US Army Captains Career Course

Block-F100 Full Spectrum Operations
Module - 071-F110 Explain Full Spectrum Operations

Advance Sheet for Lesson 071-F113

Explain Elements of Combat Power

1. Scope
This one hour block of instruction introduces the student to the nature of combat power and how Army forces use the warfighting functions to generate combat power. The eight elements of combat power include the six warfighting functions—movement and maneuver, intelligence, fires, sustainment, command and control, and protection—multiplied by leadership and complemented by information. Commanders use combined arms to increase the effects of combat power through complementary and reinforcing capabilities. Army forces achieve combined arms through force tailoring, task organization, and mutual support. Most, if not all, students have experienced deployments prior to attending their Captain’s Career Course. This material will draw upon not just doctrinal references and instructor/mentor experiences but also student knowledge and deployment experiences.

The outcome of this lesson is to continue building the foundational knowledge to produce Tactical-level Full Spectrum Operators. This lesson will focus on developing leaders who can plan, prepare, execute, and assess simultaneous operations. Instructors should strive to include student experiences as well as share their own to more fully develop the lesson material. At the end of this lesson, students should be aware of the eight elements of combat power, the warfighting functions and how they integrate in Full Spectrum Operations.

The learning objectives of the Explain Army Task Organization lesson fosters the achievement of other lesson’s objectives, and vice versa. The linkages are as follows:

ELO 071-CCC-1000.01 Explain Army Organization
ELO 071-CCC-1000.02 Describe Doctrinal Hierarchy
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