FM 31-73: Advisory Handbook for Counterinsurgency

FM 31-73 Advisory Handbook for Counterinsurgency

FM 31-73

Advisory Handbook for Counterinsurgency

Army · FM · Apr 1965 · 219 pages

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CHAPTER 1 GENERAL 1. Purpose This manual provides the U.S. Army advisor to host country forces a ready reference document on doctrine and techniques which are most frequently employed in countering latent, incipient, and active insurgency. 2. Scope a. Tactics and techniques which are most frequently employed by advisors and host country military forces at all levels where the directives of the national govern- ment are translated into plans and operations. b. Support operations such as fire support, air support, military civic action, intelligence, counterintelligence, and psychological operations with particular emphasis on planning and communications. c. Relationships between the Army advisor and other members of the U.S. country team (USAID, USIS, etc.).

DesignationFM 31-73

EditionApr 1965

StatusSuperseded

Pages219

FunctionSmall Unit Tactics

CollectionHistoric

Public domain (U.S. Government work)

References 20

FM 30-18Not in the Vault
FM 31Not in the Vault
FM 31-7Not in the Vault
FM 21-77ANot in the Vault