Abstract

TOVAR CABRERA, Gustavo Andrés  and  FIGUEROA PEDREROS, Erika Constanza. The origin and doctrinal evolution of air mobility in the Colombian National Army (1962-1969). Rev. Cient. Gen. José María Córdova [online]. 2022, vol.20, n.39, pp.571-587.  Epub July 01, 2022. ISSN 1900-6586.  https://doi.org/10.21830/19006586.877.

The redirection of military strategy towards counter-guerrilla warfare in the 1950s and the United States’ positioning as the dominant power in the Western Hemisphere after World War II enriched the Colombian National Army’s doctrine. This article examines the background that enabled implementing the military concept of air mobility -prevalent worldwide in those years- in the Colombian Army’s military doctrine to complement the troops’ ground maneuver performance. To this end, the article analyzes the 1962 Lazo Plan and the 1969 EJC 3-10 regulation to establish their conceptual advances, American influence, and the circumstances that prompted these new elements, such as Colombia’s participation in the Korean War.

Keywords : airmobile operations; air mobility; armed forces; doctrine; ground maneuver; military tactics.

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