Friday, March 24, 2023
  • About us
    • Write for us
    • Disclaimer
    • Terms of use
    • Privacy Policy
  • RSS Feeds
  • Advertise with us
  • Contact us
DefenceTalk
  • Home
  • Defense News
    • Defense & Geopolitics News
    • War Conflicts News
    • Army News
    • Air Force News
    • Navy News
    • Missiles Systems News
    • Nuclear Weapons
    • Defense Technology
    • Cybersecurity News
  • Military Photos
  • Defense Forum
  • Military Videos
  • Military Weapon Systems
    • Weapon Systems
    • Reports
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Defense News
    • Defense & Geopolitics News
    • War Conflicts News
    • Army News
    • Air Force News
    • Navy News
    • Missiles Systems News
    • Nuclear Weapons
    • Defense Technology
    • Cybersecurity News
  • Military Photos
  • Defense Forum
  • Military Videos
  • Military Weapon Systems
    • Weapon Systems
    • Reports
No Result
View All Result
DefenceTalk
No Result
View All Result

US Army Futures and Concepts Center evaluates new force structure

by Army News Service
April 24, 2020
in Army News
3 min read
0
Multi-Domain Operations

Multi-Domain Operations describes how the Army, as part of the joint force, can counter and defeat a near-peer adversary capable of contesting the U.S. in all domains, in both competition and armed conflict. (Motion graphic provided by the U.S. Army Training Support Center.)

5
SHARES
14
VIEWS

The Army is designing a new calibrated force structure to bolster capabilities at the brigade level and above, catered to meet regional mission requirements.

The Army Futures and Concepts Center recently started work on “AimPoint Force,” a new structure alignment that is optimized to meet multi-domain operational requirements and create overmatch, said its director, Lt. Gen. Eric Wesley, during a press briefing Tuesday.

The AimPoint process started when the MDO concept was published in December 2018. Then Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley directed FCC to design a force structure, resource unconstrained, that could fight MDO and win.

Affectionately called the Whiteboard Force, he said, the idea was to create a force structure that adhered to the MDO ideology but was free of any financial or resource constraints.

The whiteboard process eventually evolved into AimPoint after Army Chief of Staff Gen. James C. McConville and Gen. John Murray, head of Army Futures Command, which oversees the FCC, identified the need for a “resource-informed design to responsibly guide modernization efforts,” Wesley added.

“AimPoint is not a lockdown design,” he said. “It is an architect’s design for a force structure in the future.

“When you’re resource unconstrained, you can go out and buy a Maserati — it goes fast and turns well,” Wesley added. “When you’re resource informed, you might buy a Corvette. It still goes fast and turns well, but you have to mitigate some of the differences.”

As the Army shifts from its continual support of counterinsurgency to near-peer competition, the force must continue to build out the echelons above the brigade level to compete in large-scale operations, he said.

“Those echelons have been mortgaged a bit in the last 20 or 30 years because our (brigade combat teams) were so powerful relative to our opponent,” Wesley said. “Now, we are contested in all domains, and our two peer competitors are investing in their militaries.”

With an emphasis on information warfare, cyber, and space access, the Army must “build back some of that campaign quality at echelon,” he added. Further, the force will need a way to connect capabilities to exploit opportunities at the BCT level and below.

AimPoint also targets formational changes to overcome the geographical distinctions between the European and Indo-Pacific theaters, he said.

The “tyranny of distance” is a significant challenge in the Pacific region, officials said. In turn, AimPoint looks to tailor the Army’s long-range precision fires, future vertical lift, and air and missile defense capabilities to meet regional requirements, Wesley said.

In Europe, the Army will need to rely on the rapid deployment of maneuver ground forces, he said. Therefore, AimPoint experimentation will target long-range precision fires, network, next-generation combat vehicles, and Soldier lethality capabilities, to name a few.

Establishing a calibrated force posture is a core tenet under MDO, and it will continue to be informed by “political and resource decisions,” Wesley said.

However, the Army has already taken steps to improve its posture with the revival of V Corps — a headquarters that was deactivated in Germany in 2013. It is being reactivated at Fort Knox, Kentucky, to provide personnel who will rotate to an operational command post in Europe.

With the need for long-range fires in both regions, the FCC also supports the establishment of a new Theater Fires Command within the AimPoint construct.

“Building out the ability to integrate fires at echelon is important to fight at scale,” Wesley said. “Penetration requires long-range precision fires to strike a combined arms army” to disintegrate an adversary’s anti-access and area-denial defenses.

“These are problems that the BCT commander does not solve in theater. Some of that will have to be done at higher echelons,” he added.

Tags: futuremulti domain operationsus army
Previous Post

AeroVironment Unveils Quantix Recon, Hybrid VTOL UAS for Defense Applications

Next Post

18 Sailors Positive In COVID-19 Outbreak On US Navy Destroyer

Related Posts

Indonesia Orders Additional CAESAR Artillery Systems

France to send more mobile artillery to Ukraine

February 1, 2023

France will ship 12 more Caesar truck-mounted howitzers and fresh air defence equipment to Ukraine to bolster the fight against...

Leopard tanks to arrive in Ukraine around late March: Germany

Leopard tanks to arrive in Ukraine around late March: Germany

January 27, 2023

Leopard tanks pledged by Germany to help Ukraine repel Russia's invasion will arrive in "late March, early April", Defence Minister...

Next Post
18 Sailors Positive In COVID-19 Outbreak On US Navy Destroyer

18 Sailors Positive In COVID-19 Outbreak On US Navy Destroyer

Latest Defense News

Ahead of talks, North Korea says fired ‘new’ sub-launched missile

North Korea says it tested new underwater nuclear attack ‘drone’

March 24, 2023
China Naval Modernization: Implications for US Navy

Chinese military says ‘warned’ US warship to leave S. China Sea

March 24, 2023
Urban warfare ‘nightmare’ looms if Russia enters Ukraine cities

NATO rejects Russian complaints on UK uranium ammo

March 24, 2023
Russian navy in show of strength with 26 new ships this year

Russian navy ‘repelled’ drone attack on Crimea port

March 23, 2023
Officials provide details on building the Space Force, its structure, and operating imperatives

Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ at 40: Battle of the satellites

March 23, 2023
China will ‘never commit to abandoning the use of force’ on Taiwan: Xi

China diplomatic offensive lays down new challenge for US

March 22, 2023

Defense Forum Discussions

  • Royal Australian Air Force [RAAF] News, Discussions and Updates
  • Japan, Koreas, China and Taiwan regional issues
  • The Russian-Ukrainian War Thread
  • Royal Australian Navy Discussions and Updates 2.0
  • The best strategy to defending Singapore Island
  • South China Sea thoughts?
  • Australian Army Discussions and Updates
  • General Naval News
  • Italian Navy Discussions and Updates
  • NZDF General discussion thread
DefenceTalk

© 2003-2020 DefenceTalk.com

Navigate Site

  • Defence Forum
  • Military Photos
  • RSS Feeds
  • About us
  • Advertise with us
  • Contact us

Follow Us

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Defense News
    • Defense & Geopolitics News
    • War Conflicts News
    • Army News
    • Air Force News
    • Navy News
    • Missiles Systems News
    • Nuclear Weapons
    • Defense Technology
    • Cybersecurity News
  • Military Photos
  • Defense Forum
  • Military Videos
  • Military Weapon Systems
    • Weapon Systems
    • Reports

© 2003-2020 DefenceTalk.com