The Army provides readily available, trained and equipped, and globally responsive forces to shape the operational environment, prevent conflict, and prevail in large-scale ground combat while consolidating gains as part of unified action. Army forces, which consist of trusted Army professionals of character, competence, and commitment, maintain proficiency in the fundamentals of unified land operations, the Army's operational concept, and possess capabilities to meet specific geographic combatant command requests. Army forces provide combatant commanders with BCTs—a combined arms, close combat force that can operate as part of a division or a joint task force. BCTs, with unified action partners, conduct land operations to shape security environments, prevent conflict, prevail in ground combat, and consolidate gains.
DesignationFM 3-96
EditionJan 2021
StatusActive
ProponentTRADOC
Pages460
FunctionSmall Unit Tactics
EchelonBrigade
CollectionCurrent Doctrine
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. This publication supersedes FM 3-96, dated 8 October 2015. HEADQ