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English: A field manual of operations doctrine released by the US Army in 1982. Date: 20 August 1982: Source: US Army: Author:
The 1976 edition of FM100-5 was the inaugural publication of the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command. [6] [7] AirLand Battle was first promulgated in the 1982 version of FM 100-5, [8] and revised the FM 100-5 version of 1986. [9] [10] By 1993 the Army had seen off the Soviet threat and moved on. [11] [12]
This publication supersedes FM 100–5, 20 August 1982. Introduced concept of AirLand Battle. John A. Wickham, Jr. INACTIVE: FM 100–5: FM 100–5, Operations: 20 August 1982 [19] This publication supersedes FM 100–5, 1 July 1976. Edward C. Meyer: INACTIVE: C1, FM 100–5: FM 100–5, Operations (with included Change No. 1) 29 April 1977 [20]
AirLand Battle was the overall conceptual framework that formed the basis of the US Army's European warfighting doctrine from 1982 into the late 1990s. AirLand Battle emphasized close coordination between land forces acting as an aggressively maneuvering defense, and air forces attacking rear-echelon forces feeding those front line enemy forces.
FM 3–0.5.130, Army Special Operations Forces Unconventional Warfare. Establishes keystone doctrine for Army special operations forces operations in unconventional warfare. FM 5–31, Boobytraps – Describes how regular demolition charges and materials can be used for victim-initiated explosive devices. This manual is no longer active, but is ...
The 1976 version of Operations was the first in the series to incorporate force ratios as a decision-making tool. The manual heavily emphasized the favorability of defending with a ratio of 3:1, mentioning it in five varying forms of application at both the tactical and the operational levels of war, similar to the argument advanced in ...
Colonel Holder was instrumental in developing FM 100-5, the Airland Battle concept that replaced the "Active Defense" strategy used until the mid 1980s. This required buy-in by the USAF, and centered around getting inside the enemy decision making loop, and using tactical strikes to delay or disrupt follow on enemy units.
FM 100.5 [further explanation needed] BC is defined as the art of battle decision-making, leading, and motivating soldiers and their organizations into action to accomplish missions. BC includes visualizing the current state and future state, formulating concepts of operations to get from one to the other, and doing so at least cost. Assigning ...