The Army Doctrine hierarchy contains a series of capstone publications,
which provide doctrine to support the employment of a range
of capabilities across the modern battlespace.
LWD 1 – The Fundamentals of Land Warfare 2002, and LWD
2-0 – Intelligence 2001, were the first two of these published.
Two further capstone publications are now close to issuing.
Because of the critical nature of combat service support doctrine,
the Commandant ALTC made the decision to produce LWD 4-0 –
Combat Service Support as a priority. Commander Training Command,
Maj-Gen Ian Gordon, endorsed LWD 4-0 on June 19. The book is
currently with the printers and should be available on ADEL
and in hardcopy shortly.
As LWD 4-0 is subordinate to LWD 1, it was important that the
philosophical doctrinal tenets of LWD 1 were distilled into
LWD 4-0 – Combat Service Support. LWD 4-0 provides combat
service support doctrine derived from fundamental warfighting
concepts and is applicable to the sustainment of operations
as described in LWD 1 and LWD
3-0 – Operations. LWD 4-0 provides a suitable foundation
for the subsequent development of subordinate combat service
support doctrine.
LWD 4-0 describes the nature and scope of effective combat service
support to land operations and provides a doctrinal framework
for the provision of combat service support at the operational
and tactical levels. It describes and supports the doctrinal
tenets of:
