text: Military Terms
  ARFOR — The Army component and senior Army headquarters of all Army forces assigned or attached to a
  combatant command, subordinate joint force command, joint functional command, or multinational command.
  (FM 3-94)
  Army core competencies — The Army’s essential and enduring capabilities that define the Army’s fundamental
  contributions to the Nation’s security. (ADP 1-01)
  Army corps — (DOD) An echelon of command and tactical formations that employs divisions, multifunctional
  brigades, and functional brigades to achieve objectives on land. (JP 3-31)
  Army design methodology — A methodology for applying critical and creative thinking to understand, visualize,
  and describe problems and approaches to solving them. (ADP 5-0)
  Army division — (DOD) An echelon of command and tactical formation that employs brigade combat teams,
  multifunctional brigades, and functional brigades to achieve objectives on land. (JP 3-31)
  Army doctrine — Fundamental principles, with supporting tactics, techniques, procedures, and terms and
  symbols, used for the conduct of operations and as a guide for actions of operating forces, and elements of
  the institutional force that directly support operations in support of national objectives. (ADP 1-01)
  Army Health System — A component of the Military Health System that is responsible for operational
  management of the health service support and force health protection missions for training, predeployment,
  deployment, and postdeployment operations. The Army Health System includes all mission support services
  performed, provided, or arranged by the Army Medicine to support health service support and force health
  protection mission requirements for the Army and as directed, for joint, intergovernmental agencies, coalition,
  and multinational forces. (FM 4-02)
  Army leader — Anyone who by virtue of assumed role or assigned responsibility inspires and influences people
  by providing purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission and improve the organization. (ADP
  6-22)
  Army personnel recovery — The military efforts taken to prepare for and execute the recovery and
  reintegration of isolated personnel. (FM 3-50)
  Army Profession — A vocation of Soldiers and Department of the Army Civilians whose collective expertise is
  the ethical design of, support to, and application of landpower; serving under civilian authority; and entrusted
  to defend the Constitution and the rights and interests of the American people. (ADP 6-22)
  Army requirements review board — The ARFOR commander's established board to review, validate, approve,
  and prioritize selected contract support requests. (ATP 4-71) Also called ARRB.
  Army Service component command — (DOD) Command responsible for recommendations to the joint force
  Commander on the allocation and employment of Army forces within a combatant command. (JP 3-31) Also
  called ASCC.
  Army special operations aviation — Designated Active Component forces and units organized, trained, and
  equipped specifically to conduct air mobility, close air support, and other special air operations. (ADP 3-05)
  Army special operations forces — (DOD) Those Active and Reserve Component Army forces designated by
  the Secretary of Defense that are specifically organized, trained, and equipped to conduct and support special
  operations. (JP 3-05) Also called ARSOF.
  Army team building — A continuous process of enabling a group of people to reach their goals and improve
  their effectiveness through leadership and various exercises, activities, and techniques. (FM 6-22)
  art of tactics — Three interrelated aspects: the creative and flexible array of means to accomplish assigned
  missions, decision making under conditions of uncertainty when faced with a thinking and adaptive enemy,
  and the understanding of the effects of combat on Soldiers. (ADP 3-90)
  artillery target intelligence zone — A weapons locating radar search area in enemy territory that the
  commander monitor closely to detect and report any weapon ahead of all acquisitions other than those from
  critical friendly zones or call for fire zones. (FM 3-09) Also called ATIZ.
  assailable flank — A flank exposed to attack or envelopment. (ADP 3-90)
  assault — (Army) A short and violent well-ordered attack against a local objective. (FM 3-90)
  assault echelon — (Army) The element of a force that is scheduled for initial assault on the objective area. (FM
  1-02.1)
  assault position — A covered and concealed position short of the objective from which final preparations are
  made to assault the objective. (ADP 3-90)
  assault time — The moment to attack the initial objective throughout the geographical scope of the operation.
  (ADP 3-90)
  assembly area — An area a unit occupies to prepare for an operation. (FM 3-90)