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AirLand Battle

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AirLand Battle was the overall conceptual framework behind the US Army's European warfighting doctrine from 1982 into the late 1990s, first published in the 1982 edition of Field Manual 100-5. It called for deep, simultaneous attack against an enemy's follow-on echelons, together with the close battle at the front line, to defeat a numerically superior Warsaw Pact attacker before its full strength could reach the front. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Deep, simultaneous attack against an enemy's follow-on echelons, together with the close battle, defeats a numerically superior attacker before its full strength ever reaches the front. 1
Origin Year
1982 1
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Domain (Land, Sea, Air, Cyber)
Land 1
Domain (Land, Sea, Air, Cyber)
Air 1
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  • lead paragraph
    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.
  • history section
    AirLand Battle was first promulgated in the 1982 version of FM 100-5.
  • Explicitly a combined land and air doctrine, per the entity's own sourced description.
  • Developed By: United States Army, article text
    AirLand Battle was first promulgated in the 1982 version of FM 100-5, and revised for the FM 100-5 version of 1986.
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