Battlespace operating system (BOS)  Armour

combination of personnel, collective b. Air Manoeuvre

training, equipment, facilities and
command and management –  Aviation
organised, supported and employed to (1) Deep Op – Activities
perform a designate function as part of a conducted in deep areas.
whole.
(a) Area fwd of close
Battlespace area (fm fwd bdry of sub
Includes the air, land, sea, space, units to fwd bdry of
enemy and friendly forces, facilities, controlling ech)
weather, terrain, the electromagnetic (b) Typically ops in
spectrum and the information here are used to SHAPE
environment within the area of operation the en to set conditions for
and area of interest. close battle
Fighting Power (2) Close Op – Those
1. The capacity to fight and win. The activities which involve friendly
elements are: forces in direct contact with the
enemy.
 Intellectual
(a) Where forces are in
 Morale
immediate contact with the
 Physical
en
Battlespace Operating Systems
(b) Fighting between
1. Capacity elms committed forces and
reserves of both
 Personnel combatants is occurring
 Equipment
 Doctrine (c) Close combat
 Training through mnvr and fires
 Logistic (d) Area where
 Organisation Decisive Ops occur
 Leadership
(3) Rear Op – Activities
The Army’s Bos conducted in rear areas. Increase
the overall depth of operation and
1. Manoeuvre. provide the resources to vary the
tempo of operations.
a. Ground Manoeuvre
(a) Extends fm rear
 Inf
bdry fwd to rear bdry of
 Tks and Mech Inf next lower level of comd
 (b) Area primarily for › Rear – Can be an effective
conduct of sp functions rear area security element
and is where majority of but will require dedicated
the echelon’s sustaining moblity assets.
ops occur
› CSS – Comparatively
(c) Activity to assure small admin reqmt and do
freedom of action and not require extensive
continuity of ops, log and admin sp.
comd
c. Consideration.

(1) Strengths.

(2) Limitation.

2. Fire Support (FS).

Collective and coordinated use of

indirect fire weapon, armed
aircraft and other lethal and non-
lethal means in sp of a
maoueuvre plan.

a. Field Artillery.

b. Mortars.

(4) CSS – The essential c. Electronic Warfare (EW).

capabilities, functions, activities
d. Naval Gun Support (NGS).
and tasks necessary to sustain all
elements of operating forces in e. Offensive Air Support (OAS).
theatre at all levels of war.
(1) Close Air Support.
b. Infantry.
(2) Battlespace Air
› Deep – Do not normally Interdiction (BAI).
have the inherent
capability to conduct deep f. Army Aviation.
op.

› Close – Traditionally, have

been the mainstay of the
close battle but this is
changing due to the
enhanced lethality of the
modern battlefield.

3. Information Operations (IO).
action taken to defend and
enhance ones own information,
information processes and
information systems and to affect
adversary information,
information processes and
information systems
• Information – Unevaluated
material of every description.
• Information System – The
combination of resources
including information technology
and people required to handle
and process the included
information for a specific
purpose.
• Information Processes – Any
process, which relies on
information, e.g. MAP, IPB, C2 or
targeting.
a. IO Components
(1) Offensive IO
• EW
• Psyop
• Deception
• Computer network
attk (CAN), destruction
• Other military
capabilities as appropriate.
(2) Defensive IO
• Information assurance
(IA)
• Counter-Intelligence (CI)
• Protective security
• Operation security
(OPSEC)
• EW
• Counter-psyop
• Other conventional
military pabilities as appropriate
b. Level of Command
• Strategic – Directed by the
military and planned to support
national strategy objectives.
• Operational – IO may be
planned at operational level to
support military objective within a
particular theatre and would
normally be carried out with
theatre resources.
• Tactical – Planned at tactical
level to support specific
manoeuvre objectives.
4. Reconnaissance, Surveillance
and Intelligence (RSI).
a. Reconnaissance –
defined as msn undertaken to
obtain by visual info or other
detection means, info on
activities, resources of en or
potential en, or to secure data
about the meteorological,
hydrographical or geographic
characteristic of a particular area.
 b. Surveillance – defined as
the systematic obsn of aero-
space, surface or sub-surface
areas, places persons or things
by visual, aural, electronic,
photographic or other means.
c. Intelligence – defined as
the product resulting fm the
processing of information
concerning foreign nations,
hostile or potential hostile forces
or elements or areas of actual or
potential operation.
5. Mobility and Survivability (MS).
Includes all systems and
personnel that contribute in the
broadest sense to knowing and
shaping the physical dimension.
a. Mobility Sp – Action taken
to enhance the mobility of the
force thereby allowing the comd
the freedom to physically
manoeuvre.
b. Counter-Mobility Sp –
Action taken to deny the en
freedom to physically manoeuvre.
c. Survivability Sp – Action
taken to reduce the effect of
hazards created by the en, by our
own forces or by nature.
d. Sustainability Sp – Action
taken to enable a force to
maintain the necessary level of
fighting power capability for the
duration required to achieve its
obj.
6. Air Defence (AD).
Air Defence (AD) BOS integrated
sensors, wpn, C4I, airspace
control measures, active and
passive defence techniques to
provide friendly forces protection
and freedom of menoeuvre in a
hostile air environment.
a. Method of Air Defence
Operation
 Area Defence
 Vital Point Defence (VPD)
 Route Defence
7. Command and Control (C2).
Command is the process by
which comd impress their will and
intentions on their subordinates.
It encompasses the authority and
responsibility for deploying forces
to fulfil the cond msn.
Control is the process through
which comd assisted by their
staff, organise, direct and
coordinate the activities of the
forces allocated.
a. Sense – The comd must
sense all aspects of the
battlefield to direct its
efforts.
b. Control – To control is to
create a response;
pressure exerted by
physical, moral or
cybernetic means to
exercise directing or
restraining influence over
 an en-friendly, en or 8. Combat Service Support (CSS).
neutral situation.
a. the support provided to combat
c. Shield – Comd must forces, primarily in the field of
constantly and actively administration and logistics
shield their forces and the
operation.
b. Administration is defined as ‘all
d. Strike – Striking is the personnel management activities’
decisive application of
c. Logistics is defined as ‘all of the
military power.
distribution, material support, personnel
support and support engineering
e. Sustain – Sustainment
required to raise, mobilise, deploy,
provides and preserves
sustain redeploy and demobilise combat
resources required to
forces’
maintain and prolong the
operation until its is d. The purpose of CSS is to
successfully completed. maintain a force with the necessary
combat power for the duration required
f. Movement – The dynamic to achieve its objectives
element of manoeuvre and
the key concern of the MS
BOS.