Field Manual (FM) 3-39 describes the operational doctrine of the
Military Police Corps Regiment. The manual is linked to joint and Army
doctrine to ensure that it is useful for joint and Army. Other military
police FMs will be based on the foundations established in this manual
and will be synchronized with their respective joint and Army
publications. To comprehend the doctrine contained in this manual,
readers must first understand the nature of unified land operations as
described in Army Doctrine Publication (ADP) 3-0 and Army Doctrine
Reference Publication (ADRP) 3-0. Readers of this manual must also fully
understand the fundamentals of the operations process found in ADP 5-0
and ADRP 5-0, the principles of mission command as described in ADP 6-0
and ADRP 6-0, and the protection principles discussed in ADP 3-37 and
ADRP 3-37.