AUSA News - April 2008 

What likely was “the most reviewed and vetted manual since Airland Battle,” FM 3.0 Operations officially debuted Feb. 28, and the Army described its “impact on the force and the application of the doctrine is likely to be revolutionary.”

When the Army publishes in a few months its new manual on training, it “will be evolutionary” and in “parallel with 3.0,” the recently released operations publication.

The chief of staff of the Army told the Senate Armed Services Committee the Army plans to cut tours in Iraq from 15 months to 12 in July as the drawdown of forces from a surge high of 20 brigade combat teams drops to 15.

“Your Army has not taken a knee” in combat operations, base realignment and closure, modernization and transformation since the fall of the Berlin Wall almost 20 years ago, the Army’s vice chief of staff told attendees...