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Doctrine

Every ADP, FM, ATP, and TC that matters, indexed by number and summarized in plain language, with a link to the official file.

Doctrine Primer

ADP 1-01 explains what doctrine is, what it is not, and how the Army organizes it. It walks through the publication hierarchy, how terms and symbols are approved, and how doctrine relates to policy and to tactics, techniques, and procedures. Start here if the ADP, FM, ATP, TC alphabet soup does not yet make sense.

What publication is the Army's physical readiness training doctrine, and what system does it describe?

FM 7-22, Holistic Health and Fitness. It describes the H2F system and the five readiness domains: physical, nutritional, mental, spiritual, and sleep. FM 7-22 is the training system. ATP 7-22.01 carries the testing procedures.

Army Training and Leader Development

AR 350-1 is the policy behind Army training: mandatory training requirements, institutional training, and leader development programs. The 1 June 2025 major revision superseded the 10 December 2017 edition, folding in years of Army directives and trimming the common mandatory training list. If you build a training calendar, this is the regulation that constrains it.

Command and Control

ADP 6-0 is the Army's doctrine for command and control, and the home of mission command -- the approach to command and control that empowers subordinates to act within the commander's intent. The July 2026 edition drops the older 'Mission Command: Command and Control of Army Forces' title and is organized around command, control, and the command and control warfighting function. Its seven principles of mission command are among the most commonly asked board material.

Drill and Ceremonies

TC 3-21.5 is the Army's drill and ceremonies manual: individual and unit drill, the manual of arms, and the sequence for formations, reviews, and ceremonies. It is the single most quoted publication at promotion boards after the leadership doctrine. The May 2021 edition supersedes the January 2012 version.

Information

ADP 3-13 is the Army's first doctrinal publication devoted to information. It explains how Army forces create and exploit information advantages and how information effects are planned and integrated like any other capability. It is newer than most of the doctrine on this list, so expect subordinate publications to still be catching up.

Stability

ADP 3-07 is the Army's doctrine for stability operations. It explains the stability operations tasks, how they relate to offense and defense, and how military efforts fit alongside civilian agencies and host-nation institutions. It matters most during consolidation of gains, when the fighting slows and the governing does not.

Sustainment Operations

FM 4-0 is the Army's manual for planning and executing sustainment operations at echelon. It carries the detail behind ADP 4-0: how sustainment units are organized, how support is planned, and how the force is sustained through large-scale combat. The March 2026 edition is one of the newest publications in the Army's doctrine library.

The Operations Process

ADP 5-0 is the doctrine for how units plan, prepare, execute, and assess operations, and what commanders and staffs each owe that process. It is short, and almost every staff argument you will have traces back to it. FM 5-0 carries the detailed procedures.

Training

ADP 7-0 is the Army's doctrine for training Soldiers and units. It carries the principles of training that leaders apply when they build and defend a training plan. The April 2024 edition supersedes the July 2019 version; FM 7-0 carries the procedures.

Levels of leadership

Direct, organizational, and strategic. The competencies stay the same at every level; the span, the time horizon, and the amount of face-to-face contact change.

Reading an Army publication number

What ADP, FM, ATP, TC, AR, DA PAM, and STP each mean, how the numbers are built, and why the difference between doctrine and policy decides how you cite it.

The Army's operational concept: multidomain operations

Multidomain operations is the Army's operational concept. It replaced unified land operations, which means a lot of study material written before 2025 is teaching a superseded framework.

The four things Army forces do: offense, defense, stability, DSCA

The four operations Army forces conduct, the subordinate types under offense and defense, and a note on the terminology that changed with the 2025 doctrine revision.

The leadership requirements model

ADP 6-22 describes what a leader must be and what a leader must do: three attributes of character, presence, and intellect, and ten competencies grouped under leads, develops, and achieves.

CRM

Composite Risk Management

METT-TC

Mission, enemy, terrain and weather, troops and support available, time available, civil considerations

TRADOC

United States Army Training and Doctrine Command