Marine Air Ground Task Force Doctrine

This Fleet Marine Force Manual (FMFM) sets forth the organization, doctrine, tactics, and techniques to be used in the formation and employment of Marine air-ground task forces (MAFTF's).--p. i.

The Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) is the organizational structure that the Marine Corps will continue to use to task organize forces. The Marine Corps must prepare doctrine to meet the challenges and opportunities that Information Operations (IO) offers. The challenges and opportunities of IO are only now beginning to be defined by the Marine Corps. Currently, there is no Marine Corps doctrine to assist MAGTF personnel in the conduct of offensive IO. This thesis proposes thirteen doctrinal principles for the employment of the elements of offensive IO for a forward deployed MAGTF operating in a littoral, unformed or developing operational environment. These proposed doctrinal principles support Operational Maneuver From the Sea and provide a link between the 1998 Marine Corps Concept Paper A Concept for Information Operations and actual operating procedures. These proposed doctrinal principles are more specific than current Joint doctrine. This thesis also proposes several recommendations for the implementation of these principles into procedure. The documentary (historical) method and the case studies, based on successful historical examples of operations in the littorals from World War II to the present, are used.

Marine Air-Ground Task Force Information Operations, operationalizes the Marine Corps Operating Concept for Information Operations. This publication contains doctrine for employment of the various information-related capabilities integrated as information operations in support of the Marine air-ground task force (MAGTF). The purpose of this publication is to provide MAGTF commanders and their staffs guidance in planning, preparing, executing, and assessing information operations in support of the MAGTF's operational objectives. It gives Marines a warfighter's orientation to information operations, providing a basis to understand the relevance of information operations and a framework to implement information operations.

Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 2, Intelligence, and Marine Corps Warfighting Publication 2-1, Intelligence Operations, provide doctrine and tactics, techniques, and procedures for intelligence operations. Marine Corps Warfighting Publication (MCWP) 2-4 Marine Air-Ground Task Force Intelligence Dissemination, complements and expands upon this information by detailing specific doctrine, tactics, techniques, and procedures for conducting intelligence dissemination in support of the Marine air-ground task force (MAGTF). The primary target audience of this publication is intelligence personnel responsible for planning and executing intelligence dissemination operations, as well as personnel who provide support to intelligence dissemination or who use results from intelligence operations. MCWP 2-4 describes aspects of intelligence dissemination operations including doctrinal fundamentals, responsibilities, management, methodology and planning, and common forms of dissemination, such as estimates, studies, briefings, and reports. MCWP 2-4 provides the information needed by Marines to understand, plan, and execute intelligence dissemination operations in support of the MAGTF across the range of military operations.

The manual describes the general strategy for the U.S. Marines but it is beneficial for not only every Marine to read but concepts on leadership can be gathered to lead a business to a family. If you want to see what make Marines so effective this book is a good place to start.

Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication, Intelligence, and Marine Corps Warfighting publication, Intelligence Operations, provide doctrine and tactics, techniques, and procedures for intelligence operations.

Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) is a term used by the United States Marine Corps to describe the principal organization for all missions across the range of military operations. MAGTFs have long provided the United States with a broad spectrum of response options when US and allied interests have been threatened, and in non-combat situations that require critical response. With over 150 images, this book explores the history and deployments of the MAGTF from its inception to present day.

Marine Corps Warfighting Publication MCWP 3-31 (Formerly MCWP 3-43.3) Marine Air-Ground Task Force Fires 2 May 2016, sets forth the doctrine for fire support in Marine air-ground task force (MAGTF) operations. This publication applies to all MAGTFs; however, its focus is at the Marine expeditionary force level. Smaller MAGTFs will differ in scope and scale, but, regardless of size, MAGTFs plan and execute the function of fires using the same basic precepts provided in this publication. This publication supersedes Fleet Marine Force Manual (FMFM) 2-7.1, Fire Support Coordination by the MAGTF Command Element, July 1992, and MCWP 3-43.3 (formerly FMFM 2-7), Fire Support in Marine Air-Ground Task Force Operations, September 1991.