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BULLETIN PURPOSE/STRUCTURE

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This bulletin provides insights, lessons learned, and techniques for corps/division commanders and staff. This material is drawn from trends that have emerged from corps and division exercises worldwide and the initial iterations of the BCTP. The bulletin is structured to focus on the seven battlefield operating systems (BOS).

CORPS/DIVISION OPERATIONS

The advent of AirLand Battle doctrine, first published in 1982 in FM 100-5, Operations, and further explained in the current FM dated May 1986, places emphasis on corps and division operations. How does a corps or division operate on the modern battlefield? What organizations are required for effective command and control of the massive combat power available to these units? What systems and functions must corps and division synchronize to apply their combat power? What is the most effective battle staff organization and command post structure? Answers to these questions are beginning to surface.

NEW DOCTRINE

FM 71-100, Division Operations, and FM 100-15, Corps Operations, written at the Command and General Staff College and distributed this year, are the capstone manuals for division and corps operations. They are designed to assist commanders, their staffs, and subordinate commanders in planning and conducting combat operations.

BCTP

Until recently, the Army has not had a Combat Training Center for division and corps. The absence of this environment for large organizations is most manifest in the areas of combined arms operations and synchronization of combat operations. To fill this need, the Battle Command Training Program (BCTP) was established to provide a CTC-like training environment for division and corps commanders, staffs, and major subordinates.

The goal of the Battle Command Training Program is to enhance the combat proficiency and capability of staffs at divisions and corps. BCTP seeks to do this by providing every active and reserve component division commander and corps commander the opportunity to train themselves, their staffs and subordinates under conditions that approximate the stress of battle. During the conduct of battle command training, units have the opportunity to receive an objective review of their application of the AirLand Battle tenets: agility, initiative, depth and synchronization.

Table of Contents
Preface
Historical Perspective