FM 3-34.2 COMBINED-ARMS BREACHING OPERATIONS

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FM 3-34.2 provides combined-arms commanders, from company to brigade, and their staffs with the doctrine, tactics, and techniques needed to successfully overcome obstacles. It provides the commander with breaching fundamentals and information for planning, preparing, and executing breaching operations. This manual gives the coordinating and special staff officer a basis for synchronizing all combat multipliers during a breaching operation.

This is not a stand-alone manual. The user must have a fundamental understanding of the concepts outlined in FMs 5-71-2, 5-71-3, 5-71-100, 17-98, 20-32, 34-130, 71-1, 71-2, 71-3, 100-5, 100-7, 101-5, and 101-5-1. This manual also implements Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 2036.

Breaching operations are conducted to allow maneuver despite the presence of obstacles. Obstacle breaching is the employment of a combination of tactics and techniques to advance an attacking force to the far side of an obstacle that is covered by fire. It is perhaps the single, most difficult combat task a force can encounter. Understanding breaching theory is the first step to understanding breaching tactics. Breaching is a synchronized combined-arms operation under the control of a maneuver commander. Breaching operations begin when friendly forces detect an obstacle and begin to apply the breaching fundamentals, and they end when battle handover has occurred between follow-on forces and a unit conducting the breaching operation. Bulling through or forcing through is not a breaching operation. Bulling through is a decision made when a commander must react immediately to extricate his force from an untenable position within an obstacle and no other breaching operations are possible. When a force is in a minefield receiving fires and taking heavy losses, the commander may decide to immediately bull through the minefield rather than withdraw or reduce the obstacle.

PAGES: 149

PUBLICATION DATE: OCTOBER, 2002

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