Abstract
This paper deals with the use of military symbology in accordance with the current standard of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) APP–6C from 2012. It analyses the current state of the topic, especially the available resources dedicated to military symbology and schemes of tactical activities of units. The paper defines the procedures and principles in creating tactical symbols and principles for their use in tactical situations. One of the annexes of is an overview of the most common tactical symbols, which provides a standardized, structured set of graphic symbols identifying the most common units, equipment, lines, areas and maneuvers with respect to the current state of the Army of the Czech Republic. This examination also provides the user, through the presentation of MS Office, a comprehensive overview of tactical symbols, as well as short instructions for their use. These symbols can also be removed from the presentation and can be used by the user as the necessary basis for creating one’s own diagrams of tactical situations. The next part of this thesis deals with the design of new variants of schemes selected for use in tactical operations of a battalion task force. This schema set is available to the user as well in a presentation of MS Office. Individual schemes are drawn to ensure the required clarity and so this presentation can be used for teaching and by students. This work is a learning tool which can be used by students of The University of Defense especially in subjects like Tactics of Units and Tactics of Formations and, other fields of study as well as in military practices of the units of the Army of the Czech Republic (ACR).
Highlights
The basic purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of the knowledge of creation and use of military symbology in the current operating environment.It is not intended to provide an exhaustive treatise on the issue of military symbology
The aim is primarily to acquaint the reader with the issue of military symbology under a general framework and with available documents dealing with military symbology
In the part of analysis, dedicated to the available resources on the field of military symbology, this work came to the conclusion that at the present time in the environment of the Army of the Czech Republic (ACR) there is only one current document — APP–6C, which, is still not available in Czech translation
Summary
The basic purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of the knowledge of creation and use of military symbology in the current operating environment. It is not intended to provide an exhaustive treatise on the issue of military symbology. The most important part of this work is to create a file of the most common site of military symbols, which will serve both for teaching, as well as a database usable when creating custom schemas of tactical situations. The other part is an album of schemas of battalion task forces in selected tactical activities.
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