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Army Doctrine Update

... why I commend the attached document -- the Army Doctrine Update that was sent out just prior to the release of Army Field Manual 3-0 ... misuse terminology associated or otherwise related to the FM. I haven't seen something like this before and hopefully it will put to bed ...

Blog entry - Mar 8 2008 - 3:44pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

FM 3-0 Update

Author(s):  SWJ Editors Teaser:  Via Michael Gordon of the New York Times - After Hard-Won Lesson ...

Blog entry - Feb 8 2008 - 10:01am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

DoD’s Combat Exclusion Policies Limit Commanders and Strain Our Current Forces

... question, though. Why bring this up now? 1. FM 3-24 is in the process of being revised. Unless we want to reinvent the ... she was in a time warp. She thought she had dropped back 30 years in time to when this debate raged in Norway. It is a mote point today. ...

Journal Article - Nov 20 2011 - 7:34am - 46 comments

The Targeting Process: D3A and F3EAD

... Question for others, The new Targeting Process manual, FM 3-60 came out in November 2010 and still places primacy in D3A. It has an ... LE that has to handle in major combat operation scenarios 30-50 targets per hour 24 X 7. Where the LE has assisted in the Army side ...

Journal Article - Jul 16 2011 - 7:50am - 57 comments

To Design or Not to Design (Part Five)

... not confine the definition of Design to 15 pages in an FM which is not exclusively focused upon design. "Instead, military ... in practice? In my limited experience, Design gets about 30 minutes at the start of any planning process, and the remainder of a 5 or 8 ...

Journal Article - Apr 15 2011 - 4:58am - 35 comments

Does The United States Still Need USSOCOM? (Updated)

... Maritime (Piracy), piracy could be defeated in less than 30 days, the problem is not the execution of the mission but where those ECs ... IW symposium, Dr. Conrad Crane, one of the authors of FM 3-24, mentioned that the SOF community made little contribution to drafting ...

Journal Article - Dec 13 2009 - 10:25am - 77 comments

COIN Metrics: What Not to Measure

... American operations in Afghanistan. It is time for FM 3-24 to be deconstructed and put back together in a similar way as the ... Put up a powerpoint slide in your next Commander's Update that asks and answers the following quesitons: 1. Is the government ...

Blog entry - Feb 8 2010 - 1:36pm - 79 comments - 0 attachments

Prine on Abrams and Primary Sources

... you did that, just that it is common today where it wasn't 30 plus years ago. It's also not always wrong but it is different... Re: ... What is interesting is that current Army doctrine (revised FM 3) calls for "commander's understanding" as a key cognitive event in the now ...

Blog entry - Jul 1 2011 - 5:06pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

Military Review: March - April 2008 Issue

... Arms Center web site. Ton of good stuff, enjoy. FM 3-0 Operations—The Army's Blueprint by General William S. Wallace, ... of Defense for Business Transformation. A good news update concerning efforts to modernize Iraq's economy. Human Terrain ...

Blog entry - Feb 26 2008 - 7:27pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Irregular Warfare on the Korean Peninsula

... scenario in North Korea will be handled with an FM 3-24-like approach? Yes, the Koreans may not be able to execute as we do ... question is why have we in fact ignored Korea for the last 30 years and just now seem to be rediscovering it? Re: Irregular Warfare on ...

Journal Article - Nov 30 2010 - 7:17pm - 54 comments