ADP 3-19, Fires, dated July 2019

This publication constitutes the Army’s view on fires. Fires are a warfighting function. Fires are essential to the effective conduct of operations. Through fires, commanders initiate and integrate all fires systems and actions toward a common goal—mission accomplishment. Fires is the use of weapons systems to create specific lethal or nonlethal effects on a target (JP 3-0).

ADP 3-19 incorporates air and missile defense (AMD) and electronic attack (EA) in the Army fires warfighting function. Expanding on the Army’s fires warfighting function, the term fires now includes fires from other services, Air Defense Artillery fires and Field Artillery fires. This document  was crafted to provide Fires doctrine that enables the development of interoperable, networked, and integrated systems capable of executing multiple missions throughout unified action.

ADP 3-19 is crafted to support and guide the Army’s strategy in evolving as the world’s most versatile fires force, with agile and adaptive Soldiers and leaders; fielded with integrated and interoperable systems; and capable of delivering accurate and responsive fires with precision in any environment at any time.

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