States of the Military Goal Examples Environment Operations * Large-scale combat War Fight and win War iAttacks * Defenses * Strikes and raids A N * Peace enforcement Conflict Deter war and Other than Support to insurgency resolve conflict war N * Antiterrorism * Peacekeeping * NEO * Counterdrug * Disaster relief Peacetime Promote peace Other than * Civil support war Cvlspo * Peace building * Nation assistance The states of war, conflict, and peacetime could all exist at once in the theater commander's strategic environment. He can respond to requirements with a wide range of military operations. Noncombat operations might occur during war, just as some contingency operations might require combat. Figure 1-1. Range of military operations War involves the use of force in combat oper- World instability can cause the US to react ations against an enemy.
DesignationFM 5-100
EditionFeb 1996
StatusSuperseded
Pages219
FunctionEngineering
CollectionRecent Archive
Public domain (U.S. Government work)