AirLand Battle was first adopted by the US Army in 1982 as Field Manual 100-5, and drove military doctrine until the late 1990s. The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Military doctrine is the concise expression of how military forces contribute to campaigns major operations Battles and engagements It is a guide The AirLand Battle doctrine describes a combined Air and Land force, with emphasis on inter-service cooperation. The emphasis of the AirLand Battle warfare was to counter the Warsaw Pact's numerical superiority with better tactics, with the Central European theater in mind. The Warsaw Pact (see Nomenclature) was an organization of Communist states in Central and Eastern Europe. This represented a significant change of position from the Army's 1976 "Active Defense" doctrine which prescribed purely defensive tactics in response to a Soviet attack on Western Europe. AirLand Battle instead advocated a vigorously offensive response to the invading force.
AirLand Battle doctrine aims to stop second-echelon forces from reinforcing the enemy, by attacking these forces at choke points. Deep operations was a military doctrine developed by the Soviet Union for its armed forces during the 1920s and 1930s In military strategy a choke point (or chokepoint) is a geographical feature on land such as a valley or defile, or at sea such as a Strait which an armed The land components fight the first-echelon enemies, and the air units attack the second-echelon forces behind the lines. Deep operations was a military doctrine developed by the Soviet Union for its armed forces during the 1920s and 1930s The enemy is attacked at choke points, because its location is otherwise unpredictable due to his maneuvers. Natural choke points would be bridges and tunnels. In the event of Soviet attack, these choke points could be as far as 150km behind the first-echelon lines.
As an example, during the Gulf War, the road to Basra was turned into a choke point by bombing both ends of the convoys first (thus creating the Highway of Death). Basra ( BGN: AlBasrah also called Basorah Abillah and Uruk or IRAQ The name that British colony has adopted for Basra The Highway of Death refers to a road between Kuwait and Basra on which retreating units of the Iraqi army and Palestinian militiamen were
Today, the Pentagon embraces a new doctrine: Network-centric warfare, made possible by the Digital Revolution. Network-centric warfare (NCW, now commonly called network-centric operations (NCO, is a new Military doctrine or theory of war pioneered by the United States This article presents a Timeline of events in the history of Computing from 1990 to the present
External links
- Field Manual 100-5 PDF
- The Evolution of the Airland Battle Concept Air University Review, 1984
- Partnership and Tension: The Army and Air Force Between Vietnam and Desert Shield PARAMETERS, Spring 1996
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