Unified Land Operations

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SUBJECT: Unified Land Operations

1. Purpose: To Provide an overview on Unified Land Operations

2. Facts:

a. The idea of Army policy is to seize, retain, and exploit the initiative to gain and maintain a position of advantage in sustained land operations. The new operating concept is Unified Land Operations.

b. The introduction to the Unified Land Operation (2011) changed from the AirLand Battle (1982-1993) and uses many of the full range operations within capabilities as fundamental to a successful Army operations.

c. The influence of full-dimension operations on future policies is apparent in the presence of a similar term-full spectrum operations (2001-2011) as the Army’s next clear operating concept.

d. The writer of Unified Land

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