Tactics
Series: FMFM -- 1-3.; Fleet Marine Force manual -- 1-3.
Publisher: U.S. Marine Corps
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Handbooks, manuals; Tactics; Military art and science; United States. Marine Corps; United States
Description: "This manual is designed for all tactical leaders ... Tactics is consonant with FMFM 1, Warfighting, and FMFM 1-1, Campaigning. It presumes an understanding of the warfighting philosophy, applying it specifically to the tactical level. Like FMFM 1, it is not prescriptive but descriptive, providing guidance in the form of concepts and values. This manual illustrates a philosophy for waging war and winning combat." -- pages [i-ii].
Notes: Cover title.

"1 June 1991" -- page [i].

Superseded by MCDP 1-3, Tactics, dated 30 July 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-109).

Also available online from the Internet Archive.  Address as of May 1, 2014: https://archive.org/details/tactics00unse_0
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1. Achieving a decision. Antietam ; Cannae ; Understanding decisiveness ; How to achieve a decision ; Conceptualizing the battlefield ; Coup d'Oeil ; The focus of effort ; Intent and mission ; Summary; title: 2. Gaining leverage. Leverage ; Asymmetry ; Ambush ; Maneuver ; Building on advantage ; Summary; title: 3. Trapping the enemy. A new order ; Pincers ; Combined arms ; Surprise ; Uncertainty and deception ; Summary; title: 4. Moving faster. Speed in combat ; What is speed? ; Speed and time ; Timing ; Relative speed ; Continuous speed ; Speed and change ; Becoming faster ; Summary; title: 5. Cooperating. Control in combat? ; Cooperation ; Discipline ; Summary; title: 6. Making it happen. Training ; Professional reading and historical study ; Exercises ; Competition ; Critiques ; Summary.