Military Reference SMARTbooks
The Essentials of Warfighting...
SMARTbooks - the Essentials of Warfighting! Recognized as a doctrinal reference standard by military professionals around the world, SMARTbooks are designed with all levels of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Civilians in mind.
Step-by-step approach
Step-by-step instructions & illustrations make complex procedures as easy as 1-2-3.
Comprehensive quick reference & documentation
Compiled from the latest official military publications; look up what you need and get straight to work.
Straightforward
Thousands of pages are condensed to provide concise information in a single SMARTbook.
Portability means accessibility
Taking the place of multiple field manuals, publications and training circulars, SMARTbooks fit easily into a leader’s bag, back of a rucksack, or the cargo pocket of a uniform.
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About the Science of Doctrine...
Military doctrine is a body of thought on how military forces intend to operate as an integral part of a joint force. Doctrine focuses on how to think—not what to think. It is a guide to action, not a set of fixed rules. It combines history, an understanding of the operational environment, and assumptions about future conditions to help leaders think about how best to accomplish missions. It provides an authoritative guide for leaders and Soldiers but requires original applications that adapt it to circumstances. Doctrine should foster initiative and creative thinking.
Doctrine establishes a common frame of reference; including intellectual tools that military leaders use to solve military problems. It is a menu of practical options based on experience. By establishing common approaches to military tasks, doctrine promotes mutual understanding and enhances effectiveness. It facilitates communication among Soldiers and contributes to a shared professional culture. By establishing a commonly understood set of terms and symbols, doctrine facilitates rapid dissemination of orders and fosters collaborative synchronization among units. It establishes the foundation for curricula in the Military Education System.
Military doctrine forms the basis for training and leader development standards and support products. Training standards provide performance baselines to evaluate how well a task is executed. Together, doctrine, training, and resources form the key to military readiness. Doctrine consists of fundamental principles; tactics, techniques, and procedures; and terms and symbols.
Applying Informational Art to Doctrinal Science...
SMARTbooks can be used as quick reference guides during actual tactical combat operations, as study guides at military education and professional development courses, and as lesson plans and checklists in support of training. Serving a generation of warfighters, military reference SMARTbooks have become "mission-essential" around the world:
- Military education and professional development courses/schools: officer and noncommissioned officer basic and advanced courses, NCO and Sergeants Major Academy, West Point and ROTC, Command & General Staff College (CGSC), Joint Forces Staff College (JFSC) and the War College
- National Training Center (NTC), Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) and Battle Command Training Program (BCTP)
- Active, Reserve and Guard units across the full-spectrum of operations
- Global War on Terrorism operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Asia-Pacific
- Combatant Command (COCOM) and JTF Headquarters around the world
- Allied, coalition and multinational partner support and training to include NATO, Iraq and the Afghanistan National Army
Current SMARTbooks
The Stability, Peace & Counterinsurgency SMARTbook
Nontraditional Approaches in a Dynamic Security Environment!
A multi-service, single-source reference for stability, peace and counterinsurgency operations designed for all levels of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines & Civilians! Includes material from FM 3-07 Stability Operations, JP & FM 3-07.3 Peace Operations, JP & FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency Operations, JP 3-57 Civil-Military Operations, JP 3-29 Foreign Humanitarian Operations, FM 3-07.1 Security Force Assistance, JP 3-16 Multinational Operations, JP 3-08 Interagency, IGO and NGO Coordination, and many more!
The Sustainment & Multifunctional Logistician's SMARTbook
Warfighter's Guide to Logistics, Personnel Services, & Health Services Support
Updated with the latest doctrinal references (FM 4-0 Sustainment, FMI 4-93.2 Sustainment Brigade, JP 4-0 Joint Logistics, FM 3-35 Deployment & Redeployment, and more than 20 others), it's the retitled second revised edition of our Combat Service Support & Deployment SMARTbook. Covers the sustainment warfighting function to include logistics, personnel services, and health service support to the warfighter; sustainment brigade operations; brigade combat team (BCT) sustainment; sustainment planning; joint logistics; plus deployment, RSOI, & redeployment operations!
The Joint Forces Operations & Doctrine SMARTbook
Guide to Joint, Multinational & Interagency Operations
The Joint Forces Operations & Doctrine SMARTbook is designed for use by ALL SERVICES and JOINT FORCES across the tactical, operational and strategic levels of war! Completely updated with the most recent joint doctrine, it includes the latest editions of JP 3-0 Joint Operations (incorporating Change 1) and JP 5-0 Joint Operation Planning, plus more than ten additional publications! Recognizing joint operations may take place with the military forces of allies and coalition partners, US and foreign government agencies, state and local government agencies, and intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, we’ve added three completely new chapters from JP 3-13, JP 3-16, and JP 3-08!
The Army Operations & Doctrine SMARTbook
Guide to FM 3-0 Operations (2008) & the Six Warfighting Functions
The Army Operations & Doctrine SMARTbook is the re-titled fourth revised edition of The Operations SMARTbook. It's UPDATED & EXPANDED to incorporate the new 2008 version of FM 3-0 Operations PLUS chapters on each of the six warfighting functions: movement and maneuver, intelligence, fires, sustainment, command and control, and protection.
The Leader's SMARTbook, 3rd Rev. Ed. WITH CHANGE ONE
Doctrinal Guide to Military Leadership & Training for Full Spectrum Operations
Leadership is the central element of combat power. Confident, competent, and informed leadership focuses the other elements of combat power by formulating sound operational ideas and assuring discipline and motivation in the force. It serves as the catalyst that creates conditions for success. Includes Army leaders for the 21st century (AL21); the basis of leadership; the Army leader; leading, developing, achieving; counseling, coaching, mentoring; training for full spectrum operations and METL development; training plans, meetings and schedules; training execution and training exercises; and training assessments and AARs!
The Small Unit Tactics SMARTbook
Leader's Reference Guide to Conducting Tactical Operations
Tactics is the employment and ordered arrangement of forces in relation to each other. Through tactics, commanders use combat power to accomplish missions. The tactical-level commander uses combat power in battles, engagements, and small-unit actions. The Small Unit Tactics SMARTbook translates and bridges operational-level doctrine into tactical application -- in the form of tactics, techniques and procedures -- and provides the “how to” at the small-unit level, providing a ready reference at the battalion, company, platoon, squad and fire team level.
The Battle Staff SMARTbook, 3rd Rev. Ed.
Guide to Designing, Planning & Conducting Military Operations
NEW third revised edition of The Battle Staff SMARTbook, incorporating the 2010 edition of FM 5-0, The Operations Process. In addition to the introduction of design, the 2010 revision of FM 5-0 builds on and expands the body of doctrine associated with full spectrum operations described in the 2008 edition of FM 3-0, Operations. Moving beyond planning and orders production, FM 5-0 holistically addresses planning, preparation, execution, and assessment in the continuous cycle of the operations process. Covers the operations process; design; battle command; the military decisionmaking process; integrating processes; plans and orders; mission command and command posts; rehearsals & after action reviews; and operational terms, acronyms and graphics!
The Naval Operations & Planning SMARTbook
Guide to Designing, Planning & Conducting Maritime Operations
The Naval Operations & Planning SMARTbook covers essential Navy keystone warfighting doctrine and maritime operations at the JFMCC/CFMCC, Fleet and JTF levels! Providing an outline of Navy operational-level fundamentals and concepts, command, control, and organization, it bridges between the theory of operational art and the practical specific guidance that Navy commanders and staffs require to accomplish their mission.
NEW! The Air Force Operations & Planning SMARTbook
Leader's Guide to Planning & Conducting Airpower Operations
The role of the Air Force is to defend the US and protect its interests through airpower, guided by the principles of joint operations and the tenets of airpower. Airpower is the ability to project military power or influence through the control and exploitation of air, space, and cyberspace to achieve strategic, operational, or tactical objectives. Airpower exploits the third dimension of the operational environment, the electromagnetic spectrum, and time to leverage speed, range, flexibility, precision tempo, and lethality to create effects from and within the air, space, and cyberspace domains.
