Everything about Airland Battle totally explained
AirLand Battle was first adopted by the
US Army in
1982 as Field Manual 100-5, and drove
military doctrine until the late 1990s. The AirLand Battle doctrine describes a combined Air and Land force, with emphasis on inter-service cooperation. The emphasis of the AirLand Battle warfare was to counter the
Warsaw Pact's numerical superiority with better tactics, with the
Central European theater in mind. This represented a significant change of position from the Army's 1976 "Active Defense" doctrine which prescribed purely defensive tactics in response to a Soviet attack on Western Europe. AirLand Battle instead advocated a vigorously offensive response to the invading force.
AirLand Battle doctrine aims to stop
second-echelon forces from reinforcing the enemy, by attacking these forces at
choke points. The land components fight the
first-echelon enemies, and the air units attack the second-echelon forces behind the lines. The enemy is attacked at choke points, because its location is otherwise unpredictable due to his maneuvers. Natural choke points would be bridges and tunnels. In the event of Soviet attack, these choke points could be as far as 150km behind the first-echelon lines.
As an example, during the
Gulf War, the road to
Basra was turned into a choke point by bombing both ends of the convoys first (thus creating the
Highway of Death).
Today, the Pentagon embraces a new doctrine:
Network-centric warfare, made possible by the
Digital Revolution.
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