FM 46-1 Army Public Affairs Operations MAY 1997 - FM 46-1...

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FM 46-1
Field Manual
FM 46-1
Headquarters
Department of the Army
Washington, DC, 30 May 1997
Public Affairs Operations
Contents
PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 1 PUBLIC AFFAIRS ENVIRONMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Information Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Information Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Commanders and Public Affairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 2 PUBLIC AFFAIRS PRINCIPLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Principles of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Public Affairs Principles. . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 3 PUBLIC AFFAIRS CORE PROCESSES . . . . . . . . . . 20
Public Affairs Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Information Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Media Facilitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Public Affairs Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Community Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Chapter 4 PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND ARMY OPERATIONS . . . . . 29
Levels of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Tenets of Army Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Elements of Combat Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Force Projection Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Multinational Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Joint Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Sustaining Base Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
* This publication supersedes FM 46-1, 23 July 1992.
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Chapter 5 STABILITY AND SUPPORT OPERATIONS . . . . . . . . . 40
Support to Diplomacy ........... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Noncombatant Evacuations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Domestic Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Chapter 6 PERSONNEL AND ORGANIZATIONS .. . . . . . . . . ...... 45
Personnel ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Organizations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Chapter 7 EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT OF PA FORCES . . . . . 56
Employment of PA units ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Required Support ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
APPENDIX A DoD PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION ........... 62
APPENDIX B COVERAGE OF DoD OPERATIONS ............................... 63
APPENDIX C PUBLIC AFFAIRS ANNEX ............................................... 64
APPENDIX D PUBLIC AFFAIRS ESTIMATE .......................................... 66
APPENDIX E MEDIA GROUND RULES ................................................. 69
GLOSSARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
I NDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74

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The PA Mission
Public Affairs fulfills the Army’s obligation to keep the American people and the
Army informed, and helps to establish the conditions that lead to confidence in
America’s Army and its readiness to conduct operations in peacetime, conflict and
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Preface
Our vision is to build a trained, readily
deployable force of Public Affairs professionals,
resourced, capable and organized to conduct
operations in peace, conflict and war, and to
maintain a timely flow of accurate, balanced
information to the American people.
F
ield Manual 46-1 is the keystone doctrinal manual
for U.S. Army Public Affairs operations. It focuses
on how the Army thinks about public affairs and de-
scribes public affairs roles, missions, capabilities and
organizations for the active Army, U.S. Army Reserve
and Army National Guard. It also describes public af-
fairs employment, command and control, and support
across the operational continuum.
This manual is the basis for Public Affairs force
design and materiel acquisition. It supports the doctri-
nal requirements of the Concept Based Requirements
System and is the authoritative foundation for the in-
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tegration of
Public Affairs
into Army doc-
trine, individual
and unit train-
ing, leader de-
v e l o p m e n t ,
force design
and materiel ac-
quisition initia-
tives. FM 46-1
is directly
linked to, and must be used in conjunction with FM
100-5, FM 100-6, TRADOC PAM 525-5 and Joint
Publication 1-07.