Mobile Defense involves what outcome?

Mobile Defense involves what outcome?

• A. Denying enemy access to designated terrain for a specific time rather than destroying the enemy outright
• B. Withdrawing to a new position while in contact with the enemy
• C. Destruction/defeat of the enemy through a decisive attack by a striking force
• D. Maintaining tempo and defeating the enemy by attrition

Answer: (C)

The key idea here is that mobile defense aims to defeat the attacker through a decisive counterattack rather than merely delay or wear him down. In a mobile defense, you slow and disrupt the enemy, disrupt their tempo, and create an opportunity to strike with a prepared, mobile counterattack using a striking force. The successful outcome is the destruction or defeat of the enemy through that decisive attack, which restores the defender’s initiative and prevents the attacker from exploiting his gains. Other options describe reducing the enemy’s freedom of movement for a time, withdrawing while in contact, or defeating the enemy purely by attrition—none of which capture the decisive counterattack that defines mobile defense.

The key idea here is that mobile defense aims to defeat the attacker through a decisive counterattack rather than merely delay or wear him down. In a mobile defense, you slow and disrupt the enemy, disrupt their tempo, and create an opportunity to strike with a prepared, mobile counterattack using a striking force. The successful outcome is the destruction or defeat of the enemy through that decisive attack, which restores the defender’s initiative and prevents the attacker from exploiting his gains. Other options describe reducing the enemy’s freedom of movement for a time, withdrawing while in contact, or defeating the enemy purely by attrition—none of which capture the decisive counterattack that defines mobile defense.