Download or read book Tc 18 06 Special Forces Guide to Information Operations written by Headquarters Department of the Army and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information operations (IO) are essential to the successful execution of military operations. The goal of IO is to gain and maintain information superiority that translates to a competitive edge in the information environment. Users of Training Circular (TC) 18-06, Special Forces Guide to Information Operations, must be familiar with the decisionmaking process established in Army Doctrine Publication (ADP) 5-0, The Operations Process, and the operational concepts established in ADP 3-0, Unified Land Operations. This TC serves as a guide to describe the fundamentals of how to incorporate IO at the tactical and operational level. Appendixes A through F offer tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) Special Forces (SF) Soldiers can use to analyze and plan information operations. This TC implements Army and joint IO doctrine established in FM 3-13, Inform and Influence Activities, and Joint Publication (JP) 3-13, Information Operations.

Download or read book TC 18 01 Special Forces Unconventional Warfare written by Department Of the Army and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TC 18-01 is authoritative but not directive. It serves as a guide and does not preclude SF units from developing their own standing operating procedures (SOPs) to meet their needs. It explains planning and the roles of SF, Military Information Support operations (MISO), and Civil Affairs (CA) in UW operations. There are appropriate manuals within the series that addresses the other primary SF missions in detail. More content available at: doguedebordeauxsurvival.com

Download or read book Field Manual FM 3 18 Special Forces Operations written by United States Army and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FM 3-18 is the principal manual for United States Army Special Forces (SF) doctrine. It describes SF roles, missions, capabilities, organization, mission command, employment, and sustainment operations across the range of military operations. Topics include: *The History of Special Forces-World War II, The Cold War, and *Modern Special Forces *The Role of Special Forces *Special Forces Guidance and Principal Tasks *The Organization of Special Forces-US Special Operations Command and the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School *Employment of Special Forces-County Teams, Theater of Operations, and Training Programs *Unconventional Warfare and Foreign Internal Defense

Download or read book Information Operations written by Joint Forces Staff College (U.S.) and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern means of communication have turned the world into an information fishbowl and, in terms of foreign policy and national security in post-Cold War power politics, helped transform international power politics. Information operations (IO), in which time zones are as important as national boundaries, is the use of modern technology to deliver critical information and influential content in an effort to shape perceptions, manage opinions, and control behavior. Contemporary IO differs from traditional psychological operations practiced by nation-states, because the availability of low-cost high technology permits nongovernmental organizations and rogue elements, such as terrorist groups, to deliver influential content of their own as well as facilitates damaging cyber-attacks ("hactivism") on computer networks and infrastructure. As current vice president Dick Cheney once said, such technology has turned third-class powers into first-class threats. Conceived as a textbook by instructors at the Joint Command, Control, and Information Warfare School of the U.S. Joint Forces Staff College and involving IO experts from several countries, this book fills an important gap in the literature by analyzing under one cover the military, technological, and psychological aspects of information operations. The general reader will appreciate the examples taken from recent history that reflect the impact of IO on U.S. foreign policy, military operations, and government organization.

Download or read book Information Operations Doctrine and Practice written by Christopher Paul and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2008-03-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A no-nonsense treatment of information operations, this handbook makes clear what does and does not fall under information operations, how the military plans and executes such efforts, and what the role of IO ought to be in the war of ideas. Paul provides detailed accounts of the doctrine and practice of the five core information operations capabilities (psychological operations, military deception, operations security, electronic warfare, and computer network operations) and the three related capabilities (public affairs, civil-military operations, and military support to public diplomacy). The discussion of each capability includes historical examples, explanations of tools and forces available, and current challenges faced by that community. An appendix of selected excerpts from military doctrine ties the work firmly to the military theory behind information operations. Paul argues that contemporary IO's mixing of capabilities focused on information content with those focused on information systems conflates apples with the apple carts. This important study concludes that information operations would be better poised to contribute to the war of ideas if IO were reorganized, separating content capabilities from systems capabilities and separating the employment of black (deceptive or falsely attributed) information from white (wholly truthful and correctly attributed) information.

Download or read book Information Operations Doctrine Tactics Techniques and Procedures FM 3 13 100 6 written by Department Army and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information is an element of combat power. Commanders conduct information operations (IO) to apply it. Focused IO-synchronized with effective information management and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance-enable commanders to gain and maintain information superiority. IO is a prime means for achieving information superiority. Users of FM 3-13 must be familiar with the military decision making process established in FM 5-0, Army Planning and Orders Production; the operations process, established in FM 3-0, Operations; and commander's visualization, described in FM 6-0, Mission Command: Command and Control of Army Forces. As the Army's key integrating manual for IO, this manual prescribes IO doctrine and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP). It also establishes doctrine and TTP for the IO elements of operations security and military deception. This manual implements joint IO doctrine established in JP 3-13, Joint Doctrine for Information Operations; JP 3-54, Joint Doctrine for Operations Security; and JP 3-58, Joint Doctrine for Military Deception. This manual establishes the following as the definition of IO used by Army forces: Information operations is the employment of the core capabilities of electronic warfare, computer network operations, psychological operations, military deception, and operations security, in concert with specified supporting and related capabilities, to affect or defend information and information systems, and to influence decision making. This definition supersedes the definition of IO in FM 3-0. It is consistent with joint initiatives.

Download or read book U S Army Special Forces Guide to Unconventional Warfare written by U.S. Department of the Army and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With fiercely detailed information and visuals provided by the U.S. Army, U.S. Army Special Forces Guide to Unconventional Warfare is meant for experienced soldiers and novices alike. With this guide, you will be able to apply its material to understand and create initiators, igniters, and incendiary materials. The vast table of contents includes coverage on napalm, gelled gasoline, fire fudge, silver nitrate, concentrated sulfuric acid, fuse cords, delay mechanisms, and spontaneous combustion. Filled with special forces secrets, U.S. Guide to Unconventional Warfare is an invaluable tool for any provocateur-in-training and an invitation to look at how our special forces are fighting our enemies overseas. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a range of books for readers interested in military tactics and skills. We publish content provided by or of interest to the U.S. Army, Army Rangers, the U.S. Navy, Navy SEALs, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the Department of Defense. Our books cover topics such as survival, emergency medicine, weapons, guns, weapons systems, hand-to-hand combat, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Download or read book Tc 18 01 1 Unconventional Warfare Mission Planning Guide for Special Forces written by Headquarters Department of the Army and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TC 18-01.1 Unconventional Warfare Mission Planning Guide for Special Forces Operational Detachment - Alpha Level provides detailed planning data and guidance for the conduct of US Special Forces Unconventional Warfare operations. Unconventional Warfare is defined as: Activities conducted to enable a resistance movement or insurgency to coerce, disrupt or overthrow an occupying power or government by operating through or with an underground, auxiliary and guerrilla force in a denied area. This manual is presented in easy to read 6x9 paperback format. Proudly printed in the USA. For more like this, look for the distinctive OCP camouflage covers.

Download or read book TC 31 29 Special Forces Operational Techniques written by Department of the Army Headquarters and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual, one of the most iconic and informative of the 31-series Special Forces publications, was written in 1988, at a time when the lessons of the Vietnam era were still fresh. Added to this was the counterterrorism focus of that period as well as a good deal of focus on countering the forces of the waning Soviet Empire. Many of the tactics, techniques and procedures found in this publication are found nowhere else. This manual is arguably one of the finest Special Forces "how-to" books ever written. The book covers topics as diverse as advanced urban warfare and counterterrorism operations to ambushing, arms and equipment caching, special reconnaissance, advanced land navigation, combat immediate action drills and more. From the preface page: "This manual provides information and guidance on Special Forces tactics and techniques. It provides guidance for commanders, staff officers, and personnel responsible for SF training and operations. It describes operational techniques used by SF organizations in the conduct of their missions in support of the AirLand battle. It also considers tactics that potential adversaries can employ against deployed SF units and methods these units can use to counter those adversaries. Since SF Soldiers must be thoroughly knowledgeable and proficient in conventional tactics and techniques, a large portion of this manual discusses or refers to conventional organizations, formations, and tactics. SF use these tactics and techniques as a basis for instructing, advising, and assisting indigenous personnel in foreign internal defense, unconventional warfare, direct action or SF reconnaissance operations. They also use them as a basis for developing detachment standing operating procedures and working documents." Presented in Special Operations Press' distinctive woodland camouflage cover denoting an '80s or '90s-era publication, this manual is printed in easy-to-read 6 x 9, perfect-bound paperback format. Proudly printed in the USA.

Download or read book Unconventional Warfare Mission Planning Guide for the Special Forces Operational Detachment Charlie Level written by Headquarters Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning, Command and Control of Special Forces Unconventional Warfare Operations.TC 18-01.3 provides practical procedures and examples useful to mission planning of unconventional warfare (UW). This publication is designed primarily for use at national and international training centers and home station unit training events. It is intended to be used in conjunction with current relevant doctrine and supporting products. TC 18-01.3 is a UW mission planning guide designed specifically for the operational detachment-charlie (ODC) level. This ODC level incorporates all basic element functions that occur in or outside but in support of the unconventional warfare operating area (UWOA). It isbased on the traditional ODC, but is deliberately inclusive of any size element (including special activities elements) appropriate to this echelon and is based primarily not on specific units but on functions required (command, operational planning and support, joint and interagency coordination, military information support operations [MISO], Civil Affairs [CA], and so on). Planning guidance designed specifically for the operational detachment-alpha (ODA) may be found in TC 18-01.1, and guidance designed specifically for the operational detachment-bravo (ODB) may be found in TC 18-01.2.The principal audience for TC 18-01.3 is commanders, staff officers, and operational personnel at the ODA, ODB, and ODC levels, and all observers/controllers responsible for evaluation and training assistance to those units. TC 18-01.3 is also useful to conventional force commanders and staffs in better understanding the parameters of special operations forces (SOF) and conventional forces (CF) interdependence when SOF is engaged in UW.This publication is a collaborative effort between the Special Operations Training Detachment Joint Readiness Training Center cadre and the Special Forces (SF) Doctrine Division at the U.S. Army Special Operations Center of Excellence, USAJFKSWCS. It is intended to be revised on a regular basis based on interaction between observers/controllers, the using units, and the publication authors.

Download or read book The Role of Special Forces in Information Operations written by Frederick C. Gottschalk and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the role of the Special Forces Group in Information Operations. It focuses on providing information to the Joint Task Force planner and the Special Forces unit leaders. It provides the Joint Forces Commander and planner an understanding of Special Forces unit's core capabilities, mission types and operational methods. It provides the Special Forces leader an understanding of what Information Operations are, and how his unit fits into the overall structure of an Information Operation. The thesis looks at four recent operations (Just Cause, Desert Storm, Noble Obelisk and Joint Guard) and Special Forces unit's missions during those operations. The missions are explained and cross-referenced with the elements of Information Operations (Operational Security, Military Deception, Psychological Operations, Electronic Warfare, Physical Destruction, Physical Security, Counterdeception, Counterpropaganda, Counterintelligence, Special Information Operations and Computer Network Attack) to demonstrate the potential role of Special Forces units in future Information Operations.

Download or read book US Army Special Forces Guide to Unconventional Warfare written by Department of the Army and published by Silver Rock Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unconventional warfare is a unique and important part of US Special Forces. Aimed at exploiting hostile forces' economic, psychological, and political vulnerabilities, its tenacious and brutal tactics infiltrate, erode, and exhaust the enemy from many angles. Special Forces personnel spreading subversion deep behind enemy lines must be prepared to navigate and survive bone-chillingly dangerous situations at any moment; knowing how to handle, improvise, and modify incendiary devices is a crucial component of their training. US Army Special Forces Guide to Unconventional Warfare: Devices and Techniques for Incendiaries surveys the multifaceted and varied design of incendiary systems. Intended for use by Army Special Forces in the field, this concise and informative manual covers a wide range of incendiary devices and materials, initiators, ignitors, improvised constructions and material sources, delay mechanisms, and just about anything else you'd need to know about turning a cigarette and a matchbox into a delay or a shoelace into a fuse.Technical information is also provided about incendiary materials such as napalm, gelled gasoline, fire fudge, sugar-chlorate, thermite, paraffin-sawdust, and more. Jam-packed with detailed information, The US Army Special Forces Guide to Unconventional Warfare is a fascinating read for the curious mind and a fascinating glimpse into the high-stakes, clandestine world of Special Forces ops.

Download or read book Unconventional Warfare Mission Planning Guide for the Special Forces Operational Detachment Charlie Level written by Headquarters Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning, Command and Control of Special Forces Unconventional Warfare Operations.TC 18-01.3 provides practical procedures and examples useful to mission planning of unconventional warfare (UW). This publication is designed primarily for use at national and international training centers and home station unit training events. It is intended to be used in conjunction with current relevant doctrine and supporting products. TC 18-01.3 is a UW mission planning guide designed specifically for the operational detachment-charlie (ODC) level. This ODC level incorporates all basic element functions that occur in or outside but in support of the unconventional warfare operating area (UWOA). It isbased on the traditional ODC, but is deliberately inclusive of any size element (including special activities elements) appropriate to this echelon and is based primarily not on specific units but on functions required (command, operational planning and support, joint and interagency coordination, military information support operations [MISO], Civil Affairs [CA], and so on). Planning guidance designed specifically for the operational detachment-alpha (ODA) may be found in TC 18-01.1, and guidance designed specifically for the operational detachment-bravo (ODB) may be found in TC 18-01.2.The principal audience for TC 18-01.3 is commanders, staff officers, and operational personnel at the ODA, ODB, and ODC levels, and all observers/controllers responsible for evaluation and training assistance to those units. TC 18-01.3 is also useful to conventional force commanders and staffs in better understanding the parameters of special operations forces (SOF) and conventional forces (CF) interdependence when SOF is engaged in UW.This publication is a collaborative effort between the Special Operations Training Detachment Joint Readiness Training Center cadre and the Special Forces (SF) Doctrine Division at the U.S. Army Special Operations Center of Excellence, USAJFKSWCS. It is intended to be revised on a regular basis based on interaction between observers/controllers, the using units, and the publication authors.

Download or read book The Official US Army Special Forces Unconventional Warfare Handbook Guerrilla Warfare Resistance and Insurgency written by U. S. Army and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNING ASYMMETRIC WARS FROM THE UNDERGROUND How to Make Trouble and Influence People. Vital reading for the political warfare student, Special Forces operator, prepper or survivalist - with principles and techniques equally useful to the entrepreneur or guerrilla marketing specialist. Learn how to build and run an insurgency using unrest, political propaganda, and subversion - and how to tell when these techniques are being used against you! Discover how to defeat a vastly more powerful opponent through clandestine resistance and open, armed revolution. Full-size edition - LARGE 8.5" x 11" FORMAT: clear, detailed text & illustrations. Complete & Unabridged. Created & trusted by the United States Army's John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School. IMPORTANT: this is not the older, outdated field manual (FM 3-05.130) or the even older and entirely obsolete FM 31-21 that is often offered for sale - this is the current, up-to-date TC 18-01. Don't be fooled! "Batteries last hours, books last decades: get the print edition!" Please note: for your reading pleasure, the publisher has re-drawn numerous illustrations throughout this book, due to the low resolution of the original. This edition is therefore the only high-resolution version available in the market. For the population of an area occupied by a hostile or tyrannical government, foreign or domestic, the existence of a resistance movement is often the only hope of freedom against the odds. This book demonstrates how to successfully rebel against and overturn such a government, by building an underground organization of like-minded individuals capable of exercising the full spectrum of resistance - from winning hearts and minds to waging open armed insurrection and guerrilla warfare. Created by the United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, this manual not only equips the Special Forces operator with the knowledge necessary to instigate unrest and rebellion in foreign enemy nations, it also enables all readers not only to prepare for the worst-case scenario at home but to recognize when these powerfully influential techniques are used against them. "There is another type of warfare-new in its intensity, ancient in its origin-war by guerrillas, subversives, insurgents, assassins; war by ambush instead of by combat, by infiltration instead of aggression, seeking victory by eroding and exhausting the enemy instead of engaging him. It preys on unrest."President John F. Kennedy, 1962 DESTROY TYRANNY, BUILD JUSTICE & LIBERTY! Search for 'CARLILE MILITARY LIBRARY' to find more TOP-FLIGHT, SQUARED-AWAY publications for your professional bookshelf! Information purposes only. Proudly published in the U.S.A. by CARLILE MEDIA.

Download or read book FM 3 18 Special Forces Operations written by Headquarters Department of the Army and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FM 3-18 is the principal manual for Special Forces (SF) doctrine. It describes SF roles, missions, capabilities, organization, mission command, employment, and sustainment operations across the range of military operations. This manual is a continuation of the doctrine established in the JP 3-05 series, ADP 3-05, ADRP 3-05, and FM 3-05. The principal audience for FM 3-18 is all members of the profession of arms. Commanders and staffs of Army headquarters serving as joint task force (JTF) or multinational headquarters should also refer to applicable joint or multinational doctrine concerning the range of military operations and joint or multinational forces. Trainers and educators throughout the Army will also use this publication. Commanders, staffs, and subordinates ensure their decisions and actions comply with applicable United States, international, and, in some cases, host-nation laws and regulations. Commanders at all levels ensure their Soldiers operate in accordance with the law of war and the rules of engagement. (See FM 27-10.) FM 3-18 uses joint terms where applicable. Selected joint and Army terms and definitions appear in both the glossary and the text. FM 3-18 applies to the Active Army, the Army National Guard (ARNG)/Army National Guard of the United States, and the United States Army Reserve (USAR) unless otherwise stated. The proponent of FM 3-18 is the Special Operations Center of Excellence. The preparing agency is the SF Directorate, United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School.

Download or read book Special Warfare written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book FM 3 13 Information Operations written by Department Of the Army and published by . This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information operations (IO) creates effects in and through the information environment. IO optimizes the information element of combat power and supports and enhances all other elements in order to gain an operational advantage over an enemy or adversary. These effects are intended to influence, disrupt, corrupt or usurp enemy or adversary decision making and everything that enables it, while enabling and protecting friendly decision making. Because IO's central focus is affecting decision making and, by extension, the will to fight, commanders personally ensure IO is integrated into operations from the start