Obstacles are designed to slow or prevent movement by personnel, to separate infantry from tanks, and to slow or stop vehicles.Ĭommand-detonated mines, barbed wire, and exploding flame devices are used to construct antipersonnel obstacles ( Figures 8-1 through 8-5). Readers should not construe any uses of the term mines, antipersonnel obstacle, protective minefield, or minefield contained in this manual to mean a US-emplaced obstacle that contains nonself-destructing antipersonnel land mines or booby traps. Consider all references to antipersonnel mines and the employment of minefields in the light of the national policy limiting the use of nonself-destructing antipersonnel land mines.

Under proper command authority, units may still emplace mixed minefields containing self-destructing antipersonnel land mines used to protect antivehicular land mines for example, MOPMS or Volcano.

For the immediate future, units may still use self-destructing antipersonnel mines, such as the ADAM, when authorized by the appropriate commander. It does not affect use of the M18 Claymore mine in the command-detonated mode. This policy does not affect the standard use of antivehicular mines. US national policy forbids US forces from using standard or improvised explosive devices as booby traps. This policy, currently in effect, applies to all units either engaged in, or training for, operations worldwide. The national policy of the United States severely restricts the use of antipersonnel land mines, beginning with those that do not self-destruct but eventually including all types. In urban combat, obstacles and mines are used extensively by the defender to canalize the enemy, impede his movement, and disrupt his attack. CHAPTER 8 OBSTACLES, MINES, AND DEMOLITIONS

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