This manual provides general doctrine for commanders, staffs, and advisors responsible for stability operations within the overall interdepartmental internal defense and internal development IDAD effort. It is based upon the broad general guidance...
Headquarters, Department of the Army and the Air Force
Manual tells and shows how to rig certain types of ammunition and explosives in A-22 cargo bags and A-7A cargo slings for low- or high-velocity airdrop. These procedures apply only to the items listed in this manual.
This manual is for installation and unit movement coordinators, unit movement officers, convoy commanders, officers, and noncommissioned officers as guidance for planning, administration, and operation of convoys within the continental United...
This manual deals primarily with the tactical employment of the infantry rifle regiment. The instructions are also applicable in many respects to other types of infantry regiments. The procedures indicated in this manual should be considered as...
The purpose of this manual is to present the organization, characteristics, and missions of the cavalry reconnaissance troop, mechanized; and to set forth doctrine for its training and tactical employment. The scope of this manual includes...
This field manual gives information on the battalion commander and staff, battalion headquarters company, battalion medical section, administration, troop movements and security on the march, bivouacs, the offensive, defense, retrograde movements,...
The purpose of this manual is to outline a general guide for combat practice firing problems for armored units. The typical problems in this manual progress logically from basic ones, involving small units such as tank crews, rifle squads, and gun...
The purpose of this manual is to outline briefly the organization of the corps and Army, the organization and operation of assigned Signal Corps units, and the application of signal corps activities to tactical operations. This manual is based upon...
This manual provides the analytical tools needed to evaluate a stability operation or a support operation. Chapter 1 broadly defines stability operations and support operations. It gives historical examples and provides insight into the...
The purpose of this manual is to present the doctrine for the combat training and employment of the mechanized reconnaissances, including squadrons of the motorized infantry division and of the cavalry division. This manual covers the functional...
This field manual details tactical functions, troop movements, halts, bivouacs, offensive and defensive combat, artillery in retrograde movements, artillery in special operations, and supply and evacuation.
This infantry field manual gives information on the headquarters company (organization, company headquarters, intelligence and reconnaissance platoon, communication platoon), combat intelligence (technique, duties of intelligence personnel,...
The battalion is the basic tactical unit of infantry. It usually operates as an element of the infantry regiment. Its mission is assigned by the regimental commander, and its actions are coordinated with those of other units of the regiment....
This manual is a guide to the tactical employment of tank destroyer units both self-propelled and towed. The methods of employment described herein do not comprise a set of inflexible rules. Commanders must adapt the principles of employment...
This manual covers the tactical employment of the light and medium tank battalions both as part of a larger force and when acting independently. It is designed as a guide only and does not lay down a set of inflexible rules. Each tactical situation...
The purpose of this manual is to provide a text for the tactical training of cavalry reconnaissance squadrons, mechanized, and to present basic doctrine for their employment. This manual covers the organization, training, and employment of the...
This manual is designed as an aid for the uniform training of personnel in recognition of armored vehicles. It covers the methods to be used in training and the vehicles that at present are considered operational.
FM 100-5, Operations, is the Army's keystone warfighting manual. It explains how Army forces plan and conduct campaigns, major operations, battles, and engagements in conjunction with other services and allied forces. It furnishes the authoritative...
The first section of this field manual on antitank company, infantry regiment, covers medical service and evacuation, supply and motor maintenance, marches and bivouacs, offensive and defensive combat, the antitank platoon, antitank squad, and...
Discusses air support operations; tactical air support functions; organization of the air-ground operations system; and Army aviation support operations.