IMPLEMENTAREA UNEI DOCTRINE A SPRIJINULUI PRIN FOC DE NIVEL ÎNTRUNIT – CERINȚĂ A OPERAȚIEI ÎNTRUNITE

Abstract

Implementing a Joint Fire Support Doctrine – Requirement for the Joint OperationAbstract: In this paper we wanted to highlight the importance of developing and implementing in the Romanian Army a jointfire support doctrine that will serve as foundation for common and coherent understanding of specific concepts and terminology forfire support in every branch of the armed forces. The unitary approach and understanding of these concepts constitute a fundamentalneed to provide timely, integrated and synchronized fire support in a joint operation.Although, at Land Forces level, “F.T.-6 – Fire support manual for group force operations” was developed in 2018, and comprisesfire support fundamentals, this manual cannot be sufficient and, in our opinion, a dedicated norm that implements fire support specificprinciples, tactics, techniques and procedures at every armed force branch is required, for responsible personnel with fire support andalso with joint targeting, no matter what force structures are generated for the joint operation. In order to achieve this requirement,we believe it is necessary to develop a dedicated doctrine at the highest national military authority regarding joint fire support, inorder to implement fire support fundamentals in every army branch of the Romanian Army – aspects that currently exist in the landforces manual, as every army branch can contribute with force structures or specialized elements to providing fire support in a jointoperation.