Tank-Light Infantry Company Operations (Draft Field Manual)

摘要

For years our Army has been wrestling with how to best integrate Light Infantryand Armor on the battlefield. The National Training Center, Joint Readiness Training Center, and the Combat Maneuver Training Center continue to show that although we realize this to be a problem, we can't quite come up with how to make this an effective fighting task organization. We must rid ourselves of any false impressions of this task organization, throw away our parochial views based on branch, and realize that tanks can be superb infantry support weapons. The purpose of this manual is to provide a user-friendly handbook for use by infantry company commanders who will have a tank platoon task-organized to their company. The focus is on the infantry company and the tank platoon, with special attention provided to operations in restricted terrain.