ADP 3-0 — Operations
ADP 3-0 governs Army multidomain operations and their contribution to unified action against peer threats.
- Publication number: ADP 3-0
- Title: OPERATIONS
- Date: 03/21/2025
- Proponent: T2COM
- Status: ACTIVE
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It covers the strategic environment, operational variables, warfighting functions, combat power, combined arms, and multidomain operations. It also defines operational art and explains defeat and stability mechanisms, operational frameworks, and Army support to joint campaigning.
Topics covered
- Multidomain operations
- Army strategic roles
- Operational variables
- Warfighting functions
- Combat power
- Combined arms
- Operational art
- Defeat and stability mechanisms
Questions and answers
What are the Army’s four strategic roles?
The Armys strategic roles are shape operational environments, counter aggression during crisis, prevail during large-scale combat operations, and consolidate gains. (paragraph 1-19)
How does ADP 3-0 define task-organizing?
Task-organizing is the act of designing a force, support staff, or sustainment package of specific size and composition to meet a unique task or mission. (paragraph 2-31)
What operational variables must planners analyze?
Using the Army design methodology, planners analyze an operational environment in terms of eight interrelated operational variables: political, military, economic, social, information, infrastructure, physical environment, and time. (paragraph 1-53)
What does unified action mean?
Unified action is the synchronization, coordination, or integration of the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities with military operations to achieve unity of effort (JP 1, Volume 1). (paragraph 1-59)
What are the four defeat mechanisms?
Army forces at all echelons use combinations of four defeat mechanisms: destroy, dislocate, isolate, and disintegrate. (paragraph 4-38)