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. This ADP 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.
NOTES: Some references listed in this doc might have been superseded and/or updated and should be checked for accuracy, which can be easily done using the DA PAM 25-30 web page or downloaded and installed program for checking current and superseded DOD publications (For example purposes only: FM 3-0 was superseded by ADP 3-0, on 10 October 2011) : This document is in PDF format
