4 It can describe any written manual of guidance for any size force in either a training or combat environment. The term doctrine may be the most overused in the military lexicon. While definitions of operational art appear in self-described doctrinal manuals, do they describe, in fact, a doctrine of operational art? Can one prescribe art in doctrine? These questions lie at the heart of the contest engendered by the dual measures changing the Army doctrinal definition of operational art and dropping the operational level of war, both within a joint philosophical and doctrinal composition that retains that level. Marines with Battalion Landing Team, 1 st Battalion, 6 th Marine Regiment, 22 nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, convoy light-armored vehicles across beach as Navy landing craft, air cushion with Assault Craft Unit 4, departs beach of Sierra del Retin, Spain, during Spanish Amphibious Bilateral Exercise 2014, Febru(U.S. This article is not specifically about whether there should or should not be an operational level of war rather, it is concerned with the concept of “doctrine” and its relationship to history and theory in the context of an operational art.
2 In contrast to ADP 3-0, however, Army Doctrine Reference Publication 3-0, Unified Land Operations, emphasizes the joint definition, acknowledging an operational level: “Operational art is applicable at all levels of war, not just to the operational level of war.” 3 Thus, a contested delineation of operational art entered the cognitive space of schools and commands throughout the Army. Army broke with both its prior doctrinal paradigm of an operational level of war and the joint model in Joint Publication (JP) 3-0, Joint Operations, of the three levels of war. Pity the theory that conflicts with reason!Īccording to Army Doctrine Publication (ADP) 3-0, Unified Land Operations, “Operational art is the pursuit of strategic objectives, in whole or in part, through the arrangement of tactical actions in time, space, and purpose.” 1 With this definition, the U.S. Marine Corps Infantry Officer and served as the first Chief of Florida Domestic (Homeland) Security from 2001 to 2004. Army School of Advanced Military Studies. Stephen Lauer is an Assistant Professor at the U.S. On Highpower, when either team scores in objective-based game modes, the ship will fire its laser at the CAS-class assault carrier in the distance.Dr.The UNSC Panama is presumably named after the country of Panama.The Panama features in the skybox of the Halo Infinite multiplayer maps Deadlock and Highpower. Attempting to buy time for the frigate to find cover or evacuate its supplies and crew, Spartan ground teams were deployed in a last-ditch effort to cripple or destroy the control node for the cannon network. The frigate was forced into the cannons' killbox by squadrons of Banished hunter-killer warships. Īt some point, the Panama encountered a network of Banished Gorespike cannons after being separated from its battle group.
The Panama deployed its energy-based armaments against the carrier to little effect, but the Purveyor of Virtue was unable to retaliate with its full power, for fear of destroying the objective it was intended to exploit. Operational history įollowing the its commissioning, the Panama was deployed to defend a vital fuel and power processing station against an attack by Covenant remnant forces deploying from the CAS-class assault carrier Purveyor of Virtue.