Can I read U.S. Army FM 31-21 Guerilla Warfare and Special Forces Operations on EtoBox?

U.S. Army FM 31-21 Guerilla Warfare and Special Forces Operations by Department of the Army is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is U.S. Army FM 31-21 Guerilla Warfare and Special Forces Operations about?

U.S. Army Field Manual (FM) 31-21 covers the basic mission of the U.S. Army Special Forces and provides guidance on conducting guerrilla warfare, focusing on irregular tactics used by smaller forces against larger, conventional enemies. The manual emphasizes the role of U.S. Special Forces in training and supporting local guerrilla groups, organizing resistance movements, and utilizing psychological operations to influence local populations. It covers tactics like ambushes, sabotage, and intelligence gathering. FM 31-21 provided a framework for U.S. Special Forces to assist local resistance groups in communist-occupied or communist-influenced countries during the Cold War. It emphasizes the importance of psychological operations to undermine enemy morale and win over local populations and many of its other key points helped to shape modern counterinsurgency and unconventional warfare operations and doctrine and remains relevant for Special Forces training to this day.

Who reads U.S. Army FM 31-21 Guerilla Warfare and Special Forces Operations?

Author

Department of the Army

Publisher

Headquarters, Department of the Army

Published

1958

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Warfare & Defence, Social_sciences