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| Wormuth: US Army to invest in larger, high-tech formations |
| 2022-10-11 |
| [Defense News] WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army will build larger formations outfitted with high-tech capabilities geared toward near-peer adversaries, Secretary Christine Wormuth told an audience Oct. 10 at the Association of the U.S. Army annual conference in Washington, D.C. "After two decades of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, focused on brigade and below operations, the Army is shifting its organizational focus to larger formations more capable of integrating with our sister services and our allies and partners around the globe," Wormuth said. The Army has learned through extensive study and analysis of recent conflicts, exercises, simulations and training, she said, that brigade commanders give their attention to the close fight. To facilitate that, "division and corps commanders will have the responsibility and the capability to visualize the larger picture," Wormuth said. The service will build up personnel, organizations and equipment within theater armies, corps and divisions needed "to disrupt and defeat peer adversaries on the future battlefield," she added. "These force structure redesigns go well beyond building [security force assistance brigades] and the additional multidomain task forces," she explained. The Army created those brigades in 2017 to deploy around the globe for training, advising and assisting foreign militaries. There are six of them: Five are in an active duty status and assigned to each combatant command; the sixth is a National Guard unit. The Multi-Domain Task Force originally began as an experimental unit deployed to Indo-Pacific Command to test out the multidomain operations warfighting concept as the Army worked to transform it into doctrine. The service is debuting that doctrine at AUSA. Now, the service plans to stand up five MDTFs. It has one in the Indo-Pacific Command’s area of responsibility and another in the European theater; it activated a third in the Pacific last month. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 The Multi-Domain Task Force originally began as an experimental unit deployed to Indo-Pacific Command to test out the multidomain operations warfighting concept as the Army worked to transform it into doctrine. Goodness gracious, what a blizzard of word salad! (sarc) Obviously what we need are more deskbound technicians and fewer riflemen! (/sarc) |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-10-11 16:38 |
| #2 Service members sound alarm against 'extremely woke' military |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-10-11 09:17 |
#1  “We trained hard—but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.”― Petronius Arbiter c. 27 AD - c. 66 AD |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-10-11 09:09 |