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Winning the Battle Leading to Peace
FT-01
General Tactics
FT-02
Command in Operations Exercise for Tactical Leaders
FT-05
General Tactics
FT-02
The global action of land forces is now exercised within a strategic reality that has evolved considerably. While the risk of conventional warfare has diminished, not least because of the overwhelming technological superiority of the West, warfare within populations now and for a long time to come constitutes the general framework for commitments. This predominance of the human environment, combined with a threat that no longer has physical borders, necessarily changes the strategic and tactical expectations of military action.
In this type of warfare, the link between strategy and tactics is strengthened because decisive military action is most often conducted by the tactical level at the contact level and therefore able to seize opportunities.
Tactics thus regains its full importance. Faced with an irregular adversary, it is no longer a question of combining means of destruction in a hierarchical fashion, but of giving priority to their decentralised use to support the tactical action of forces on the ground. This logic also applies to technology, which must make available to the tactical levels all the information and means essential for gaining the upper hand.
The maneuver thus extends to the combination not only of coercive means, but also of those acting on the physical and human environment. It confers on military action on land a global capacity to coerce, control and influence in order to achieve a desired end state. This strengthens the link between military tactics and strategy.
On the basis of the new operational conditions, this document sets out the general framework for the use of land forces. Through the presentation of general principles and tactical procedures, it then aims to describe tactical action in order to facilitate understanding and enable operational readiness. It also provides the necessary references to applicable doctrine documents such as unit manuals. Their adaptation to the circumstances is then up to the judgement of the operational leaders.
In this type of warfare, the link between strategy and tactics is strengthened because decisive military action is most often conducted by the tactical level at the contact level and therefore able to seize opportunities.
Tactics thus regains its full importance. Faced with an irregular adversary, it is no longer a question of combining means of destruction in a hierarchical fashion, but of giving priority to their decentralised use to support the tactical action of forces on the ground. This logic also applies to technology, which must make available to the tactical levels all the information and means essential for gaining the upper hand.
The maneuver thus extends to the combination not only of coercive means, but also of those acting on the physical and human environment. It confers on military action on land a global capacity to coerce, control and influence in order to achieve a desired end state. This strengthens the link between military tactics and strategy.
On the basis of the new operational conditions, this document sets out the general framework for the use of land forces. Through the presentation of general principles and tactical procedures, it then aims to describe tactical action in order to facilitate understanding and enable operational readiness. It also provides the necessary references to applicable doctrine documents such as unit manuals. Their adaptation to the circumstances is then up to the judgement of the operational leaders.