AirLand Operations, Multiagency Indirect Operations, and the CLOSE, DEEP, and REAR ARENAS: Are They Related.

摘要

This monograph examines the dimensions of time and space for military operations and the process for synchronization. The specific military operations addressed are: linear warfighting as described in FM 100-5, 'Operations,' May 1986; Counterinsurgency as described in FM 100-20/AFPam 3-20, 'Military Operations in Low Intensity Conflict,' January 1990; and nonlinear warfighting as described in TRADOC Pamphlet 525-5B (Draft), 'AirLand Operations: The Evolution of AirLand Battle for a Strategic Army,' 26 March 1991. This study is motivated by the challenges of synchronizing different types of operations at the operational level. The study seeks to determine if a relationship exists between the different operations in the process of arranging activities over time in space. The study begins with an analysis of current AirLand Battle doctrine as typical, modern linear warfare. The arenas of operations in current doctrine, Close, Deep, and Rear, are determined to be compressed in time at specific points of maximum combat power concentration. This analysis of purpose over time in space provides the basis for comparison with Counterinsurgency (COIN) and nonlinear warfighting. The doctrine for COIN describes dimensions for operations that are inverted from warfighting with time relatively long and minimum combat power concentrated over a wide area.