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UK Land Power (JDP 0-20)

Joint Doctrine Publication 0-20 describes the nature and application of UK land power.

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Joint Doctrine Publication (JDP) 0-20, UK Land Power (Sixth Edition) is the UK’s keystone land doctrine. It describes land power’s increasing reliance on multi-domain capabilities (maritime, air, space and cyber and electromagnetic) that enable land forces to operate on land and its interdependence with the other elements of national and military power, as well as multinational and private sector partners.  

JDP 0-20, UK Land Power is relevant to all three single Services. It provides a simple and concise explanation of UK land power and represents the land domain’s contribution to developing, operating and integrating across Defence to maintain operational and strategic advantage.

Learn more by watching this video on land power.

Who should read this publication

JDP 0-20 is recommended to all of the UK’s partners as a simple and concise explanation of UK land power. It should be of value to joint commanders and staffs, single Service warfare branches, other government departments, partners and allies.

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Updates to this page

Published 16 June 2017
Last updated 20 October 2023 + show all updates
  1. New land power video added.

  2. Updated with Edition 6.

  3. Updated links under 'you may also be interested in'

  4. First published.

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