AirLand Battle

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AirLand Battle was a U.S. Army operational doctrine developed during the late Cold War that emphasized integrated, deep, and simultaneous attacks across the battlefield using close coordination between land and air forces.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf U.S. Army doctrine
military doctrine
appliesTo U.S. Air Force NERFINISHED
U.S. Army NERFINISHED
associatedWith General Donn A. Starry NERFINISHED
General William E. DePuy NERFINISHED
TRADOC Pamphlets on operations
codifiedBy U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command NERFINISHED
codifiedIn Field Manual 100-5 NERFINISHED
conflictContext Cold War NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
developmentPeriod late Cold War
doctrinalDomain land warfare
doctrinalLevel operational level of war
emphasizes agility
deep operations
depth
initiative
integration of air and land forces
maneuver warfare
simultaneous attacks
synchronization
focusesOn attacking enemy follow-on forces
defeating second-echelon forces
nonlinear battlefield
influenced AirLand Battle-Future NERFINISHED
Full Spectrum Operations
U.S. joint doctrine
influencedBy NATO Follow-On Forces Attack concept NERFINISHED
lessons from Vietnam War
lessons from Yom Kippur War
introducedInDoctrine 1982
objective disrupt enemy operational cohesion
fight outnumbered and win
seize and retain the initiative
primaryAdversary Soviet Union NERFINISHED
primaryTheater Central Europe NERFINISHED
replaced Active Defense NERFINISHED
replacedBy Full Spectrum Operations NERFINISHED
requires advanced command and control
close air-ground coordination
intelligence preparation of the battlefield
joint operations
precision fires
updatedInDoctrine 1986
usesConcept close battle
deep battle
rear operations

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