METT-TCAPT MULVANEY

MISSION

What is required by the tactical task given to you?

TACTICAL TASKS & PURPOSETACTICAL TASKS & PURPOSEWRT FRIENDLY FORCES

• Screen

• Guard

• Cover

• Withdraw

• Retire

• Follow and support

• Breach

• Disengage

• Exfiltrate

• Infiltrate

• Support by fire

• Attack by fire

• Displace

• Counter Reconnaissance

• Follow and Assume

• Link up

• Follow

WRT TERRAIN

• Seize

• Secure

• Clear

• Occupy

• Retain

• Recon

• Control

• Reconnoiter

WRT ENEMY

• Disrupt

• Defeat

• Destroy

• Block

• Contain

• Fix

• Canalize

• Delay

• Interdict

• Isolate

• Penetrate

• Suppress

• Neutralize

• Feint

• Demonstrate

• Ambush

• Bypass

WRT ENEMY

• Attack by Fire

• Breach

• Cover

• Exploit

• Guard

• Protect

• Reconnoiter

• Rupture

• Screen

• Support by fire

IOT:• Allow• Attrit• Cause• Create• Deceive• Deny• Enable• Influence• Locate• Open• Prevent• Protect• Support• Surprise

TYPES & FORMS OF OPERATIONSSecurity 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

Forms of Maneuver•Penetration•Frontal ATK•Flanking ATK•Envelopment•Turning Movement•Infiltration

Types of Offensive Ops•Movement to Contact•Attack•Exploitation•Pursuit

Types of Def Ops•Mobile Defense•Position Defense•Delay•Withdrawal•RetirementOrgan. 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.