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Integration of Lethal and Nonlethal Fires: The Future of the Joint Fires Cell

Integration of Lethal and Nonlethal Fires: The Future of the Joint Fires Cell

Granger, Dewey A.

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Technology & EngineeringGeneral Political ScienceMilitary Strategy

ISBN10: 1288273088
ISBN13: 9781288273089
Publisher: Biblioscholar
Published: Nov 9 2012
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The term fires is not new within the US Army. But after years of confining fires to solely its lethal component, the Army broke with tradition. Subsequently, the Army released its new Operations manual, FM 3-0 (2008), articulating the newest operational concept, full spectrum operations. Full spectrum operations expanded previous concepts, such as Airland Battle doctrine, and sought to represent the current operating environment. FM 3-0 represented a fundamental change in the Army's approach to warfighting. Leaders must seek to employ elements of fires, lethal and nonlethal, proportional to mission and informed through the variables contained within the operating environment. FM 3-0 went even further tasking the Fires Cell with integrating and synchronizing the effects of lethal and nonlethal fires with the effects of other warfighting functions. By screening the current operating environment, this monograph examines how traditional fires cell organizations involved in current operations have adapted to achieve integration and synchronization of fires. From that examination, best practices are identified in order to anticipate future fires cell requirements necessary to achieve FM 3-0's imperatives. Commensurate with those imperatives, this paper explores what the US Army can learn from the current operating environment that can be applied to future operational level fires cells functionality? FM 3-0 makes mention of the term nonlethal fires and tasks the fires cell with its integration using the targeting process, but does not define the term. A clear definition of nonlethal fires is necessary to proceed. This monograph extrapolates a definition of nonlethal fires and uses the essentials from FM 3-0, integration and synchronization of nonlethal fires, as screening criteria to make recommendations as to the way ahead for future Army operational fires cells. The document argues that the accepted definition of nonlethal is too simplistic and should be expanded to i

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