This publication, Army Techniques Publication ATP 3-21.21 SBCT Infantry Battalion March 2016, provides doctrinal framework for techniques for the Stryker brigade combat team (SBCT) Infantry battalion. This ATP provides employment of the SBCT Infantry battalion in decisive action. This publication provides doctrinal guidance for commanders, staff, and leaders who are responsible for planning, preparing, executing, and assessing operations of the SBCT Infantry battalion. This publication serves as an authoritative reference for personnel developing, materiel and force structure, institutional and unit training, and standard operating procedures (SOP) for SBCT Infantry battalion operations. ATP 3-21.21 discusses the techniques used by the Infantry battalion while conducting missions. These are techniques and are not prescriptive. Mission, enemy, terrain and weather, troops and support available, time available, and civil considerations (METT-TC) condition will dictate how the battalion commander accomplishes his tasks. This manual provides the commander and his subordinates with an array of methods that can be used or modified. ATP 3-21.21 has nine chapters and one appendix. The chapters consist of an organizational chapter and a chapter on offense, defense, and stability operations. Defense support to civilian authorities and defense support of civil authority (DSCA) is not covered. Throughout the chapters, tactical enabling operations are included in the discussions. The chapters and the appendix use examples and illustrations to show techniques that can be used. Doctrine is included only to the extent of understanding the context and relationships between techniques.
This United States Army Infantry manual, Army Techniques Publication ATP 3-21.11 Stryker Brigade Combat Team Infantry Rifle Company November 2020, provides doctrinal framework for techniques for the Stryker brigade combat team (SBCT) Infantry rifle company within the SBCT Infantry battalion. This publication describes relationships, organizational roles and functions, capabilities and limitations, and responsibilities within the SBCT Infantry rifle company. Techniques, non-prescriptive ways or methods used to perform missions, functions, or tasks (CJCSM 5120.01A) are discussed in this publication and are intended to be used as a guide. They are not prescriptive. This Army techniques publication provides doctrinal guidance for commanders, staff, and leaders who are responsible for planning, preparing, executing, and assessing operations of the SBCT Infantry rifle company. It serves as an authoritative reference for personnel developing, materiel and force structure, institutional and unit training, and standard operating procedures for SBCT Infantry rifle company operations. This Army techniques publication supplements the doctrinal material found in FM 3-96. ATP 3-21.11 uses joint terms where applicable. Selected joint and Army terms and definitions appear in both the glossary and the text. Terms and definitions for which ATP 3-21.11 is the proponent publication (the authority) are boldfaced in the text and are marked with an asterisk (*) in the glossary. For definitions shown in the text, the term is italicized and the number of the proponent publication follows the definition. ATP 3-21.11 applies to the Active Army, the Army National Guard/Army National Guard of the United States, and the United States Army Reserve unless otherwise stated.
Field Manual (FM) 3-19.50 is a new manual for the Military Police Corps in conducting police intelligence operations (PIO). It describes the doctrine relating to: * The fundamentals of PIO; * The legal documents and considerations affiliated with PIO; * The PIO process; * The relationship of PIO to the Army's intelligence process; * The introduction of police and prison structures, organized crime, legal systems, investigations, crime conducive conditions, and enforcement mechanisms and gaps (POLICE)-a tool to assess the criminal dimension and its influence on effects-based operations (EBO); * PIO in urban operations (UO) and on installations; and * The establishment of PIO networks and associated forums and fusion cells to affect gathering police information and criminal intelligence (CRIMINT).
This monumental study provides an innovative and powerful means for understanding institutions by applying problem solving theory to the creation and elaboration of formal organizational rules and procedures. Based on a meticulously researched historical analysis of the U.S. Navys officer personnel system from its beginnings to 1941, the book is informed by developments in cognitive psychology, cognitive science, operations research, and management science. It also offers important insights into the development of the American administrative state, highlighting broader societal conflicts over equity, efficiency, and economy. Considering the Navys personnel system as an institution, the book shows that changes in that system resulted from a long-term process of institutional design, in which formal rules and procedures are established and elaborated. Institutional design is here understood as a problem-solving process comprising day-to-day efforts of many decision makers to resolve the difficulties that block completion of their tasks. The officer personnel system is treated as a problem of organized complexity, with many components interacting in systematic, intricate ways, its structure usually imperfectly understood by the participants. Consequently, much problem solving entails decomposing the larger problem into smaller, more manageable components, closing open constraints, and balancing competing value premises. The author finds that decision makers are unlikely to generate many alternatives, since searching for existing solutions elsewhere or inventing new ones is an expensive, difficult enterprise. Choice is usually a matter of accepting, rejecting, or modifying a single solution. Because time constraints force decisions before problems are well structured, errors are frequently made, problem components are at best only partially addressed, and the chosen solution may not solve the problem at all and even if it does is likely to generate unanticipated side-effects that worsen other problem components. In its definitive treatment of a critical but hitherto entirely unresearched dimension of the administration of the U.S. Navy, the book provides full details over time concerning the elaboration of officer grades and titles, creation of promotion by selection, sea duty requirements, graded retirement, staff-line conflicts, the establishment of the Reserve, and such unusual subjects as tombstone promotions. In the process, it transcends the specifics of the personnel system to give a broad picture of the Navys history over the first century and a half of its development.
This publication, Army Techniques Publication ATP 3-21.11 SBCT Infantry Rifle Company February 2016, discusses the techniques used by the Infantry rifle company while conducting missions. These are techniques and are not prescriptive. Mission, enemy, terrain and weather, troops and support available, time available, and civil considerations (METT-TC) condition will dictate how the company commander accomplishes his tasks. This manual provides the commander and his subordinates with an array of methods that can be used or modified. ATP 3-21.11 has eight chapters and one appendix. The chapters consist of an organizational chapter and a chapter on offense, defense, and stability operations. Throughout the chapters, tactical enabling operations are included in the discussions. The chapters and the appendix use examples and illustrations to show techniques that can be used. Doctrine is included only to the extent of understanding the context and relationships between techniques. This manual incorporates the significant changes in Army doctrinal terminology, concepts, constructs, and proven tactics developed during recent operations. Chapter 1 - Organization addresses the organizational characteristics of the SBCT Infantry rifle company as optimized and trained to conduct offensive and defensive tasks, and operations in support of stability to function across the range of military operations. Chapter 1 describes the organization and mission of the company, each of its subordinate elements as well as the duties and responsibilities of its key leaders. Chapter 2 - Offense discusses offensive actions to destroy, defeat, or neutralize the enemy. The chapter addresses the characteristics of a SBCT Infantry rifle company offense and describes the movement to contact, attack tasks, and considerations when participating in exploitation, and pursuit. Chapter 3 - Defense discusses defensive actions to defeat enemy attacks, buy time, control key terrain, protect critical infrastructure, secure the population, and economize forces. The chapter addresses SBCT Infantry rifle company defense characteristics and describes the three defensive tasks: area defense, mobile defense, and retrograde. Chapter 4 - Stability addresses support to operations focused on stability tasks. This chapter encompasses various military missions, tasks, and activities conducted outside the United States in coordination with other instruments of national power. Chapter 5 - Sustainment discusses the process for combat trains that the SBCT Infantry rifle company use to anticipate their needs. Discusses the placement of key sustainment personnel at locations throughout the SBCT footprint. Chapter 6 - Augmenting Combat Power provides techniques for the integration and synchronization of warfighting functions as enablers to enhance the conduct of operations, Chapter 6 includes discussions on- Fires. Protection. Aviation. Military information support operations (MISO). Special operation forces (SOF). Civil affairs. Chapter 7 - Enabling Operations provides the enabling tasks and activities into one chapter. It includes details in the supporting tasks that occur before, during, and after decisive action. Chapter 7 also addresses the following- Assembly areas. Reconnaissance. Security. Patrols. Relief in place. Passage of lines. Linkup. Combined arms breaching and gap. Troop movement. Chapter 8 - Direct Fire Planning and Control provides guidance for planning and integration of the direct fire weapon systems used by the Stryker Infantry rifle company to engage targets. Provides techniques for weapon employment, rates and patterns of fire. Appendix A - Breaching Using MGS gives detail information on how the Stryker Infantry rifle company breaches structures using the mobile gun system (MGS). This technique requires the Infantry and MGS working in direct coordination with one another to accomplish their common goal.
Army Techniques Publication ATP 3-21.8 Change 1 August 2016 encompasses techniques for the Infantry platoons and squads of the Infantry, Stryker, and Armored brigade combat teams (I, S, and ABCTs). It replaces Field Manual (FM) 3-21.8, published in March 2007, Army Tactics Techniques, and Procedures (ATTP) 3-21.71, published in November 2010, and ATTP 3-21.9, published in December 2010. ATP 3-21.8 provides doctrinal guidance; describes relationships within the platoon and squad; defines organizational roles and functions, capabilities, limitations; and lay outs the responsibilities for platoons and squads during unified land operations. The Infantry platoon and squad is an all-weather, all-terrain unit. Against this backdrop, the Infantry platoon and squad must be ready to adapt to various levels of conflict and peace in various environments. This requires bold, aggressive, resourceful, and adaptive leaders- leaders of character, competence and commitment - who are willing to accept known risks to accomplish the mission. Infantry leaders must use their initiative and make rapid decisions to take advantage of unexpected opportunities.
This volume will help the reader understand fundamental strengths and weaknesses in America's military forces, thereby leading to a comprehension of what genuine military reform is, and is not, and what remains to be done. Ideas will be presented to compare genuine reform to cosmetic dabbling, which fundamentally improves nothing and which sometimes arrives as ill-conceived fads that promise only to burden US combat forces to the point of mental and physical immobility. The work will trace the history of various attempts to impose military reform on American armed forces, especially from Congress, starting during the American Revolution and Continental Congress up through the present day. Particular focus will be placed on the effort of a small group in Congress and the Pentagon in the 1980s (who coined the term military reform in the modern context). Emphasis will be on the reforms these actors advocated, variously successful and unsuccessful, to fundamentally alter how the Department of Defense designs and buys hardware and how our armed forces fight. The book will use Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom (and the subsequent insurgency in Iraq) to demonstrate what has been reformed in US armed forces and the Department of Defense, and what has not.
Army Techniques Publication ATP 3-21.91 (FM 3-21.91, ) Stryker Brigade Combat Team Weapons Troop May 2017 Army technique publication (ATP) 3-21.91 describes how the Stryker brigade combat team (SBCT) weapons troop and its platoons fight. This publication provides doctrine for employing the SBCT weapons troop and its platoons. It contains guidance on techniques weapons troops and its platoons use in offensive, defensive, and stability tasks. The target audience includes leaders in the SBCT weapons troop, SBCT battalion and brigade level commanders, and staff officers. This publication reflects and supports the Army doctrine found in Field Manual (FM) 3-96 and serves as an authoritative reference for personnel who- Develop doctrine (fundamental principles and tactics, techniques, and procedures [TTP] materiel, and force structure). Develop institution and unit training. Develop unit tactical standard operating procedures for SBCT antiarmor operations. This ATP replaces FM 3-21.91. FM 3-21.91 discussed three organizations: weapons companies in airborne and air assault battalions, antiarmor companies in SBCTs, and antitank guided missile (ATGM) platoons in light Infantry battalions. This ATP only discusses the weapons troops in SBCTs. All reference to antiarmor use of M2 machine guns and M19 grenade launchers were removed as they are not organic weapons of an SBCT weapons troop. This ATP updates company organization and equipment, Stryker unit symbols, and information on current and future weapon systems. This ATP includes updates to support Doctrine 2015
