets as quickly as possible. The tasks of I/8 ABCT at western and southern parts are to launch an attack at OBJ BRAVO with the intent to seize the OBJE BRAVO.

d. Depict Fires Battalion's Location on the Sketch

The fire battalion's location is based at 8ID 1/8 ABCT, which is at the Eastern…