2007 U.S. Military Documents: Convoy Survivability Training Support Package

This unique ring-bound book provides a reproduction of the important new publicly released Defense Department document, the Convoy Survivability Training Support Package (TSP) . The TSP contains enemy tactics, techniques, and procedures currently in use in Iraq for attacking convoys, as well as U.S. measures in effect to counter them. Specific areas of instruction include but are not limited to hardening vehicles, defending against attack, consolidation and reorganization, gun truck employment, various reports, battle drills, and basic instructions for setting up a convoy live fire exercise. The document states in part: "During this course of instruction you will learn to: Identify the threat; harden vehicles; conduct convoy briefing; execute motor movement; defend against attack; defend against Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) ; conduct convoy consolidation and reorganization; conduct actions at the Release Point (RP) ; describe the purpose and functions of the gun truck; identify gun truck crew duties; harden gun trucks; employ gun trucks; identify emerging enemy trends on the battlefield. The arrival of the Twenty-first Century brought with it a different way of doing business on the battlefield. This style of warfare, known as the Contemporary Operational Environment, or COE, will be the mode in which the United States Army fights for many years to come. COE is an asymmetric environment, meaning that one side is well manned, well-organized, and well-equipped, while the other side consists of an irregular guerrilla force incapable of fighting a conventional battle with any hope of victory. In the COE a guerrilla force snaps at the heels of its enemy, harassing, attacking soft targets, and doing as much damage as possible before melting back into the local population. This enemy hopes to prevail not through military force, but by turning public opinion against the war and thereby forcing the other side to give up and go home. The primary threat in Iraq and Afghani