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Title: Principles of War


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Principles of War
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Overview
  • Video
  • History
  • Principles of War

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Video
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History
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Principles of War
  • Objective
  • Offensive
  • Mass
  • Economy of force
  • Maneuver
  • Unity of Command
  • Security
  • Surprise
  • Simplicity

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Objective
  • Directs military operations toward a defined and
    attainable objective that contributes to
    strategic, operational, or tactical aims.

7
Offensive
  • Dictates that we act rather than react and
    dictate the time, place, purpose, scope,
    intensity, and pace of operations. The
    initiative must be seized, retained, and fully
    exploited.

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Mass
  • Concentrates combat power at the decisive time
    and place.
  • Strategic/National Level
  • Operational Level

9
Economy of Force
  • Creates usable mass by using minimum combat power
    on secondary objectives.
  • Makes fullest use of forces available.

10
Maneuver
  • Places the enemy in a position of disadvantage
    through the flexible application of combat power.
  • Disperse forces quickly in
    preparation
    for attack

11
Unity of Command
  • Ensures unity of effort for every objective under
    one responsible commander.

12
Security
  • Protects friendly forces and their operations
    from enemy actions which could provide the enemy
    with unexpected advantage.

13
Surprise
  • Strikes the enemy at a time or place or in a
    manner for which he is unprepared.
  • Enemies moral
  • Centers of Gravity

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Simplicity
  • Avoids unnecessary complexity in preparing,
    planning, and conducting military operations.

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Summary
  • Video
  • History
  • Principles of War

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Homework
  • Prepare for Lesson 15
  • Nature of War
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