What are the six AMD Principles you must memorize?

• A. Mass, Mobility, Integration, Flexibility, Agility
• B. Mass, Mix, Mobility, Integration, Flexibility
• C. Mass, Mix, Mobility, Integration, Flexibility, Agility
• D. Mass, Mobility, Integration, Flexibility, Agility

Answer: (C)

The six AMD Principles are Mass, Mix, Mobility, Integration, Flexibility, and Agility. These principles shape how you design and operate an air and missile defense to defeat diverse and evolving threats. Mass means concentrating firepower at decisive points to overwhelm the threat. Mix involves combining different systems and sensors so you can cover multiple threat envelopes and maintain redundancy. Mobility is the ability of units and assets to reposition in response to changing conditions and to exploit terrain. Integration ensures every part of the system—radars, missiles, command and control—works together seamlessly across services and domains. Flexibility allows adapting plans and forces to different missions without being locked into a single method. Agility is the speed of decision-making, movement, and action to respond quickly to rapid changes in the battlespace. If an option omits any of these elements, it doesn’t capture how AMD operations must be structured to be effective.