Maneuver Warfare Collection - Marine Corps Association

2d MARDIV Maneuver Warfare Study

On 11 January, MajGen A.M. Gray, commanding general, 2d Marine Division hosted a combined audience of 250 officers from the 2d Marine Division, 2d Marine Aircraft Wing, 2d Force Service Support Group, and Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, to focus attention on current tactics and the concept of

Readings on Maneuver Warfare

Letter to the Editor

by Capt G.K. Cunningham You name 7 of the 11 recommended books on maneuver warfare [see Books in Nov81 and Dec81 GAZETTES]. What are the other four? >>>Editors Note: The

Current Training and Maneuver Warfare

When you lock horns with an enemy motorized rifle division, it's too late to break out the textbook for a quick course in maneuver warfare.

In addition to encouraging firepower/attrition, the scenario-driven exercise is training operational/tactical initiative and flexibility out of the Marine Corps. There is no challenge, if you know you are going to "win," because the scenario will prevent the aggressor forces from interfering with

Guerrilla Warfare

Letter to the Editor

by Capt C.A. Leader . . . The whole question of guerrilla warfare is one I find most interesting. In our present concern with NATO and Southwest Asia, we as

Maneuver/Fluid Warfare

A Review of the Concepts

In addition, a vigorous and aggressive counterreconnaissance action must be mounted to destroy the enemy's reconnaissance gathering capability. This effort will dampen the enemy's initiative and keep him in the dark about our own order of battle and disposition. Counterreconnaissance must give the

Intelligence & Maneuver Warfare

Letter to the Editor

by Capt L. A. Robinson Mr. Lind insists on beginning many of his thought provoking articles in the GAZETTE on maneuver warfare (Mar80, Sep81, et al.) by suggesting that Marines

Intelligence & Maneuver Warfare

Letter to the Editor

by Capt L. A. Robinson Mr. Lind insists on beginning many of his thought provoking articles in the GAZETTE on maneuver warfare (Mar80, Sep81, et al.) by suggesting that Marines

Maneuver Warfare

Letter to the Editor

by Maj C. J. Gregor It has been interesting to observe all the deference and praise heaped on Mr. Lind as some modern master of military thought and analysis. It

A Critique of ECP 9-5, 1981 Edition

On the chaotic battlefield it is agility in thinking and acting that leads to success; the same is true in writing manuals.

Fourth, in jumping directly from the goal of destroying the enemy's cohesion to a list of target priorities, ECP 9-5 forgets the central point of maneuver warfare: maneuver! The ECP falls right back into a firepower mentality-a more sophisticated version than the "blow away everything" approach of

The ‘TACWAR’ Wargame

Training

TACWAR is played in "slow time." That is, each minute of combat will take longer than 60 seconds to simulate. TACWAR game "minutes" are divided into three segments; an Indirect Fire Segment, a Fire and Movement Segment, and an Administrative Segment. An experienced group of players can complete a

Maneuver Warfare Training

Subordinate elements involved include Headquarters 6th Marine Amphibious Brigade (6th MAB); Regimental Landing Team 2 (RLT 2); 2d and 3d Battalions, 2d Marines; 3d Battalion (-), 24th Marines; nearly 60 tanks from 2d Tank Battalion; more than 50 assault amphibian vehicles from the 2d Assault