This monograph probes a very narrow band of Army doctrine--the wheeled vehicle convoy--by asking if that doctrine is versatile enough for the unique challenges of OOTW. The paper focuses on the more dangerous end of the OOTW spectrum, where convoys operate in peril. The monograph format is as follows. Section I introduces the monograph and describes the paper's methodology. Section II describes the quiet history of the convoy in conventional, linear warfare. Section III explains why the OOTW environment characterized by the Bosnia and Somalia imbroglios is the most dangerous environment for future American convoys. Section IV explains why a maritime theorist, Sir Julian Corbett, provides insight for operating convoys in OOTW. Section V illustrates why American convoy experience in Vietnam offers a pertinent model for future convoy operations. Section VI checks the versatility of wheeled vehicle convoy doctrine in light of six specific challenges of OOTW. This paper offers six principles which should undergird a new convoy doctrine. The paper responds to the army's formal doctrinal expansion into OOTW signaled by the 1993 version of FM 100-5 Operations and concludes that convoy doctrine must expand accordingly.

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