Military Doctrines - Reading List

All the FMs are taken off line and are restricted to internal use. Though some are not class protected, they remained restricted use. That includes the British, Canadian, and Australian FMs as well.

The current ones running around the internet are the older copies that while not class protected, are also not being offerred on line anymore.

Antimony:
As the good COL pointed out you don't get to see the new stuff.
Many countries do not even release their old FMs even after the 'Restricted' classification has run its course. I know that is the general case here in Australia.

Also I will point out that the FMs you have seen tend to be at least 2 versions out of date literally. That means their use is really only good for civis who want to play civilian/public domain tactical war games according to a sort of 'real' set of doctrine. If you work with the military tactical sims they are useless.
They do have a historical concept if you are a historian of tactical and strategic behavior.

Now if you really want a nice set of these FMs try this site, but it will cost you about US$55 to get the complete set of CDs.
Army Training, Engineering and Medical CD Collection at USHistoricalArchive.com

So if you want to join the army, expect to be an officer and crash hot tactically, you need to do a few fundamentals. But that becomes another story and longer than this post.

All I want to do is talk down a fellow civvie who talks tactical trash on forums like these, and then slink away when a rea pro saunters in

But seriously, since this is a military forum and especially this section is labelled strategy and tactics, I thought that folks would do well to read up military theory a bit.

By the way, are you on worldaffairsboard (WAB)?

Well the material will give you some form of understanding.

I am on many boards in one form or the other, WAB being one.
(If you walk through the bush and leave no tracks, if your troops say and believe you can appear from nowwhere; you are a shadow.) That applies very much, like the name.

http://ids.nic.in/Indian%20Army%20Do...20conv%20w.pdf

CAUTION!!! Large file size

for a doc of only 45 pages, this is a freaking 16 MB file. Wonder if the MOD babus used jpegs instead of text

Part I
http://ids.nic.in/Indian%20Army%20Do...doctrine_1.doc

Part II - Operations
http://ids.nic.in/Indian%20Army%20Do...doctrine_2.doc

Source: Integrated Defence Staff website Integrated Defence Staff -- http://ids.nic.in

Does anyone have the Joint Operations doctrines on Amphibious Operations and Special Forces?

Indian Army Doctrine - 2004 in PDF format.

NEW DELHI: Army chief General Deepak Kapoor will be leaving on Sunday for Myanmar, a country with which India has ramped up diplomatic as well as
military ties to counter China's deep strategic inroads there.

Gen Kapoor, who is also chairman of the chiefs of staff committee, will seek to further boost bilateral defence cooperation as part of the continuing efforts to ensure China does not manage to outflank India once again in the region.

"During the three-day visit, Gen Kapoor will hold talks with the military top brass as well as visit different defence establishments in Myanmar,'' said an official.

Incidentally, the visit comes at a time when the US, a long-standing bitter critic of the Myanmarese ruling military junta, has announced its intention to actively work with countries like China and India to enter into a dialogue with Myanmar.

Though a detente between Myanmar and the West, which has imposed sanctions on the former, is still a long way off, the military junta's declaration about introducing a new constitution and holding elections in 2010 is being followed closely across the world.

India, of course, has its own concerns. It went in for a realpolitik change in its policy after several years of supporting Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and the democratic movement in Myanmar, during which New Delhi found much to its dismay that Beijing had deftly stepped into the vacuum to forge strategic links with Yangon.

Casting aside western concerns about supplying military equipment to Myanmar, the only Asean country with which its shares land and maritime borders, India has since then transferred four Islander maritime patrol aircraft as well as 105mm light artillery guns, naval gun-boats, mortars, grenade-launchers and rifles, among other equipment, to Yangon.

India, in turn, has got some support from the military junta to flush out Indian insurgent groups operating from its soil. The Indian and Myanmarese armies, for instance, have conducted `coordinated operations' along their 1,643-km land border against outfits like United Liberation Front of Asom, United National Liberation Front, People's Liberation Army and Kannglei Yawol Kanna Lup.

There have been developments on other fronts like economic cooperation, energy security and connectivity as well. India and Myanmar, for instance, have launched the Kaladan multi-modal transit transport project, which will provide India with an alternate gateway to its northeastern states by bypassing Bangladesh.

India, of course, also remains keen that Myanmar expedite the process of national reconciliation and political reforms, and make it broad-based to include all sections of society and different ethnic groups.

Eye on China, Army chief on Myanmar visit - India - The Times of India