Army Techniques Publication Atp 3 075 Stability Techniques August 2012

This publication, Army Techniques Publication ATP 3-21.11 SBCT Infantry Rifle Company February 2016, discusses the techniques used by the Infantry rifle company while conducting missions. These are techniques and are not prescriptive. Mission, enemy, terrain and weather, troops and support available, time available, and civil considerations (METT-TC) condition will dictate how the company commander accomplishes his tasks. This manual provides the commander and his subordinates with an array of methods that can be used or modified. ATP 3-21.11 has eight chapters and one appendix. The chapters consist of an organizational chapter and a chapter on offense, defense, and stability operations. Throughout the chapters, tactical enabling operations are included in the discussions. The chapters and the appendix use examples and illustrations to show techniques that can be used. Doctrine is included only to the extent of understanding the context and relationships between techniques. This manual incorporates the significant changes in Army doctrinal terminology, concepts, constructs, and proven tactics developed during recent operations. Chapter 1 - Organization addresses the organizational characteristics of the SBCT Infantry rifle company as optimized and trained to conduct offensive and defensive tasks, and operations in support of stability to function across the range of military operations. Chapter 1 describes the organization and mission of the company, each of its subordinate elements as well as the duties and responsibilities of its key leaders. Chapter 2 - Offense discusses offensive actions to destroy, defeat, or neutralize the enemy. The chapter addresses the characteristics of a SBCT Infantry rifle company offense and describes the movement to contact, attack tasks, and considerations when participating in exploitation, and pursuit. Chapter 3 - Defense discusses defensive actions to defeat enemy attacks, buy time, control key terrain, protect critical infrastructure, secure the population, and economize forces. The chapter addresses SBCT Infantry rifle company defense characteristics and describes the three defensive tasks: area defense, mobile defense, and retrograde. Chapter 4 - Stability addresses support to operations focused on stability tasks. This chapter encompasses various military missions, tasks, and activities conducted outside the United States in coordination with other instruments of national power. Chapter 5 - Sustainment discusses the process for combat trains that the SBCT Infantry rifle company use to anticipate their needs. Discusses the placement of key sustainment personnel at locations throughout the SBCT footprint. Chapter 6 - Augmenting Combat Power provides techniques for the integration and synchronization of warfighting functions as enablers to enhance the conduct of operations, Chapter 6 includes discussions on- Fires. Protection. Aviation. Military information support operations (MISO). Special operation forces (SOF). Civil affairs. Chapter 7 - Enabling Operations provides the enabling tasks and activities into one chapter. It includes details in the supporting tasks that occur before, during, and after decisive action. Chapter 7 also addresses the following- Assembly areas. Reconnaissance. Security. Patrols. Relief in place. Passage of lines. Linkup. Combined arms breaching and gap. Troop movement. Chapter 8 - Direct Fire Planning and Control provides guidance for planning and integration of the direct fire weapon systems used by the Stryker Infantry rifle company to engage targets. Provides techniques for weapon employment, rates and patterns of fire. Appendix A - Breaching Using MGS gives detail information on how the Stryker Infantry rifle company breaches structures using the mobile gun system (MGS). This technique requires the Infantry and MGS working in direct coordination with one another to accomplish their common goal.