by Buck Carroll (Author)
With countless guides available for download and purchase, it is often difficult to quantify the criteria for the perfect reference manual. Most manuals provided doctrinal information, separated by lengthy filler prose, in order to create a 200-300 page document. Each of these manuals typically contains two or three valuable pages that the user dog-ears. The purpose of this guide is to break the mold of the stereotypical guide. The information provided is condensed and specifically chosen for its utility. In addition, all doctrinal information is current and has the reference. The main purpose of this guide is to consolidate commonly used military information, doctrinal and non-doctrinal, for planning and place it in a guide that could fit in a cargo pocket. This second edition has been updated to include NATO design, concise explanations of planning methods and system theory, and streamlined tables.