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DATE: MONDAY, June 14, 1993                   TAG: 9306140154
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Medium

ARMY ISSUES NEW MARCHING ORDERS FOR NEW WORLD ORDER

The new guide also points out the fact that operations such as the peacekeeping mission to Macedonia or the cleanup after Hurricane Andrew are the wave of the future for the Pentagon's largest military service.

Almost two years in the works, the publication - dubbed FM-105 Operations in Army lingo - is to be unveiled today by its architect, Gen. Frederick Franks, head of the Army's Training and Doctrine Command, and Gen. Gordon Sullivan, the Army chief of staff.

Franks, the commander who led the Army's VII Corps on its famed "Left Hook" into the Iraqi Republican Guard during the Persian Gulf War, began the revisions soon after returning from the gulf in March 1991.

The four-star general says the centerpiece of the document is "how we think about fighting our nation's wars and conducting operations other than war."

No longer focused on battling the Warsaw Pact nations in central Europe, the Army must be able to "mix and match" its forces for operations ranging from counter-narcotic actions in South and Central America to wars like those in the Persian Gulf or Panama, Franks says. But the new guide deals with much more.

An entire chapter focuses the military's doctrine for the first time on such things as peacekeeping missions, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, riot control and relations with nations in need of democratic assistance.

The new doctrine also declares, "the Army will not operate alone," stressing that cooperation among the military services will be the hallmark of future operations.

Given the military's budget and size constraints, the Army has decided it must focus on "power projection," - the ability to move troops quickly to a variety of jobs around the world. While it took more than two months to put three heavy divisions into Saudi Arabia, the Army's new goal is to deploy the same number of troops the same distance, but in half the time.

In a speech last month before the Boston World Affairs Council, Sullivan noted that while the public sees the highly publicized use of stealth weapons in the Gulf War as the prelude to a new way of waging war, combat in Panama actually will serve as the prototype.

"What we did in Panama was in many respects more sophisticated than our success in the desert," Sullivan said. "In my judgment, our ability to conduct simultaneous, synchronized attacks on multiple [targets] using complementary military forces of all services represents the dawn of a new age in warfare."