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Concepts Drive Change

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Threats Layer “Stand-off”

Combined Arms Armies employ organic long-, mid-, and short-range systems to create

operational and tactical stand-off that requires attacking functions rather than formations

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Describes three interrelated ways to achieve strategic objectives:

➢Expand the competition space on favorable terms (preferred method)

If necessary:

➢Win a short conflict by denying initial enemy objectives and achieving

an operational position of advantage

➢Win a protracted conflict by regaining the operational initiative and

defeating enemy forces

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Army forces, as an element of the Joint Force, conduct Multi-Domain

Operations to prevail in competition; when necessary, Army forces

penetrate and dis-integrate enemy anti-access and area denial

systems and exploit the resultant freedom of maneuver to achieve

strategic objectives (win) and force a return to competition on

favorable terms.

Central Idea

Element AirLand Battle Multi-Domain Operations

Operational

Environment

Single Pacing Threat (Soviet Union) Multiple Threats across the OE with similar

operation approaches (near-peers)

Focus Formations (Second Echelon) Systems (Anti-Access and Area Denial

Systems)

Operational Context Forward postured force in prepared

defense

CONUS-based force executing offensive

action through strategic and operational

maneuver

Central Idea Engage throughout the depth of the

battlefield; defeat the Second Echelon

Compete in all domains; when necessary,

penetrate and dis-integrate enemy anti-

access and area denial systems and exploit

the resultant freedom of maneuver to

achieve strategic objectives (win) and force a

return to competition

Domains Land, Air (synchronization) Land, Air, Maritime, Space, Cyber (synergy)

Echelon Corps/Division and below Inter-Agency, Theater and below

Phases Phased operations in armed conflict Across competition continuum

Concept

AirLand Battle and Multi-Domain Operations: What is the Difference?

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Multi-Domain OperationsEvolutionary Concept with Revolutionary Impacts

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Complex, Hyper-Competition, Near-Peer gains.…

Joint Integration

Convergence of Capabilities

Cross-Domain Synergy

Multiple Dilemmas

Innovative Teams

SPACE

AIR

CYBERSPACE

LAND

MARITIME

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UK/US Interoperability RoadmapVision: UK division to operate effectively within a US Corps; UK brigade operating

effectively within a US division; US BCT operating effectively within a UK division; US division

operating effectively within UK-framework NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps

Events to enhance interoperability: JWA, WFX, GORT (Strat & Modernisation), ASTs, CRC-A

Timeline

Focus

Area

2020 2019 2018 2021 2022+

CIS/IM

Intel / ISR

Fusion*

Digital Fires

Sustainment

AM&E

S&T

ASCA CD

(WFX 18.4)

FC BISA 4.0

Release 1

UK FMN

(Ex IR)

US MPE

(WFX /

JWA)

FC BISA 4.0

Release 2

DCGS-A

WEB

(WFX 18.4)

DCGS-A

IPS

(WFX 19.4)

Integrated

Intel

(TBC)

UK Data

Repository

(IOC)

* Intel sharing continues in sp of real world ops

UK Data

Repository

(FOC)

Automated

Commodity

Sharing (2023)

Present CGA

methodology

(SCM 18)

CS Standard, Log C4I

& RSOM Validation

(Ex TJ & JWA 19.1)

Commodity

Sharing

StandardRSOM

CONOP

Log C4I CD

(WFX 18.4)

Present

CGAInterop

lessons

exploitation

presn to

GORT

Present

CGA

CRC-A CRC-A CRC-A CRC-A

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Multi-Domain Operations Solution

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Modernization Framework

Thread of Continuity

Sustain

(Enduring)

Delay/Reduce

(Trade-off)

Invest/

Accelerate

(New)

DivestXNear

(now-2025)

Mid

(2026-2035)

Far

(2036-2050)

POM YEARS

(Publish Annual Mission Guidance – top down- for

FFME that prioritizes and puts into action the

AMS ) OE/ Pacing Threat Russian New Generation Warfare

(RNGW) 2018 202810 Year Plan

Experiments/Exercises

Concept

The Army needs a threat/OE based, operationally

driven framework for modernization

(AMS 1.5, ACP, …a single, nested narrative)

Feedback

Army Mod

Strategy

1.5

*

*Note: AMS 1.5 must address a comprehensive DOTMLPF-P modernization plan; the current AMS is “M” focused while CAC has sought to maintain doctrinal change commensurate with capability.

Ideally, the AMS becomes an Army guidance document driving the entire enterprise across the ACOMs…potentially serving as the modernization chapter to the ACP

D

O

T

M

L

P

F

P

Mod Strategy*

(AMS 1.0 Insufficient

- “M” focused)

April 2019

“The Army of 2028 will be ready to deploy, fight and win decisively against any adversary, anytime and anywhere,

in a joint, multi-domain, high-intensity conflict, while simultaneously deterring others and maintaining its ability to

conduct irregular warfare”

- SEC Mark Esper, GEN Mark Milley

NSS/NDS/

NMS