Leadership Checklist

Considerations for All Scenarios

1) What assets do you have?

2) What are your mission success conditions?

3) What do you know about the enemy assets and which of your assets will you use to counter them?

4) What assets will you directly manage and what assets will you delegate?

6) Delegate subordinates to mark and name points of interest and reference points like roads.

5) Start sketching out your general plan, build a series of overall steps that will result in mission success. Communicate your intent to your subordinates.

Resupply

• Do you have resupply?
• Who is managing resupply?

MMG / HMG Support

• Will they be a Squad or Platoon asset?
• MG teams need support to hold security
• MG teams are ideal to hold open areas or ambush enemies from protected positions

HAT / MAT Support

• Will they be a Squad or Platoon asset?
• Be prepared for enemy heavy armour like BMPs or MBTs
• Depending on visibility, lock on or guided assets work well from elevated positions
• Unguided teams work best from the flank of enemy armour

Armed Vehicles

• Are vehicles a fireteam asset, Squad Asset, or Platoon Asset?
• Are vehicles an autonomous asset?
  • Are they under your direct command or will you subordinate command?

• Do you have vehicle rearm and repair?
  • Create a plan for resupplying vehicles during the mission

Indirect Fire Support

Close Air Support

Unarmed Transportation

1) What transport do you have and will they hold all your infantry?

2) Do you expect your infantry to keep their vehicles or leave them behind?

Fighting at Night

Fighting in a Jungle

• Strongly consider utilizing jungle formation **ADD LINK TO JUNGLE FORMATION ARTICLE**
• If map markers or radios are limited, consider keeping your units close together.
• If communications are limited, ensure units are echoing orders.

Fighting in a Desert

No Radio / RTO

• Keep units close together if communications are limited
• Ensure that units are regularly reporting in
• Ensure that units are echoing orders among their teams and squads and between squads if necessary

(WIP)

-What are your important assets?

-What are your priorities (within your structure)?

-What can you delegate?

-Are there difficult mission circumstances you can mitigate? How?

-Then, get to the movement and squad positioning. This stuff can be practiced in your own time if you don't feel very confident about it. Shit happens and can sometimes snowball into being more time consuming than you'd like, but this point should be one of the smaller percentages of briefing time.