djvu FM 1-04 Legal Support to Operations: Pocket Size

FM 1-04 Legal Support to Operations
Pocket Size (5 half by 8 half) Really small.

This manual establishes a foundation for Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAGC) personnel to build upon to provide principled counsel and mission focused legal support to the operational Army. It establishes an understanding of the roles and responsibilities that JAGC personnel have both between different legal offices at different levels of command and between the legal section and the staff of the supported command; all in support of the commander and the Army.

The purpose of this manual is to assist commanders and judge advocates in assigning roles and responsibilities for legal support in the unique areas of operations encountered in this era of persistent conflict. This manual is not intended to provide detailed guidance on every situation that judge advocates will encounter in a deployed environment whether overseas or within the United States. That is not the goal. Just as Army leaders and forces must respond to a broad range of threats under conditions of uncertainty by exercising operational adaptability to accomplish missions, so too must judge advocates.

Operational adaptability requires judge advocates, legal administrators, and paralegal specialists to understand the situation in width, depth, and context, and then to assist the command by providing sound legal advice and support across the core legal disciplines. Every operation is different, and each one requires its own unique legal support. As such, commanders and judge advocates will have to work together to task-organize legal support for operations in a way that makes sense and helps accomplish the mission.

This edition of FM 1-04 provides doctrine on legal support across the range of operations and the provision of legal support in specific types or aspects of operations. The appendixes supplement the chapters of this manual.

Chapter 1 discusses the Judge Advocate General’s Corps mission, roles, and principles, introduces core legal competencies and legal functions, and examines the role of legal services personnel.

Chapter 2 summarizes Army operations and provides guidance on their legal support. It addresses the shift from limited contingency operations to large-scale combat operations, the importance of the multi-domain battle concept, and joint operations. The chapter then discusses the Army operational concept, operational framework, and Army echelons and units. Finally, the chapter addresses the capabilities, combat power, and the operations process and planning that enable the Army to support joint operations.

Chapter 3 describes where Judge Advocate Legal Services (JALS) personnel are assigned supporting Army operations, discusses the roles and responsibilities of JALS personnel, outlines the primary doctrinal missions of the legal sections, and identifies resources necessary to provide legal support at various echelons.

Chapter 4 provides a detailed description of the four legal functions supporting the Army as an institution. They include administrative and civil law, contract and fiscal law, military justice, and national security law.

Chapter 5 discusses the core legal competency of providing legal support to Soldiers and Families and its subordinate legal functions and tasks. This chapter covers these topics with a focus on legal support during large-scale combat operations, rear detachment operations, and maintaining installation services.