via Stars & Strips
A decade ago, Navy Adm. Harry Harris challenged a roomful of Army leaders to think beyond land. “The Army’s got to be able to sink ships, neutralize satellites, shoot down missiles and deny the enemy the ability to command and control its forces,” Harris, at the time in charge of what is now U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, said at the 2016 Land Forces Pacific symposium at Waikiki Beach. Today, the Army’s three multi-domain task forces — with two more in the works — may be the most tangible result of Harris’ charge. “Multi-domain task forces in the field now, as I utter these words, in commission now, represent the centerpiece of this response … and this fundamentally alters the strategic calculus in the contested environment,” Adm. Samuel Paparo, today’s INDOPACOM commander, said Tuesday in the keynote speech opening this year’s LANPAC.
Ya got to give the doggies credit.
They transformed their force without wrecking their capabilities. They maintained their core and ADDED TO IT!
The Army outdid the Marine Corps.
I've said for a long time now that the "Stand In Force" is a "wait and die" force. It will reveal enemy locations (generally) by their calls for assistance while being pelted with missile fires from long range.
Berger and now Smith risked it all and came up empty.
Will they revert to a global force in readiness? I can only wonder. What I do know is that you had better keep an eye on the 101st Airborne. They're in line to get the Army's new tiltrotor first. They're practicing large scale, long range air assaults.
The Marine Corps wants to use big decks for everything but assaults? The Army will fill those decks with their birds and do what the Marine Corps says they don't anymore.
Force Design 2030 was and is an evolutionary dead end.
