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Article: Fires TTP to defeat the COE OPFOR.(contemporary operational environment)(tactics, techniques and procedures)
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- FA Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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In a short time, the term "contemporary operational environment" (COE) has become a buzzword that many misunderstand. The COE is the environment in which the new opposing force (OPFOR) operates. Fortunately, the FM 7-100 series of manuals that explains the COE and the OPFOR fighting in that environment have been signed and should be distributed to the field sometime during the 2d Quarter of FY03. (See the figure.)
So what is the COE? Instead of referring to the book definition in FM 7-100, one can look out the window or turn on the news. The world we live in is the COE, and we hear and read about real-world threats daily. The mission of the OPFORs at the Combat ...