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ADP 1
The Army

ADP 1-01
Doctrine Primer

ADP 6-22 ADP 3-0 ADP 7-0

Army Leadership Operations Traning Units and
Developing Leaders

Army Doctrine
Reference Publications

ADP 3-90 ADP 3-28 ADP 5-0 ADP 1-02

ADP 3-07 The Operations Operational
Offense and Stability Defense Support
Process Terms and Military
Defense of Civil Authorities Symbols

ADP 6-0 ADP 2-0 ADP 3-09 ADP 4-0 ADP 3-37 ADP 3-05
Mission Intelligence Fires Sustainment Protection Special
Command Operations

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 Army Doctrine References

:: major concepts ::
ADRP 1
The Army

ADRP 1-03
The Army
Universal Task
List

ADRP 6-22 ADRP 3-0 ADRP 7-0

Army Leadership Operations Training Units and
Developing Leaders

ADRP 3-90 ADRP 3-07 ADRP 3-28 ADRP 5-0 ADRP 1-02
Offense and Stability Defense The Operational
Defense Support of Civil Operations Terms and Military
Symbols
Authorities Process

ADRP 6-0 ADRP 2-0 ADRP 3-09 ADRP 4-0 ADRP 3-37 ADRP 3-05
Mission Intelligence Fires Sustainment Protection Special
Command Operations

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 ADP 1 The Army
I am an American Soldier
Our Service CONTENTS Soldiers Creed
I am an American Soldier.
Our Profession I am a Warrior and a member of a team. Download ADP
The Army and the I will always place the mission first
Joint Force I will never accept defeat.
Our Continuing Duty I will never quit.
I will never leave a fallen comrade.
I serve the people of the United States and live the
Army Values.
I am disciplined, physically and mentally
tough, trained and proficient in my Download ADRP
warrior tasks and drills. I always
maintain my arms, my equipment
and myself.
Army Values
I am an expert and I am a
Loyalty professional.
Duty I stand ready to deploy,
Respect engage, and destroy
the enemies of the
Selfless Service United States of
Honor America in close
Integrity combat.
Personal Courage I am a guardian of
freedom and the
American way of
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life.
I am an American
Soldier.

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 ADP 1-02 Operational Terms and Military Symbols
Order must be commonly understood by all.
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TERMINOLOGY
CONTENTS
Terminology
The common English language dictionary is the foundation and primary source for terms and definitions.
Acronyms and Army/Marine Corps terminology only supplements the English language dictionary when a term is not
Abbreviations adequately defined to meet military or associated use. Terms and definitions should only be established
Symbology
to facilitate the understanding of current doctrine and used in a specific context.

Components of a framed military symbol Components of a unframed military symbol

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Graphic Text Graphic Text
Modifier Amplifier

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 ADP 6-22 Army Leadership
Influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivatio

The process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and

CONTENTS
Purpose of Leadership motivation to accomplish the mission and improve the organization.
Components of Leadership

Applying Influence The Leadership Requirements Model establishes what leaders need to be,
Leader Attributes
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Leader Competencies AT T R I B U T E S
Leaders and Courage CHARACTER PRESENCE INTELLECT
Army Values Military and Mental agility
Army Leadership Requirements Model
Situational Leadership professional bearing
Empathy Sound judgment
Warrior Ethos / Fitness Innovation
Informal and Collective Leadership
Service Ethos Confidence Interpersonal tact
Command and Leadership Discipline Resillence Expertiese Download FM

Leadership Requirements Model

How Leaders Develop LEADS DEVELOPS ACHIEVES

Leads others Creates a positive Gets results
Builds trust environment/ Fosters
esprit de corps
Extends influence
Prepares self
beyond the chain of
command Develops others
Outcomes
Secured U.S. interests
Leads by example Stewards the profession
Mission success
Communicates
Sound decisions
Expertly led organizations
COMPETENCIES Stewardship of resources
Stronger families
• Oath to Constitution Combat Power: Influence: Commitment, Positive and harmful
Other documents: • Subordinate to law & Unifier and Compliance and forms of leadership Fit units
civilian authority Multiplier Resistance Healthy climates
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Engaged Soldiers & Civilians

Special Formal – designated by rank or position, command is an example

Levels of Direct – Refine ability to apply competencies at a proficient level
Leadership Organizational – Apply competencies to increasingly complex situations Conditions of Informal – take initiative and apply special expertise when appropriate
Strategic – Shape the military through change over extended time Leadership Collective – synergistic effects achieved with multiple leaders aligned by purpose
Situational – actions adjusted to complex and uncertain environments

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 ADP 3-0 Unified Land Operations

Figure 1 Unified Action
Unified land operations
underlying logic Central idea: synchronization, coordination, and/or integration of the

CONTENTS
Army Operations activities of governmental and non-governmental entities with military
operations to achieve unity of effort

Military Operations Download

Anticipated Operational Unified Land Operation ADP

Environment Seize, retain, and exploit the initiative to gain and maintain a
Operational Art position of relative advantage in sustained land operationsdin
• US must project power
order to create the conditions for favorable conflict resolution

To cope with these, we must…

into region, opposed

To cope with these, we must…
• US must seize at least
Operations Structure one base of operations Decisive Action
(maybe more) offensive defensive stability DSCA
• Threat of WMD will By means of... Download
Combat Power require dispersal of US
forces and decentralized
Army Core Competencies ADRP
combined arms maneuver wide area security
operations
• Size of theater (space and Guided by...
population) will exceed US
ability to control Mission Command

To do this we must...

Organize effort within a commonly understood construct
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Develop operations Cognitively link
characterized by tactical actions to FM
flexibility, integration, strategic objectives
lethality, adaptability,
Operations Structure
depth, and Provide a broad Provide basic options Provide intellectual
synchronization process for conducting for visualizing and organization for common
operations describing operations critical tasks

Tenets Operational Operations Operational Warfightin

Flexibility Art
Process Framework Functions
Integration The pursuit of strategic Plan Decisive-Shaping- Mission Command
Other documents: Lethality objectives, in whole - Army Design Sustaining Movement and
• Briefing Adaptability or in part, through the Methodology Deep-Close-Security Maneuver
Depth arrangement of tactical - MDMP Intelligence
- TLP Main and Supporting DSCA defense support of civil authorities
Synchronization actions in time, space, Fires MDMP military decisionmaking process
and purpose Prepare Efforts Sustainment TLP troop leading procedures
Execute
Protection WMD weapons of mass destruction
Assess

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 ADP 7-0 Training Units and Developing Leaders
Applies to all leaders and all organizational levels
Unified Action

CONTENTS
Central idea: synchronization, coordination and/or integration of Download
The Role of Training and the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities ADP
Leader Development with military operations to achieve unity of effort.

Principles of Unit Training

Unified Land Operations
and Leader Development How the Army seizes, retains, and exploits the initiative to gain
and maintain a position of relative advantage in sustained land
Unit Training Management operations through simultaneous offensive, defensive, and
stability operations in order to prevent or deter conflict, prevail in
war, and create the conditions for favorable conflict resolution.
Executed through Downlaod
Decisive Action ADRP
offense defense stability DSCA
Guided by
Mission Command

Prepare units for conducting operations and developing leaders

through the following concepts and processes:
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Roles of Training Principles of Unit Training

and Leader Training and Leader Management
Development Development
• Training and leader • Principles of unit • The operations
development training process in training
https://atn.army.mil/
• Training • Principles of leader and leader
development
• Leader development
development • Plan
• Role of the • Prepare
commander • Execute
• Assess
Other documents:
• Briefing
Unit training management
located on the
Army Training Network
(https://atn.army.mil)

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 ADP 3-90 Offense and Defense
Through tactics, commanders use combat power to accomplish missions.

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CONTENTS
Tactics
Seize, retain, and exploit the initiative to gain and maintain a
Common Tactical position of relative advantage in sustained land operations in
Concepts and Echelons order to create the conditions for favorable conflict resolution
The Offense Executed through...
Decisive Action Movement and Maneuver
The Defense offensive
offensive defensive
defensive stability DSCA manuals
Tactical Enabling Tasks
Offensive tasks Defensive tasks
• Movement to contact • Area defense
- Search and attack • Mobile defense
- Cordon and search
• Retrograde operations
• Attack - Delay
- Ambush - Withdrawal
- Counterattack - Retirement
- Demonstration
- Spoiling attack
- Feint Forms of the defense
- Raid • Defense of a linear obstacle
• Perimeter defense
• Exploitation • Reverse slope defense
• Pursuit
Forms of maneuver
• Envelopment
• Flank attack
• Frontal attack
• Infiltration
• Penetration
• Turning movement
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Tactical enabling tasks
Tactical mission tasks

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 ADP 3-07 Stability
Through tactics, commanders use combat power to accomplish missions.
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Operations conducted outside the United States

CONTENTS
Stability Principles
Conducted by the United States military in joint operations using…
Stability in Unified Land
Operations
The role of Army forces as part of a joint operation is to conduct …
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Conducted Stability tasks are tasks con- Unified land operations

TASKS ducted as part of operations Primary stability Joint stability Stability End state
outside the United States in tasks functions sectors conditions
coordination with other instruments of national Establish civil Security Security Safe and secure
power to maintain or reestablish a safe and security environment
secure environment, and provide essential
Stability

governmental services, emergency infrastruc- Establish civil Rule of law Justice and Established rule
ture reconstruction, and humanitarian relief. control reconciliation of law
Defense

Restore essential Humanitarian Humanitarian

services assistance assistance and Social well-being
Offense

social well-being

Support to Governance and Governance and Stable

governance participation participation governance

Support to Economic Economic

Other documents: economic and stabilization stabilization Sustainable
infrastructure and and economy
• Briefing development infrastructure infrastructure

These operations must

Conflict Unity of Legitimacy and host- Building partner
be founded in the stability
transformation effort nation ownership capacity
principles of…

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 ADP 5-0 The Operations Process
Planning, preparing, executing, and assessing operations.

The Operations Process

CONTENTS

Definition and
Purpose The Army’s framework for exercising mission command is the operations process—the major
mission command activities performed during operations: planning, preparing, executing, and Download ADP
Principles of continuously assessing the operation.
the Operations
Process Plan Prepare
The art and science Those activities
Activities of the of understanding a performed by units and End state and
Operations situation, envisioning Soldiers to improve conditions
a desired future, and SS their ability to execute
Process
SE Elements of Center of gravity
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laying out e ffective an operation.
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AS
ways of bringing Download
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and lines of effort

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Operational reach
Commanders
Basing
Tempo
Phasing and
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Putting a plan into
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determination of the Culmination
action by applying S
combat power to ES progress toward Risk
accomplish the ASS accomplishing a
mission. task, creating an
effect, or achieving
an objective.

Central idea… Principles

Commanders, supported by their staffs, use • Commanders drive the operations process
the operations process to drive the conceptual guided by... • Apply critical and creative thinking
Other documents: and detailed planning necessary to understand, • Build and maintain situational understanding
• Briefing visualize, and describe their operational environ- • Encourage collaboration and dialogue
ment; make and articulate decisions; and direct,
lead, and assess military operations.

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 ADP 3-28 Defense Support of Civil Authorities
DSCA Logic map
CONTENTS National preparedness doctrine establishes The military’s contribution is
defense support of civil authorities.
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Army Support of Civil Authorities

to incident management
(DSCA)
Primary Purposes for Army Support

DSCA defined
Support provided by US Federal military forces, Department of De-
Primary Characterisitics of Army fense civilians, Department of Defense contract personnel, Department
of Defense component assets, and National Guard forces (when the
Support Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the governors of the affected
states, elects and requests to use those forces in Title 32, United States
Organization for Army Support Code, status) in response to requests for assistance from civil authorities Download
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Primary Tasks for Army Support activities, or from qualifying entities for special events. (DODD 3025.18)
National Incident Management
• Save lives
Support
Primary
• Alleviate suffering
Purposes • Protect property
National Response Framework
Catastrophic Disaster Response • State and federal laws define how
military forces support civil authorities.
• Civil authorities are in charge, and military
Primary forces support them.
Characteristics • Military forces depart when civil authorities
can continue without military support.
• Military forces must document costs of all
direct and indirect support provided.

State governors command

tiered, unified response

Army State forces

(National Guard in state active duty
Organization status or in Title 32 duty status)
President commands
Federal forces
Other documents: Primary Army (National Guard in Title 10 duty status,
Regular Army, and Army Reserve)
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• Provide support for domestic disasters.
• Provide support for domestic CBRN incidents.
• Provide support for domestic civilian law enforcement agencies.
• Provide other designated support.

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 ADP 6-0 Mission Command
MC LOGIC
Unified Land Operation
CONTENTS How the Army seizes, retains, and exploits the initiative to gain and maintain a position of
The Exercise of Mission relative advantage in sustained land operations through simultaneous offensive, defensive,
Command and stability operations in order to prevent or deter conflict, prevail in war, and create the
conditions for favorable conflict resolution.
The Mission Command One of the foundations is...
Philosophy of Command Mission Command manuals
Mission Command Philosophy
Nature of
The Mission Command Exercise of authority and direction by the commander
Operations
Warfighting Function using mission orders to enable disciplined initiative within
Military operations are the commander’s intent to empower agile and adaptive
human endeavors. leadersin the conduct of unified landoperations.

the Army exercises....

To account for this,
They are contests of Guided by the principles of...
wills characterized by
• Build cohesive teams through mutual trust
continuous and
• Create shared understanding
mutual adaptation by Download
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• Exercise disciplined initiative
Army forces conduct
• Use mission orders
operations in complex,
ever-changing, and • Accept prudent risk
uncertain operational The principles of mission command assist
environments. commanders and staff in blending the
art of command with the science of control.

Excecuted Mission Command Warfighting Function

through the... The related tasks and systems that develop and integrate those activities enabling a commander to balance
the art of command and the science of control in order to integrate the other warfighting functions.

A series of mutually Commander Tasks: Staff Tasks:

supported tasks... • Drive the operations process through the activities of Leads • Conduct the operations process (plan,
understand, visualize, describe, direct, lead, and assess prepare, execute, and assess)
• Develop teams, both within their own organizations and • Conduct knowledge management and
with unified action partners Supports information management
• Inform and influence audiences, inside and outside • Synchronize information-related capabilities
their organizations • Conduct cyber electromagnetic activities
Additional Tasks:
• Conduct military deception • Conduct airspace control • Conduct information protection
Other documents: • Conduct civil affairs operations • Install, operate, and maintain the network
• Briefing
Enabled by a Mission • Personnel Together, the mission command philosophy
system... Command • Information systems and warfighting function guide, integrate,
System: • Facilities and equipment
and synchronize Army forces throughout
• Networks
• Processes and procedures the conduct of unified land operations.

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 ADP 2-0 Intelligence
a product, a process, and a function

CONTENTS Joint Intelligence Unified Action

The Purpose of The product resulting from the collec- Central Idea: synchronization, coordination, and/or integration of the activities of government
tion, processing, integration, evaluation,
Intelligence analysis, and interpretation of available
and non-governmental entities with military operations to achieve unity of effort (JP 1)

information concerning foreign nations,

Intelligence in hostile or potentially hostile forces or
Unified Land elements, or areas of actual or potential Intelligence in Unified Land Operation
Operations operations. The term is also applied to
Intelligence manuals
the activity which results in the product Army intelligence efforts synchronize with unified action partners to achieve unity
Intelligence Support and to the organizations engaged in of effort and to accomplish the commander’s intent. Intelligence unity of effort is
such activity. critical to accomplish the mission. Intelligence reduces operational uncertainly--
to Commanders and
• As a function, intelligence is inherently By facilitating...
Decisionmakers joint, interagency, intergovernmental, Commanders’ and Decisionmakers’
The Intelligence
multinational.
Situational Understanding
• Unified action intelligence part- Executed through the
Warfighting Function ners provide cultural awareness,
perspectives, and capabilities that Intelligence Warfighting Function
reinforce and complement Army Download
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of the enemy, terrain, and civil considerations.
Tasks:
Intelligence Enterprise • Support to force generation.
• Support to situational understanding.
• Conduct information collection.
• Support to targeting and information capabilities.
Which leverages the... Guided by...
The Army conducts the Intelligence Enterprise
intelligence warfighting • Intelligence community. Mission
function through these
• Intelligence architecture. Command
• Intelligence professionals.
fundamental doctrinal
constructs To do this we must...
Basic activities and tasks used to A broad process for The basic “building blocks” that together constitute the intelligence effort
describe the intelligence warfighting supporting operations.
function and leverage the intelligence
enterprise. Intelligence Capabilities
• All-source intelligence • Complementary intelligence
Intelligence Process • Single-source intelligence capabilities
• Plan and direct • Intelligence disciplines - Biometrics-enabled
Other documents: • Collect - Counterintelligence intelligence
• Produce - Geospatial intelligence - Document and media
• Briefing Core Competencies • Disseminate
• Intelligence synchronization - Human intelligence exploitation
• Intelligecne operations • Analyze - Measurement and signature - Forensic-enabled intelligence
• Intelligence analysis • Assess intelligence • Processing, exploitation, and
- Open-source intelligence dissemination (PED)
- Signals intelligence
- Technical intelligence

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 ADP 3-09 Fires

use of weapons systems to create lethal or nonlethal effect on a target

Unified Action
Central Idea: synchronization, coordination, and/or integration of the activities of government

CONTENTS
Fires in Support of Unified Anticipated Operational and non-governmental entities with military operations to achieve unity of effort (JP 1)
Land Operations Environment
• US Fires must continue comple-
Fires in Support of mentary and interdependent
Offensive, Defensive forward presence in order to deter Unified Land Operation
regional and cross AOR threats. Seize, retain, and exploit the initiative to gain and Fires manuals
and Stability Tasks • US Fires must decide, detect, maintain a position of relative advantage in sus-
deliver, and assess targets early tained land operations in order to create the condi-
Air and Missile Defense enough to destroy, neutralize tions for favorable conflict resolution
or suppress potential threats, Fires executes through…
and create effects in support of
national and strategic objectives. Decisive Action
• Size of theater, non-linear nature
offensive defensive stability
of combat, omni-directional nature By means of...
of threats, and dispersal of critical
assets will require US Fires to Army Core Competencies Download
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Guided by... ADRP
Joint and Coalition fires and scal-
able capabilities within the area of
operations.
Mission Command

1. Fire in support of 2. Foundational Fires 3. Fires Execution

Unified Land Operations Principles

Fires Tasks Capabilities

Roles Characteristics • Deliver Fires • Army Indirect Fires
• Field Artillery • All Weather • Integrate all forms of Army, • Air and Missile Defense
• Air Defense Artillery • Precision/Near Joint, and Multi-national Fires • Early Warning and Sensors
Precision Fires • Conduct Targeting • Joint Fires including
Core Competencies • Area Fires Electronic Attack
• Fires in support of • Inherently Joint
Offensive, Defensive, • Air and Space
and Stability Tasks Integration
Integrate and synchronize weapon systems
Critical Capabilities Principles and sensors in order to achieve lethal and
• Precision
Other documents: • Target Acquisition
• Scalable non-lethal effects in support of Unified Land
• Target Discrimination
• Briefing • Target Engagement • Networked Operations and the maneuver commander
• Responsive
• Synchronized requirements and objectives

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 ADP 4-0 Sustainment
logistics, personnel services, and health service support
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Sustainment Environment
Unified Action
Warfighting • US must project power into Central idea: synchronization, coordination, and/or integration of the
Function region, opposed activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities with military
• US must seize at least one base operations to achieve unity of effort (JP1)
Principles of operations (maybe more)
• Threat of WMD will require Sustainment of Unified Action Sustainment manuals
Sustainment of dispersal of US forces and Joint Interdependence: The purposeful reliance by
Unified Land decentralized operations Service forces on another Service capabilities Principles
Operations • Size of theater (space and Integration
Anticipation
population) will exceed US abil- Unified Land Operation Responsiveness
Sustainment of ity to control Seize, retain, and exploit the initiative to gain and maintain a position Simplicity
Decisive Action of relative advantage in sustained land operations in order to create Economy
Sustainment of Unified Action the conditions for favorable conflict resolution Survivability
Operational Reach Sustainment is the provision of Continuity
Improvisation
logistics and personnel services
Freedom of Action necessary to maintain and pro- Decisive Action
Sustainment HQ cognitively Joint Doctrine
long operations until successful Strategic base link strategic capability with
Endurance mission completion. Sustain- leverages national
capabilities to Enabling CCDR tactical success ADP 4-0
ment in joint operations provides
Intrinsically linked

generate theater and ARFOR to conduct... Sustainment

the JFC flexibility, endurance, capabilities
and the ability to extend opera- Operational Freedom Prolonged
tional reach. (JP 4-0) reach of action endurance TSC ESC SB

AFSB FMC
Synchronizing strategic and operational support
occurs through mission command MEDCOM
HRSC
(DS)

Joint Interdependence Logistics Personnel Services Health Service Support

• Joint Deployment and Distribution • Maintenance • Human resource support • Casualty care
Enterprise (JDDE) • Transportation • Financial management -Organic and area medical
• Common User Logistics (CUL) • Supply operations support
• Army Support to Other Services • Field Services • Legal support -Hospitalization
(ASOS) • Distribution • Religious support -Dental treatment
Other documents: • Operational contract support • Band support -Behavioral health/
• Briefing • Generalengineering support neuropsychiatric treatment
-Clinical laboratory services
-Treatment of CBRNE patients
• Medical logistics
Sustainment Capabilities • Medical evacuation

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 ADP 3-37 Protection
Comprehensive, Integrated, Layered, Redundant, Enduring
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CONTENTS ADP ADRP

The Role of Protection

Protection Principles Protection Comprehensive

Protection Warfighting The preservation of the effectiveness and survivability Principles Integrated
Protection manuals
Function of mission-related military and nonmilitary personnel,
Layered
equipment, facilities, information, and infrastructure
Redundant
Protection Integration in
the Operations Process deployed or located within or outside the boundaries
Enduring
of a given operational area.

Executed through Combat Power
Leadership
Protection Warfighting Function
The related tasks and systems that preserve the Movement and Maneuver
force so the commander can apply maximum
combat power to accomplish the mission.
Protection Mission Intelligence
Identify and prevent or mitigate Command
threats and hazards through...

Operations Process
Plan | Prepare | Execute | Assess Sustainment Fires

Guided by... Information

Commanders
Protection as a continuing activity
Staffs
Leaders
Other documents: Soldiers
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 ADP 3-05 Special Operations
Special Operations
Unified Action and Unified Land Operation
Strategic Context

CONTENTS
Army Special Operations Download ADP
The Role of Army Special Operational Environment:
• Complex, ambiguous, Army special operations provide strategic options for ambassadors, geographic
Operations noncontiguous enviornment combatant commanders, and joint task force commanders in the form of a surgical
• Rapidly evolving situations strike capability and a special warfare capability. Army special operations not only
Critical Capabilities • Geopolitical sensitivites can assess, shape, and influence foreign political environments, they provide a
• Whole of government approach unilateral ability to influence threats and adversaries favorable to U.S. interests.
Special Operations

we provide...
Core Principles • Constrained resource

To cope with these…

Executed through… Manuals
• Cyber and social media erode
Regional Mechanisms geographical boundaries Critical Capabilities
• Coalition warfare Special Warfare Surgical Strike
• Irregular threat By means of...
Characteristics
Stratgic Challenges: Special Operations Principles
Imperatives • Transnational VEO networks Discreat, Precise and Scalable Operations
• Disregard for international norms
Guided by...
• State instability
• WMD proliferation Special Operations Regional Mechanisms Download
• Proliferation of advanced
Assessment Shape Active Deterrence Influence Disruption ADRP
technologies

to do this...
we must...

Organize effort within a commonly understood construct

Develop special operations Cognitively link
exemplified by the Army tactical actions to
Tenets: flexibility, inegration, strategic objectives
lethality, adaptability, depth,
Operations Structure
and synchronization Provide a broad Provide basic options Provide intellectual
process for conducting for visualizing and organization for common
operations describing operations critical tasks

Operational Operations Operational Warfighting Function

Characteristics Art Process Framework Mission Command
The pursuit of strategic Plan Decisive-Shaping- Movement and Maneuver
Mission Criteria Sustaining Intelligence
Other documents: objectives, in whole Prepare
Deep-Close-Security
or in part, through the Execute Fires
• Briefing arrangement of tactical Assess Main and Supporting Sustainment
Imperatives
actions in time, space, Efforts Protection
Find, Fix, Finish,
and purpose Right Partner, Right
Exploit, and Analyze Special Operations
Location, Right Capability

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 Organization of the Army

Army
Regular Army
National
Army Reserve
Guard

Brigades
Operating Theater and Brigade Combat Teams
Corps and Divisions
Force Theater Level Units Support Brigades
Functional Brigades

Generating Accessions Human resource management Organic industrial facilities

Training Medical support and health sustainment Laboratories and research centers
Force Schools and Centers Civil engineer and infrastructure support Hospitals and clinics
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Doctrine development Acquisition and procurement activities Corps of Engineers districts

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 FM 3-94
Organization of the Army Theater

Theater and Theater Level Units

Army,
Corps,
and Division
Operations

Theater Army Army Service Component Commands

United States Army Central United States Army South

Shaw Air Force Base, SC Fort Sam Houston, TX Military Surface Deployment
and Distribution Command
USARCENT is the assigned Army Service USARSO is the assigned Army Service Scott AFB, IL
Component Command (ASCC) to the United Component Command (ASCC) to the United
States Central Command (USCENTCOM) and States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM)
provides continuous oversight and control of and provides continuous oversight and
Army operations throughout the USCENTCOM control of Army operations throughout the
Area of Responsibility (AOR). USSOUTHCOM Area of Responsibility (AOR). U.S. Army Space and
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Missile Defense CMD/

United States Army Europe United States Army Pacific Army Forces Strategic CMD
Wiesbaden, Germany Fort Shafter, HI Huntsville, AL
USAREUR is the Army Service Component USARPAC is the assigned Army Service
Command (ASCC) assigned to the United States Component CMD (ASCC) to the United
European Command (USEUCOM) and provides States Pacific CMD USPACOM and provides
continuous oversight and control of Army operations continuous oversight and control of army
throughout the EUCOM Area of Responsibility (AOR). operations throughout the USPACOM Area of
United States Army Special
Responsibility (AOR) less the Korean Peninsula. Operations Command
Fort Bragg, N.C.
United States Army North United States Army Africa
Fort Sam Houston, TX Vicenza, Italy
United States Army Africa, as the Army Service
USARNORTH is the assigned Army Service Component Command for U.S. Africa Command,
Component Command (ASCC) to the United enables full-spectrum operations while conducting
United States Army
States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) sustained security engagement with African land Cyber Command
and provides continuous oversight and control of forces to promote security, stability and peace. As Fort Meade, MD
Army operations throughout the USNORTHCOM directed, deploys a contingency headquarters in
Area of Responsibility (AOR). support of crisis response.

Theater Level Units

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Corps and Divisions

Theater
Army,
Corps,
and Division
Operations

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Corps
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ABN Corps

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Active Divisions

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National Guard Divisions

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Brigades
Brigade Combat Teams

Infantry BCT Stryker BCT Armored BCT

Support Brigades
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SUST

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Aviation Fires Maneuver Enhancement Sustainment

Functional Brigades
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MP
MI MP
CID
Chemical, Biological, Engineer Military Intelligence Military Police Military Police/Criminal
Air Defense
Radiological, and Nuclear Investigation Division

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AFSB CSB EOD RSG TAVN
Army Field Support Contracting Support Signal Explosive Ordnance Medical Regional Support Theater Aviation
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Support Brigades

Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB)

Typically

Assigned

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• CABs support the operations of a joint force land component, corps, division, or a supported BCT.
• Containing both manned and unmanned systems, the CAB is tailorable to the mission and can
support multiple BCTs.
• The CAB may be configured as heavy, medium, or light in accordance with the numbers and
types of assigned aircraft.
• The CAB typically conducts the following missions: reconnaissance, security, attack, air assault,
air movement, command and control (C2) support, aeromedical evacuation, personnel recovery,
and downed aircraft recovery.

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Fires Brigade

Organic As required

• Fires brigades are normally assigned, attached, or OPCON to a division. However, they may be
OPCON to a task force, land component command, or other Service.
• Fires brigade organic assets include a multiple launch rocket system battalion, headquarters

battery, and target acquisition (TA) battery.

Fires brigades perform the following tasks:
• Conduct strike operations.
• Support BCTs and other brigades.
• Conduct joint missions separate from the division.
• Conduct fire support missions for the division and brigades.

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Maneuver Enhancement Brigade (MEB)

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Organic Assigned OPCON

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• The MEB commands and controls forces that provide protection and other support to the force.
• These brigades are designed to control: engineers; military police; chemical, biological,
radiological, and nuclear (CBRN); civil affairs, air and missile defense (AMD); explosive ordnance
disposal (EOD); and a tactical combat force (TCF).
• Typical missions include: area security operations; construct, maintain, and sustain lines
of communications; provide mobility and countermobility support; vertical, runway, and road
construction; CBRN defense; limited offensive and defensive tasks; some stability tasks, and
consequence management operations.
• The MEB is not designed to screen, guard, or cover.

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Sustainment Brigade
Organic As required
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• Sustainment brigades normally have a command relationship with a theater sustainment

command and provide general or direct support to divisions and brigades.
• The higher headquarters usually reinforces the sustainment brigade with several different
modular sustainment elements as required.
• A sustainment brigade’s only organic unit is its brigade troops battalion (BTB). This
battalion provides command and control for assigned and attached personnel and units. It
directs sustainment operations for the brigade headquarters.
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Generating Force Organizations

Title 10 Functions
Secretary of the Army (SECARMY) Resource Managing
Army Commands (ACOMS)
• Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Organizing, Training
• U.S. Army Materiel Command (USAMC) Supplying, Maintaining
• U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM)
Direct Reporting Units
• U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM)
• U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) Servicing
• U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM)
• U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (CIDC)
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Construction Engineering
• U.S. Army Military District of Washington (MDW)
• U.S. Army Testing and Evaluaiton Command (ATEC) Equipping
• U.S. Military Academy (USMA)
• U.S. Army Reserve Command (USARC) Mobilizing & Demobilizing
• U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center (ACQ SPT CTR)
• U.S. Army Installation Management Command (IMCOM) Mobilizing & Demobilizing,
Administering
Other
• Human Resources Command (HRC) Servicing
• Combined Arms Center (CAC) Training
• National Guard Bureau (NGB) Mobilizing & Demobilizing
• Army and Air Force Exchange System (AAFES) Administering
• Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Command Administering

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National Security National Defense
The U.S. National Military Strategy
Strategy Strategy
Constitution (Chairman, JCS)
(President and NSC) (SecDef, DoD)

Protect the United States against

external attacks and aggression
Prevent conflict and surprise attack
Prevail against adversaries

JDEIS
CJCSI Joint Doctrine Education DoDD
and Training Electronic
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Department of Defense
Information System
of Staff Instruction Directives

Navy Marine Corps Air Force Coast Guard

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