AirLand Battle doctrine has greatly increased the need for timely, accurate intelligence. It has also expanded intelligence responsibilities in time and space. This paper uses nine Battle Command Training Program evaluations, three Command and...
This monograph examines the problem of developing priority intelligence requirements at the operational level. Tactical and strategic priority intelligence requirements have been clearly defined and are taught throughout the military education...
This study is about intelligence at the operational level. Specifically, it discusses intelligence preparation of the battlefield (IPB) and its relationship with campaign planning. At the tactical level of war, the Army feels rather comfortable...
This monograph examines the gap that exists between the intelligence collection missions of the division in the contingency corps and the capabilities to execute these collection requirements. Doctrine tells us that a division in a contingency...
This monograph examines the Soviet Red Army's use of norms and nomograms in fire support planning and questions why the US Army does not use norms or monograms in the same manner. The Soviets argue that norms and nomograms allow them to provide...
This monograph examines operational exploitation and questions if enough guidance is available to give a commander the detail required to execute such an operation. Field Manual 100-5, Operations, requires commanders to plan exploitation as an...
The concern over the infantry squad’s effectiveness in the recent past has focused almost exclusively on its size. Critics argue that the current US Army infantry squads, both light and mechanized, are too small to accomplish their mission...
The principles of war have been a part of US Army doctrine since 1949. In 1989 with the publication of JCS Pub. 3-0, Doctrine for Joint Operations, the principles of war also became part of Joint doctrine. However, other than their reference in JCS...
As large scale conventional war with the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact has all but disappeared as a credible threat to the security of the United States, our nation is shifting its defense focus toward the lower end of the operational continuum...
History is replete with evidence of how change in political, economic, and social conditions forge alterations in a nation's military posture. Today, the forces of change are rampant, especially in NATO's Central European theater. Recent...
This study examines current U.S. Army rear operations doctrine as it applies to the tactical level of war. Specifically, it analyzes the ability of a heavy U.S. Corps conducting offensive operations to conduct successful rear operations against a...
This monograph examines the intelligence requirements of logistics planners at the operational level of war. Specifically, it analyzes what information is available to sustainment planners, the form of that information as it is used in the staff...
What is the relevance of The Military Conflict Institute's new military combat theory for the tactical commander? The answer to this question highlights the long debate over the role of science and art in the commander's estimate, a debate which...
Crane Brinton's analysis of popular revolutions offers the strategic and operational planner a valid model for checking the consistency of ends, ways and means, for campaign plans. As a planning tool, Brinton's model fills a gap in FM 100-20, which...
This monograph discusses the Army's decision to round-out light infantry divisions with reserve component personnel. The unique "spectrum of conflict" requirements upon which the light infantry division force design and operational concept were...
Throughout history, the process of targeting the enemy and its elements of power has been an essential component of achieving victory in warfare. The process of identifying, prioritizing and affecting targets in accordance with national goals and...
This monograph discusses the recent changes in the Warsaw Pact threat and the resultant impact upon U.S. military strategy. The paper outlines the requirement for the Army to look for new and innovative ways to establish itself as a viable element...
This monograph examines the adequacy of command and control doctrine for joint amphibious operations in limited warfare, focusing on command and control structure and unity of command. Current joint doctrine in several new Joint Chiefs of Staff...
This monograph examines the adequacy of current fire support command and control doctrine for the employment of U.S. forces in a low intensity conflict (LIC) environment. Current Army doctrine establishes the fire support coordinator (FSCOORD)...
This monograph examines how and why Soviet tactical artillery dominance threatens victory on the AirLand Battlefield. Soviet tactical/operational doctrine, as delineated in the 1987 version of Taktika, is offensively oriented, stresses combined...