Field Manual 100-5 (FM100-5) is a serial publication of the
US Army
The United States Army (USA) is the primary land service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution.Article II, section 2, clause 1 of the United Stat ...
. In 1997, the 1986 edition was termed "the primary tool for the self-education and professional development required to achieve tactical competence."
In 1939 it was said to contain the principles of troop leading and combat of the combined arms in maneuver warfare and constitutes the basis of instruction of all arms and services for field service.
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History
FM100-5 was published on 1 October 1939 by newly-hired Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall
George Catlett Marshall Jr. (31 December 1880 – 16 October 1959) was an American army officer and statesman. He rose through the United States Army to become Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army under presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. ...
.Blitzkrieg
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of General Guderian
Heinz Wilhelm Guderian (; 17 June 1888 – 14 May 1954) was a German general during World War II who later became a successful memoirist. A pioneer and advocate of the "blitzkrieg" approach, he played a central role in the development of ...
had been digested.William DePuy
William Eugene DePuy (1 October 1919 – 9 September 1992) was a United States Army general and the first commander of the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command. He is widely regarded as one of the principal architects of the restructu ...
signed off on the 1976 edition.Yom Kippur War
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. He promoted an attrition-based doctrine called "Active Defense
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".[. Master's thesis.] The 1976 edition of FM100-5 was the inaugural publication of the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
The United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) is a major command of the United States Army headquartered at Fort Eustis, Virginia. It is charged with overseeing training of Army forces and the development of operational doctrine ...
.AirLand Battle
AirLand Battle was the overall conceptual framework that formed the basis of the US Army's European warfighting doctrine from 1982 into the late 1990s. AirLand Battle emphasized close coordination between land forces acting as an aggressively ...
was first promulgated in the 1982 version of FM 100-5,FM 100-5: Operations, 1982
/ref> and revised the FM 100-5 version of 1986.Soviet
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threat and moved on.
See also
* List of United States Army Field Manuals
This list of United States Army Field Manuals contains information about a variety of United States Army Field Manuals.
Abbreviations and Keys
* ADP # means Army Doctrine Publication No. #;
* FM # means Field Manual No. #;
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References
Bibliography
* {{cite thesis , last=Blythe , first=Wilson C. , date=March 2010 , url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1119406.pdf , title=AirLand Battle: The Development of a Doctrine , type=Masters , publisher=Eastern Michigan University, archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230129114749/https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1119406.pdf, archive-date= January 29, 2023
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