FM 71-3: The Armored and Mechanized Brigade Operations

FM 71-3 The Armored and Mechanized Brigade Operations

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FM 71-3

The Armored and Mechanized Brigade Operations

Army · FM · Jul 1980 · 122 pages

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FM 71-3 company and appropriate field artillery and service support. Battle groups were self- contained and could be employed singly or in combinations. In armored divisions, the combat command system remained largely unchanged. In the early 1960s the Army reorganized once more. The combat command concept of armored divisions was adopted for all divisions. Combat commands were called brigades, and each division had three brigades under whose command various numbers and types of battalions could be grouped. Today, US Army armored and mechanized brigades, divisional and separate, are stationed throughout the world. These brigades have about five times the firepower of their World War II ancestors, the combat commands. New equipment to be introduced in the next few years will further increase their capabilities.

DesignationFM 71-3

EditionJul 1980

StatusSuperseded

Pages122

FunctionSmall Unit Tactics

EchelonBrigade

CollectionRecent Archive

Public domain (U.S. Government work)

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