text: Preface
  Field manual 3-01.44 provides guidance for short-range air defense (SHORAD). The manual describes how
  SHORAD is planned, coordinated, integrated, synchronized, and executed. It is not intended to provide
  prescriptive solutions for air defense. The manual provides general guidance and allows commanders the
  versatility to employ SHORAD forces as they deem necessary. Emerging SHORAD systems will be included
  as they begin to be fielded in the future.
  The target audience for this publication encompasses leaders at all levels from the corps commander to the
  air defense artillery (ADA) team chief. It will also aid the joint force commander in planning and executing
  air and missile defense (AMD) operations throughout the battlefield and can be beneficial for sensor
  employment, collection management, target development and force application.
  Commanders, staffs, and subordinates must ensure their decisions and actions comply with applicable U.S.,
  international, and, in some cases, host-nation laws and regulations. Commanders at all levels must ensure
  their Soldiers operate in accordance with the law of armed conflict and applicable rules of engagement
  (ROE). See FM 6-27.
  FM 3-01.44 uses joint terms where applicable. Selected joint and Army terms and definitions appear in the
  glossary and the text. For definitions shown in the text, the term is italicized and the number of the proponent
  publication follows the definition. This publication is not the proponent for any Army terms. Most ADA and
  AMD terms are spelled out throughout the manual, instead of using acronyms, to support readability and
  understanding by non-ADA personnel.
  FM 3-01.44 applies to the Active Army, Army National Guard/Army National Guard of the United States,
  and United States Army Reserve unless otherwise stated.
  The Commandant, United States Army Air Defense Artillery School is the proponent of FM 3-01.44. The
  United States Army Fires Center of Excellence and Fort Sill is the preparing agency. Send written comments
  and recommendations on a DA Form 2028 (Recommended Changes to Publication and Blank Forms) to
  Directorate of Training and Doctrine, 700 McNair Avenue, Suite 128 ATTN: ATSF-DD, Fort Sill, OK
  73503; by email to usarmy.sill.fcoe.mbx.dotd-doctrine-inbox@army.mil; or submit an electronic DA Form
  2028.