Assured access is the desired conditions that the United States seeks to maintain in potential areas of strategic importance throughout the world. Assured access is the result of a combination of geopolitical factors that affect the United…Current232 pagesSmall Unit Tactics
This publication is organized into six chapters: Chapter 1 describes personnel recovery. It defines Army personnel recovery and discusses the foundations of personnel recovery. It explains Army personnel recovery components and concludes…Current104 pagesFieldcraft Survival
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.…Current460 pagesSmall Unit Tactics
Tactics are the employment, ordered arrangement, and directed actions of forces in relation to each other. Leaders select tactics that accomplish their assigned mission. Successful tactics require generating and applying combat power. This…Current480 pagesSmall Unit Tactics
Army doctrine is fundamental principles, with supporting tactics, techniques, procedures, and terms and symbols, used for the conduct of operations and as a guide for actions of operating forces, and elements of the institutional force…Current50 pagesCBRN
This version of FM 3-09 codifies the multidomain approach to fire support and field artillery operations in terms of the combined arms employment of capabilities from multiple domains. A domain is a physically defined portion of an…Current284 pagesFires
While U.S. forces are among the most technologically advanced forces in the world, the need for redundancy and interoperability between joint and multinational forces requires the continued use of analog communication systems. Other…Current236 pagesFires
Over the last three decades, assumptions of individual domain supremacy and the break in great-power security competition drove the U.S. joint force doctrine, equipment, and readiness posture. These assumptions have evolved when faced with…Current96 pagesOther
FM 3-12 provides Army doctrine for cyberspace operations, electromagnetic warfare, and cyberspace electromagnetic activities as part of a combined arms approach to achieve objectives across the competition continuum. FM 3-12 provides…Current238 pagesComms Signal
FM 3-08 focuses on the essential aspects of CASEVAC within the military framework, aligning its content with the principles and strategies outlined in FM 3-0 and FM 4-02. Beyond its role in medical care, CASEVAC is a critical enabler of…Current158 pagesSmall Unit Tactics
Army Aviation is the division's and corps' most maneuverable force. Army Aviation forces are uniquely capable of rapidly and simultaneously impacting the deep, close, and rear operations of multiple echelons. Army Aviation forces provide…Current164 pagesAviation
Command and control is fundamental to joint and Army operations. Command and control is the exercise of authority and direction by a properly designated commander over assigned and attached forces in the accomplishment of a mission (JP 1).…Current184 pagesComms Signal
Whenever commonality of interests exists, nations enter political, economic, or military partnerships, or combinations thereof. These partnerships occur in regional and worldwide patterns as nations seek opportunities to promote their…Current148 pagesDoctrine Philosophy
The current strategic environment–with revanchist Russia and revisionist China–is typified by continuous competition among great powers which challenges the security environment and operational deterrence. Subsequently, today's operational…Current104 pagesFires
Department of Defense Directive 5100.01 charges the Army to "conduct air and missile defense to support joint campaigns and assist in achieving air superiority." FM 3-01 describes the contributions of ADA, the Army's dedicated AMD…Current218 pagesFires
This version of FM 3-0 is an update to the edition published in October 2022. The manual retains the focus on large-scale combat operations and reinforces the point: all operations are multidomain operations. Since 2022, the Army learned…Current296 pagesDoctrine Philosophy
Army leaders are the competitive advantage the Army possesses that neither technology nor advanced weaponry and platforms can replace. Developing leaders is a complex and complicated undertaking because it is primarily a human…Current192 pagesLeadership Training
The Army Engineer Regiment has a mixture of capabilities that spans the active and reserve components to the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and Civilian corps. The regiment contains three basic categories of operating force…Current160 pagesEngineering
This version of FM 3-27 reaffirms global MD operations as paramount to the security of the U.S. and its allies. The term global MD, as used throughout this document, implies defense against ballistic missile only; though future revisions…Current96 pagesFires
This publication compiles Department of Defense Military Standard (MIL-STD) 2525E approved military symbols applicable to land operations for use in U.S. Army doctrinal publications, situation maps, overlays, and annotated aerial…Current296 pagesDoctrine Philosophy
Intelligence drives multidomain operations and multidomain operations enable intelligence. FM 2-0 focuses on the role of intelligence during operations by Army forces and is closely nested with the operational doctrine in FM 3-0,…Current328 pagesRecon Intel
Advances in civilian and military technology have changed the character of warfare and the conduct of Army and joint force operations. The dilemmas posed by the integration of new technologies into the future battlefield have changed the…Current256 pagesSustainment
FM 3-52 Airspace Control, updates the previous 8 February 2013 version of FM 3-52 to reflect lessons learned through recent operational experience and to adapt to the joint airspace community's release of updates to JP 352, and ATP 3-52.1…Current110 pagesAviation
30 May 2026 FM 1-02.1 v This third edition of FM 1-02.1 compiles all Army terms and definitions approved for use in Army doctrinal publications, including ADPs, FMs, and ATPs. It also includes joint and North Atlantic Treaty Organization…Current150 pagesDoctrine Philosophy
Get there first, with the most men. Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA (1821-1877) The end of the Cold War caused fundamental changes in the international security situation and US military strategy, resulting in a profound redirection…Current175 pagesDoctrine Philosophy
+Acknowledgements The copyright owners listed here have granted permission to reproduce material from their work. The Source Notes lists other sources of information. Photos developed by the U.S. Army Center for Initial Military Training…Current240 pagesLeadership Training
In today's complicated and uncertain world, it is impossible to predict the exact nature of future conflict that might involve the U.S. Army. So the Army must be ready to meet the challenges of any type of conflict, in all kinds of places,…Current368 pagesRecon Intel
This manual establishes a foundation for the Judge Advocate General's (JAG's) Corps and judge advocate legal services (JALS) personnel to provide principled counsel and mission-focused legal support to the operational Army. It establishes…Current100 pagesCBRN
As one of the Army's five core competencies, special operations are activities or actions requiring distinct modes of employment, tactical techniques, equipment, and training, often conducted in hostile, denied, or politically or…Current102 pagesSmall Unit Tactics
The Army gives the combatant commander depth and versatility because landpower expands the friendly range of military options. The Army, uniquely, provides a combination of armored, medium, light, and airborne forces. Along with a full…Current212 pagesDoctrine Philosophy
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