The Way the Army Fights Today

Abstract

The 2008 version of Field Manual (FM) 3-0 initiated a comprehensive change in Army doctrine by capturing the Army's experience of over seven years of combat and using it to change the way the Army conceptualized operations. It established full spectrum operations - simultaneous offensive, defensive, and stability or civil support operations - as the central concept of Army capabilities. Over the next two years the Army's full spectrum operations approach was validated in the crucible of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Change 1 to FM 3-0 builds on the tenets of this approach to increase the Army's operational adaptability by having the concept of mission command (MC) replace "battle command" as an activity and replace "command and control" as a warfighting function. During nearly a decade of war, both the operational environment and how the Army operates in it have changed. This article highlights MC and other major changes in Change 1 to FM 3-0 to account for the changes in the operational environment and how we operate in it. This is the critical first step in institutionalizing these changes so they can pervade the force.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA541134

Entities

People

  • Robert L. Caslen Jr.

Organizations

  • United States Army Combined Arms Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Afghanistan
  • Army
  • Army Training
  • Command And Control
  • Doctrine
  • Environment
  • Hybrid Threats
  • Information Operations
  • Knowledge Management
  • Operations Security
  • Security
  • Spectra
  • Stability Operations
  • Threats
  • Training
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control