ADP 3-37 Protection (2024. 1. 10.)

Description

This publication supersedes ADP 3-37, dated 31 JULY 2019.

Preface

ADP 3-37 expands on doctrine for protection described in the Army capstone manual ADP 3-0. It describes how Army forces at every echelon employ protection. The primary focus of ADP 3-37 is on how commanders and staffs integrate, synchronize, and employ protection capabilities and proactive measures to prevent or mitigate detection, threat effects, and hazards. Effective protection preserves combat power and enables freedom of action.

ADP 3-37 is applicable to all members of the profession of arms: leaders, Soldiers, and Army civilians. The principal audience for ADP 3-37 is commanders and staffs within theater armies, corps, divisions, and brigades. This publication provides the foundation for training, curricula, and future capabilities development across doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, facilities, and policy.

To comprehend the doctrine contained in ADP 3-37, readers must first understand the Army mission, organization, and roles described in ADP 1. They must understand the operations process, operational art, and other warfighting functions (command and control, intelligence, fires, movement and maneuver, and sustainment) described in ADP 3-0. Readers must understand Army operations discussed in FM 3-0, tactics described in ADP 3-90, and stability operations covered in ADP 3-07.

Army leaders must understand joint doctrine and use it when communicating and coordinating directly with the joint force. Prerequisite reading of joint doctrine includes JP 3-0. When conducting multinational operations, readers must be familiar with FM 3-16. AJP-01 establishes the capstone doctrine for North Atlantic Treaty Organization military operations, and AJP-3.14 establishes allied joint doctrine for force protection.

ADP 3-37 uses joint terms where applicable. Selected joint and Army terms and definitions appear in both the glossary and the text. Terms for which ADP 3-37 is the proponent publication (the authority) are italicized in the text and are marked with an asterisk (*) in the glossary. Terms and definitions for which ADP 3-37 is the proponent publication are boldfaced and italicized, and the definitions are boldfaced. For other definitions shown in the text, the term is italicized, and the number of the proponent publication follows the definition. Commanders, staffs, and subordinates ensure that their decisions and actions comply with all applicable United States, international, and host-nation laws and regulations and with all applicable international treaties and agreements. Commanders at all levels ensure that their Soldiers operate in accordance with the law of armed conflict and applicable rules of engagement. (See FM 6-27.) They also adhere to the Army Ethic as described in ADP 6-22.

The proponent of ADP 3-37 is the Maneuver Support Center of Excellence (MSCOE). The preparing agency is the Fielded Force Integration Directorate (FFID), Doctrine Division, Maneuver Support Center of Excellence.