Concepts describe how future operations are to be conducted by the various levels of command during war, conflict, and peacetime competition. Doctrine writers combat developers, and trainers use them to develop their various programs. This pamphlet sets forth AirLand Operations for a Strategic Army -- the operational level umbrella concept describing how Army forces will operate in the future as a land component of an air, land, and sea power in joint, combined, and interagency operations. This concept is unique. AirLand Operations has been accepted by the Tactical Air Command for the development of joint operational procedures, Army and Tactical Air Forces doctrine, and the Army and Air Force air attack action plan for joint warfighting on future battlefields. This concept builds upon the strengths of AirLand Battle and evolves it toward the future. It also incorporates applicable joint and combined insights from Operation Desert Shield/Storm where army and air forces worked closely together. The US Army and the US Air Force will be called upon more often to participate in power projection operations across the operational continuum. AirLand Operations sets the general azimuth for evolution of doctrine, organization, training, materiel, and leader development by both services. In itself, this concept represents no specific decisions by either service on any requirements for the future. Those decisions will be greatly influenced by the concepts set forth in this pamphlet, but will be made one by one in the appropriate service forums.

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See also HRC2 300.5 AirLand Operations Pamphlet 13 June 1991