ATP 6-0.5: Command Post Organization and Operations

ATP 6-0.5 Command Post Organization and Operations

ATP 6-0.5

Command Post Organization and Operations

Army · ATP · Mar 2017 · 114 pages

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A command post is a unit headquarters where the commander and staff perform their activities during operations. (JP 3-0) Based on the situation, commanders organize their mission command system (personnel, networks, information systems, processes and procedures, facilities and equipment) into CPs to assist them in the exercise of mission command. Headquarters have evolved throughout military history. In the nineteenth century, Napoleon recognized that a headquarters that provided the planning and analytic capability for a campaign was too large to use in battle. He exercised command through a smaller grouping brought forward from the larger headquarters. By World War II, U.S. Army doctrine clearly specified dividing an organization's headquarters into two echelons: forward and rear.

DesignationATP 6-0.5

EditionMar 2017

StatusActive

ProponentTRADOC

Pages114

FunctionLeadership Training

CollectionCurrent Doctrine

Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited. HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY This publication is avail

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ATP 3-37.34Not in the Vault
ATP 3-11.50Not in the Vault
ATP 2-01Not in the Vault
ADRP 5Not in the Vault
TM 2-66Not in the Vault