This 54-hour subcourse covers the doctrinal fundamentals, using an European scenario, as applied to the combined arms team's operations (armored/mechanized division). It teaches, through lectures, demonstrations, and practical exercises, how to analyze a corps operation plan (OPLAN) to identify a division's essential tasks; analyze avenues of approach; template the enemy's defending force; develop and analyze courses of action; recommend and select a course of action; task organize a division, to include corps assets; write an operation order (OPORD); and prepare an operation overlay. Many of these same items are treated during student led discussions of the historical analyses of the Battle of Schmidt. Course materials include: advance sheets; errata sheet; Lesson 1, Battle of Schmidt; Lesson 2, fundamentals of the corps OPLAN; Lesson 3, terrain and weather analysis; Lesson 4, know the enemy; Lesson 5, analysis of a course of action; Lesson 6, the division plan; Lesson 7, deliberate attack; Lesson 8, the hasty attack; Battle of Schmidt; overlays; maps.