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FM 100-5 Operations

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FM 100-5

Operations

Army · FM · Sep 1991 · 47 pages

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On 22 May 1941, the War Department published a new version of FM 100-6, Opemtions. This manual superseded a tentative 1939 version. The most recent official edition had been the Field Service Regulations dated 1923. The Army of 1941 desperately needed up-to-date doctrinal guidance. The world was already engulfed in war, and the United States had begun to mobilize, Thus, the Army was eight times larger than it had been in 1939. Moreover, it had also embarked on a modernization program that affected virtually every facet of military activity. The 1941 edition of FM 100-5 encapsulates the state of Army doctrine on the eve of America's entry into World War 11. This is the doctrine the Army took into the great Louisiana maneuvers of 1941. Later, it also guided the American soldiers through combat in places as diverse as New Guinea and Tunisia.

DesignationFM 100-5

EditionSep 1991

StatusSuperseded

Pages47

FunctionDoctrine Philosophy

CollectionRecent Archive

Public domain (U.S. Government work)