1966 US Army Vietnam War ARMOR ... - Survival Books

WWW.SURVIVALEBOOKS.COMwith the type landing craft that can normally in shore-to-shore movements will reduce thebe expected to be used for a shore-to-shore supplementary shore-based and ship-basedmovement.training required for participation in an amb.The attainment of a high state of training phibious attack.Section XIII.INTERNAL DEFENSE OPERATIONS407. General to protect a base, may produce movement ina. Internal defense operations are conducted entirely different directions than those anticibya host country or its allies directly against pated. Having developed multiple base areas,armed insurgents, their underground organiza- insurgent forces may move in any direction totion, support system, external sanctuary, or an offensive maneuver and still not sacrifice itsoutside supporting power. The ultimate objec- logistical support capabilities. Insurgent tactitivein combating armed insurgency is to eliminatethe causes behind the insurgency and tocal forces will not normally be committed tolimited and general battlefield arrangementsprevent its recurrence. Tactical operations byarmor units against insurgent forces may beuntil a defeat of friendly force is a certaintyand their defeat will affect the entire internalconducted over vast areas. The operational defense effort.plans must anticipate the difficulties of control c. The insurgent tactical forces' missions areand combat service support. Most important aimed at subversion and the overthrow of anwill be the complete integration of armor into established government. The rear area guerriltheoverall operation being conducted in a par- la in a limited or general war environment isticular area, for example, region, province, and mainly concerned with the harassment ofdistrict. This may entail support of U.S. or friendly forces. Operations of armor units inhost country tactical units in tactical opera- internal defense may include the following mations,support of receiving state police agencies jor areas of activity:in internal security operations, assisting host (1) Tactical operations against insurgentcountry forces in military civic action, or con-irregular, paramilitary, and armedducting these operations independently as partforces which are employing guerrillaof the overall clear, hold, and consolidationwarfare. This type of warfare is conoperationin a particular area.ducted predominantly by irregularb. The concepts, tactics, techniques, and and paramilitary organizations inprocedures for the tactical employment of ar-phases II and III of insurgency. Guermorunits contained in this field manual basi-rilla warfare constitutes sustainedcally apply to internal defense operations.combat operations which are conduct-However, they must be adjusted to fit the par-ed and supported within hostile territicularoperational environment. The organiza-tory and utilize tactics characterizedtion and characteristics of the insurgent by surprise, brief violent action, andbattlefield does not resemble that found in lim-elusiveness. These operations may alitedor general war situations. The area be-so be supported, in varying degrees,tween insurgent forces or their principalby an external source. Communist ledsources of supply do not usually present lucra-insurgent movements employing guertivemilitary targets. Insurgent supply installa-rilla warfare are not merely uncoortionsare small, dispersed, and difficult to locate dinated, hostile bands of poorlyand destroy. Caches, insurgent safe areas, andequipped insurgents. Rather, in thesympathetic or dominated populations may bemodern sense, guerrilla warfare is aso universally dispersed that insurgent unitswell developed form of war where theare not dependent on a few critical logisticalguerrilla, when conditions are favorabases.Under these conditions, a turning move-ble, can fight a conventional type batment,for example, launched by friendly forcestie using regular formations supportintendedto cause the insurgent force to reacted by heavy weapons.218