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BSS5: The Battle Staff SMARTbook, 5th Ed.

Commanders, supported by their staffs, use the operations process to drive the conceptual and detailed planning necessary to understand, visualize, and describe their operational e...

TLS4: The Leader’s SMARTbook, 4th Rev. Ed. (2nd Printing)

Among professions, the Army Profession has unique characteristics because of the lethality of our operations. The Nation tasks the Army to do many things besides combat operations,...

SUTS2: The Small Unit Tactics SMARTbook, 2nd Ed. (2nd Printing)

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 comma...

SMFLS4: Sustainment & Multifunctional Logistics SMARTbook, 4th Ed.

The sustainment warfighting function is related tasks and systems that provide support and services to ensure freedom of action, extend operational reach, and prolong endurance. Th...

TAA2: The Military Engagement, Security Cooperation & Stability SMARTbook, 2nd Ed.

In the complex, dynamic operational environments of the 21st century, significant challenges to sustainable peace and security exist. Sources of instability that push parties towa...

JFODS4: The Joint Forces Operations & Doctrine SMARTbook, 4th Ed.

The nature of the challenges to the United States and its interests demand that the Armed Forces operate as a fully integrated joint team across the range of military operations. T...

The Army Operations & Doctrine SMARTbook, 5th Rev. Ed.

Unified land operations describes how the Army seizes, retains, and exploits the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage in sustained land operations throu...

MEU2: The Marine Expeditionary Unit SMARTbook, 2nd Ed.

The Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) SMARTbook is designed to be a reference for MEU and PHIBRON Commanders, MEU and PHIBRON staffs and the commanders and staffs of the Major Subord...

The Air Force Operations & Planning SMARTbook (with SMARTupdate 1)

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 a...

The Naval Operations & Planning SMARTbook

Providing an outline of Navy operational-level fundamentals and concepts, command, control, and organization, The Naval Operations & Planning SMARTbook covers essential Navy keysto...

HDS1: The Homeland Defense & DSCA SMARTbook

Homeland Security is a concerted national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within the US; reduce America’s vulnerability to terrorism, major disasters, and other emergencies; ...

CTS1: The Counterterrorism, WMD & Hybrid Threat SMARTbook

Terrorism has evolved as a preferred tactic for ideological extremists around the world, directly or indirectly affecting millions of people. Terrorists use many forms of unlawful ...

Disaster Response SMARTbook 2 – Incident Command System (ICS)

Disaster can strike anytime, anywhere. It takes many forms—a hurricane, an earthquake, a tornado, a flood, a fire, a hazardous spill, or an act of terrorism. An incident can buil...

Disaster Response SMARTbook 3 – Disaster Preparedness

Sometimes things go badly and all our hopes and plans fail us. Our illusions are shattered, our expectations are beyond anyone’s capacity to fulfill, and our demands go unanswered. When this time co...

JFODS4: The Joint Forces Operations & Doctrine SMARTbook, 4th Ed.

The nature of the challenges to the United States and its interests demand that the Armed Forces operate as a fully integrated joint team across the range of military operations. T...

Joint/Interagency SMARTbook 1 – Joint Strategic & Operational Planning

The dawn of the 21st Century presents a global environment characterized by regional instability, failed states, increased weapons proliferation, global terrorism and unconventional threats to Unit...

CTS1: The Counterterrorism, WMD & Hybrid Threat SMARTbook

Terrorism has evolved as a preferred tactic for ideological extremists around the world, directly or indirectly affecting millions of people. Terrorists use many forms of unlawful ...

TAA2: The Military Engagement, Security Cooperation & Stability SMARTbook, 2nd Ed.

In the complex, dynamic operational environments of the 21st century, significant challenges to sustainable peace and security exist. Sources of instability that push parties towa...

OPFOR SMARTbook 3 – Red Team Army

In today’s complicated and uncertain world, it is impossible to predict the exact nature of future conflict that might involve U.S. forces. This is the nature of the contemporary operational envi...

Cultural Guide SMARTbook 1 – Afghanistan

Culture forms the basis of how people interpret, understand, and respond to events and people around them. Cultural understanding is critical because who a society considers to be ...

The Stability, Peace & Counterinsurgency SMARTbook

In the complex, dynamic strategic environment of the 21st century, significant challenges to sustainable peace and security persist across the spectrum of conflict. The drivers of ...

Disaster Response SMARTbook 1 – National Incident Management System (NIMS)

The National Incident Management System (NIMS) provides a systematic, proactive approach to guide departments and agencies at all levels of government, NGOs, and the private sector to work seamlessly ...

CYBER: The Cyberspace & Electronic Warfare SMARTbook

United States armed forces operate in an increasingly network-based world. The proliferation of information technologies is changing the way humans interact with each other and the...

FHA/DR: Foreign Humanitarian Assistance, NEO & Disaster Relief SMARTbook

Foreign humanitarian assistance (FHA), to include foreign disaster relief, consists of Department of Defense (DOD) activities, normally in support of the United States Agency for I...

Joint/Interagency SMARTbook 2 – Interagency Planning & Process

Joint operation planning consists of planning activities associated with joint military operations by combatant commanders (CCDRs) and their subordinate joint force commanders (JFCs) in response to...