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ADP 3-90
Offense and Defense
ADP 3-90 holds the fundamentals of offensive and defensive operations: the forms of maneuver, the types of attacks, and the forms of the defense. It is the doctrinal parent for FM 3-90, Tactics, which carries the detail. If a board asks about the four types of offensive operations, this is where the answer lives.
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- ADP
- Edition verified
- July 2019
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What to take from it
- Offensive operations: movement to contact, attack, exploitation, and pursuit.
- Defensive operations: area defense, mobile defense, and retrograde.
- Forms of maneuver include envelopment, turning movement, infiltration, penetration, flank attack, and frontal attack.
- Supersedes ADP 3-90 dated 13 August 2018.
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