DoctrineBritish ArmyIraqOver the past decade, Western military doctrines concerned with matters of irregular warfare and counterinsurgency have emphasised the requirement for properly understanding' the social, political and cultural environments in which those militaries may operate; the so-called human and...
"Our design concept was selected to provide Soldiers the comfort, connectivity, survivability, lethality and growth potential necessary to adapt to the fluid conditions of a contemporary battlefield and address the spectrum of operations from hybrid/irregular warfare to conventional warfare," Kotchman ...
machine guns, rapid-fire guns and individual riflemen had forced a development away from chains of riflemen spread out abreast, towards an irregular distribution of soldiers in the terrain. Spreading
airborne/ranger battalions, one strike force company of Nonmalignant irregulars and their Special Forces advisors, and four battalions of US infantry personnel were committed to close with and capture or destroy the enemy. During this operational period (4-6 March), the task force, supported by ...
The lexicon for irregular warfare (IW) can be confusing. Consider what doctrine has called...Clark, Chadwick WArmy Magazine
Tactical warfareMilitary technologyForce structure planningUntil this century, United States military doctrine was implied rather than set dawn, irregular and pragmatic as circumstances dictated. All this changed after Vietnam, But how was that change effected in an atmosphere of destroyed credibility and...
in fact, large numbers of Iraqi troops simply chose not to resist the advance of coalition forces. In southern Iraq the greatest resistance to U.S. forces as they advanced northward was from irregular groups of Baʿath Party supporters, known asSaddam’s Fedayeen. British forces—which had ...