Which plan is any plan for the conduct of military operations prepared in response to contingencies and is the basis for development of an operation order?

Which plan is any plan for the conduct of military operations prepared in response to contingencies and is the basis for development of an operation order?

• A. CONPLAN
• B. Operational Plan
• C. Functional Plan
• D. OPLAN

Answer: (D)

In military planning, you develop a plan for the conduct of operations in response to contingencies, and that plan serves as the basis for issuing an operation order. This type of plan is called an OPLAN (operation plan). It lays out the overall concept, the forces involved, the anticipated sequencing, and potential branches to handle different contingencies, providing a cohesive framework that can be refined into an OPORD when execution is approved. A CONPLAN is a concept-level plan without specific courses of action or detailed execution guidance, so it isn’t the fully developed plan used to anchor an operation order. A functional plan targets a specific function rather than an entire operation, and the term “operational plan” is a broad label that doesn’t capture the formal contingency-based planning and its direct link to producing an OPORD like OPLAN does.

In military planning, you develop a plan for the conduct of operations in response to contingencies, and that plan serves as the basis for issuing an operation order. This type of plan is called an OPLAN (operation plan). It lays out the overall concept, the forces involved, the anticipated sequencing, and potential branches to handle different contingencies, providing a cohesive framework that can be refined into an OPORD when execution is approved.

A CONPLAN is a concept-level plan without specific courses of action or detailed execution guidance, so it isn’t the fully developed plan used to anchor an operation order. A functional plan targets a specific function rather than an entire operation, and the term “operational plan” is a broad label that doesn’t capture the formal contingency-based planning and its direct link to producing an OPORD like OPLAN does.