FM 8-10 HEALTH SERVICE SUPPORT IN A THEATER OF OPERATIONS
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The Army’s keystone doctrinal manual, FM 100-5, explains how the Army plans and operates with other Services and allied forces, While emphasizing conventional military operations, FM 100-5 recognizes that Army forces must be capable of operating effectively in any battlefield environment.
The Mission of the Army Medical Department: Armies that are winners of battles and campaigns have the following common qualities:
- They are physically fit.
- They are emotionally well.
- They are capable of concentrating superior combat power at decisive times.
The AMEDD plays a key role in developing and maintaining combat power. Its mission is to maintain the health of the Army to conserve its fighting strength (trained manpower), Commanders need to retain acclimated and experienced personnel to perform their particular mission. In retaining such personnel, the load on the replacement system is diminished, and the requirements for patient evacuation are decreased. On the other hand, accumulation of patients within any combat unit restricts its movements. It may also reduce the soldier’s willingness to take necessary risks because of a perceived lack of HSS.
The strategic environment within each theater consists of a variety of conditions—political, economic, and military. It also consists of a range of threats that result in a wide range of operations that can correspondingly occur in response to those conditions and threats. These operations are conducted within a continuum consisting of three general states—peacetime competition, conflict, and war. The operational continuum discussed below suggests the types of operations conducted during the three general states. The operational continuum is intended to assist in the articulation of the strategic situations within a theater. Although the following discussion of the states within the continuum describes each in distinct terms, in actual circumstances there may be no precise distinctions where a particular state ends and another begins. In any case, the ability to describe strategic situations in clear terms will assist commanders in chief devising strategies, and projecting resources.
Peacetime Competition. Peacetime competition is a state wherein political, economic, informational, and military measures, short of combat operations or active support to warring parties, are employed to achieve national objectives. Within this state, US forces may conduct joint training exercises to:
- Demonstrate resolve.
- Conduct peacekeeping operations.
- Participate in nation-building activities.
- Conduct disaster relief and humanitarian assistance.
- Provide security assistance to friends and allies.
- Execute shows of force,
Some operations, such as support to interagency counter-narcotic operations, have dimensions that may span peacetime competition and conflict. These examples are illustrative, not inclusive. When confrontations and tensions occur involving the clear threat or the use of armed force, a situation exists that is a potential point of transition to a state of conflict.
PAGES: 175
PUBLICATION DATE: MARCH, 1991
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