FM 1-20: MILITARY HISTORY OPERATIONS

Official US Army Field Manual in Acrobat PDF file format.Field Manual (FM) 1–20, Military History Operations, is applicable to all Army military history offices, military history units, and military history operations of major tactical and support commands generally at corps level and below. FM 1–20 provides basic doctrine describing the roles, relationships, organizations, and responsibilities of Army component command historians, historians, unit historical officers, and military history detachment (MHD) members in the United States Army. It describes, but does not extensively cover, historians and historical offices of units at echelons above corps and at the joint level. It is designed to provide historians, unit historical officers, commanders, and staffs the methods to preserve and document the history of the U.S. Army. It explains how the Army conducts military history operations during wartime, for both deployed forces in the combat theater and those units supporting the operat