Neil McDonnell and the GovCon Chamber of Commerce make the Army's Futures Command concept documents available to federal government contractors as they do their "homework" to support the Department of Defense.
Army Futures Command Concept for Maneuver in Multi Domain Operations 2028Neil McDonnell
Neil McDonnell and the GovCon Chamber of Commerce make the Army's Futures Command concept documents available to federal government contractors as they do their "homework" to support the Department of Defense.
Army Futures Command Concept for Special Operations 2028Neil McDonnell
Neil McDonnell and the GovCon Chamber of Commerce make the Army's Futures Command concept documents available to federal government contractors as they do their "homework" to support the Department of Defense.
Army Futures Command Concept for Intelligence 2028Neil McDonnell
Neil McDonnell and the GovCon Chamber of Commerce make the Army's Futures Command concept documents available to federal government contractors as they do their "homework" to support the Department of Defense.
This presentation was given as part of the Cross-Domain Deterrence Seminar hosted by the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in November 2014.
Neil McDonnell and the GovCon Chamber of Commerce make the Army's Futures Command concept documents available to federal government contractors as they do their "homework" to support the Department of Defense.
Army Futures Command Concept for Maneuver in Multi Domain Operations 2028Neil McDonnell
Neil McDonnell and the GovCon Chamber of Commerce make the Army's Futures Command concept documents available to federal government contractors as they do their "homework" to support the Department of Defense.
Army Futures Command Concept for Special Operations 2028Neil McDonnell
Neil McDonnell and the GovCon Chamber of Commerce make the Army's Futures Command concept documents available to federal government contractors as they do their "homework" to support the Department of Defense.
Army Futures Command Concept for Intelligence 2028Neil McDonnell
Neil McDonnell and the GovCon Chamber of Commerce make the Army's Futures Command concept documents available to federal government contractors as they do their "homework" to support the Department of Defense.
This presentation was given as part of the Cross-Domain Deterrence Seminar hosted by the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in November 2014.
This presentation was given as part of the Cross-Domain Deterrence Seminar hosted by the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in November 2014.
This presentation was given as part of the Cross-Domain Deterrence Seminar hosted by the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in November 2014.
Augments crisis communication case study of Air Force's reaction to having lost six nuclear missiles in 2007. Find the presentation at http://storify.com/higginbomb/lost-missiles-and-lost-messages
Dr. Laird Presentation at Copenhagen Airpower Conference, April 2015ICSA, LLC
On April 17, 2015, a joint symposium on the evolution of airpower was co-sponsored by The Sir Richard Williams Foundation (Australia) and the Centre for Military Studies of the Department of Political Science of the University of Copenhagen.
Both organizations are partners with Second Line of Defense.
This was an unusual conference given that it launched an Australian effort to broaden the working relationship with non-Asian partners in shaping new approaches to airpower and was, in turn, the beginning of a broader intellectual outreach by the Danish Centre as well.
This presentation was by Dr. Robbin Laird and addressed the strategic environment within which coalition airpower is evolving.
Secretary Wynne on the Future of Coalition Airpower, 2030ICSA, LLC
Recently, Secretary Wynne did a companion interview with Second Line of Defense to his earlier piece on the future of airpower. This interview focused on the coalition aspect of the evolution of airpower. This briefing was the basis of that interview.
This presentation was given as part of the Cross-Domain Deterrence Seminar hosted by the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in November 2014.
This presentation was given as part of the Cross-Domain Deterrence Seminar hosted by the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in November 2014.
Augments crisis communication case study of Air Force's reaction to having lost six nuclear missiles in 2007. Find the presentation at http://storify.com/higginbomb/lost-missiles-and-lost-messages
Dr. Laird Presentation at Copenhagen Airpower Conference, April 2015ICSA, LLC
On April 17, 2015, a joint symposium on the evolution of airpower was co-sponsored by The Sir Richard Williams Foundation (Australia) and the Centre for Military Studies of the Department of Political Science of the University of Copenhagen.
Both organizations are partners with Second Line of Defense.
This was an unusual conference given that it launched an Australian effort to broaden the working relationship with non-Asian partners in shaping new approaches to airpower and was, in turn, the beginning of a broader intellectual outreach by the Danish Centre as well.
This presentation was by Dr. Robbin Laird and addressed the strategic environment within which coalition airpower is evolving.
Secretary Wynne on the Future of Coalition Airpower, 2030ICSA, LLC
Recently, Secretary Wynne did a companion interview with Second Line of Defense to his earlier piece on the future of airpower. This interview focused on the coalition aspect of the evolution of airpower. This briefing was the basis of that interview.
Bold Alligator 2012 and the Expeditionary Strike GroupICSA, LLC
Bold Alligator 2012 was significantly more than an amphibious exercise. And in a real sense it was not. It was a littoral force engagement exercise leveraging the seabase to operate over a very large battlespace. And it was an exercise which pick up some of the lessons learned off of Libya and are carrying them forward into the 21st Century.
When compared to the last major amphibious exercise conducted in 1996 “Operation Purple Star,” one of the clear differences was the impact of the Osprey. The speed and range of the Osprey demonstrated in both Libyan operations and in Bold Alligator provided glimpses of the future. The seabase can be linked ship to ship, from ship to shore, from shore to ship and back again. During the exercise, the Osprey landed on the USNS Robert E. Peary, a T-AKE ship and, indeed, participated in the raid 185 miles away on Fort Pickett.
As the chief coalition officer involved in the exercise, Lt. Commander Pastoor argued, “This really is about power projection from the sea and the ability to move the insertion force from and to the sea base and to operate throughout the battlespace.”
The promise of the ESG enabled by the Osprey and the coming F-35B is really rather simple. The ESG enabled by the Osprey and the F-35B is neither a Carrier Battle Group nor an Amphibious Ready Group. It is far more flexible than a CBG, in that it is a modular mix and match capability, which clearly can include allies as it did in the Exercise or in the operations off of Libya. And it is not simply an “ARG on steroids,” as one of the Harrier squadron commander noted. “It is far more capable.”
An ESG will allow for an economy of force whereby the ARG-MEU can be scaled up to include other sea based on air assets to allow for dominance of the battlespace. It is scalable both in terms of assets contained within the sea base or contributed by various land support structures, air or ground.
According to the 2nd MEF commander in the exercise, Brigadier General Owens, who will soon be moving to Okinawa, by strengthening the ability of the seabase to provide for logistics ashore, one can insert force without moving an iron mountain with it ashore. And “we get away from that image of amphibious assault where we’re going into a limited area, and that you have limited places you can land, so the enemy knows you’re coming to one of these two places. The goal of the ESG is to hit them where they’re not!”
The distributed character of the sea base seen in this exercise and highlighted by the evolving ESG allows for a modular mix and match quality. And this mix and match quality can embody the key elements of what one wants in 21st century forces: presence, economy of force and scalability.
The purpose of the Army Operating Concept Team Teach is to provide uniformed and civilian leaders across the Army and it's Joint, Interorganizational and multinational partners with an understanding of the Army's vision of future conflict as described in the U.S. Army Operating Concept: Win in a Complex World.
Lessons for rebuilding Iraq's shattered security forces drawn from modern Arab military success stories. A briefing by Washington Institute Kahn Fellow Michael Eisenstadt. January 21, 2015.
Deterrence in Depth: Shaping A Pacific Defense StrategyICSA, LLC
This presentation was given to Centre for Military Studies, University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark by Dr, Robbin F. Laird on May 22, 2014.
The Danish Centre for Military Studies (CMS) was established on 1 April 2010. CMS carries out strategic research and provides research-based public sector services with a focus on topical military and defence and security policy issues and provides an organisational framework for interdisciplinary research cooperation between the University of Copenhagen, other research institutions and other relevant parties.
http://cms.polsci.ku.dk/english/about/
Hear from the United States as leaders in Airborne ISR and C2 Battle Management and also gain an international perspective on current and future ISR capabilities and strategic plans.
Questions? Contact the AISR team at enquire@defenceiq.com (quote: 24166.002)
After more than 15 years of war, the operational effective.docxdaniahendric
After more than 15 years of war, the operational effectiveness of
Army Special Operations Forces remains without equal. However, the
future operating environment will continue to evolve with highly
adaptive state and non-state adversaries seeking to challenge the
status quo and our national interests. The forms of conflict employed
by adversaries in the future are expected to be hybrid in nature,
blending conventional and irregular capabilities, and will more often
challenge the stability of regions through indirect means.
Preventing or deterring hybrid conflict short of all-out war is
demanding. It requires persistent forward engagement at points of
vulnerability around the world. It requires operators to understand the
political, cultural, and geographic complexities of austere operating
environments and the unique challenges faced by our allies and
partners. It also requires an advanced understanding of adversaries
and how they are evolving in an effort to gain a position of advantage.
In order to meet these requirements and to counter hybrid threats of
the future, ARSOF must provide the nation with a portfolio of comple-
mentary capabilities enabled by institutional and operational agility.
USASOC 2035, like its forerunner ARSOF 2022, provides facts and
details for use by members of the force when communicating the
ARSOF narrative in engagements with joint force commanders,
interagency partners, and other audiences worldwide. It also pro-
vides guidance for the further development of ARSOF institutional
and operational capabilities needed to counter future threats across
the spectrum of conflict, especially in gray zones between peace and
overt war. USASOC 2035 incorporates ARSOF 2022 initiatives still in
progress and builds upon those capabilities already established. It
presents objectives for developing future capabilities that will move
ARSOF from the force of today to the force of tomorrow.
KENNETH E. TOVO
Lieutenant General, U.S. Army
Commanding
Sine Pari – Without Equal
FROM THE
COMMANDER
Acknowledgments:
USASOC 2035 was a collaborative effort
that included many advisers and
contributors. LTG Kenneth Tovo, the
USASOC Commanding General, would
like to personally thank the following
individuals for their dedication to this effort:
The USASOC Commander’s Initiatives
Group: COL John Silkman, CW5 Linc
Glenister, LTC Ryan Burkert, LTC Christian
Sessoms, LTC Jon Bleakley, MAJ Doug
Graham, and Dr. Alex Heidenberg; the
USASOC G3, COL Tim Ladouceur, and the
G3 Staff; the USASOC G5, COL Kyle Lear, and
the G5 Staff to include MAJ Kyle Packard,
primary author of USASOC Campaign Plan
2035; Dr. Michael Krivdo and Dan Telles of the
USASOC Historian's Office; and the USASOC
CSC and CSU Command Teams. Special
thanks to the Special Warfare Magazine
staff: Janice Burton, Jennifer Angelo and
Juan Barrera. Finally, a special thanks to
LTC Duane Mosier, primary author and
res ...
Artful Balance: Future US Defense Strategy and Force Posture in the Gulfatlanticcouncil
A strategic review of US defense strategy and force posture in the Gulf is long overdue. In Artful Balance: Future US Defense Strategy and Force Posture in the Gulf, Bilal Y. Saab, Resident Senior Fellow for Middle East Security at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, and Barry Pavel, Vice President and Director of the Scowcroft Center, analyze how historic changes and developing trends in Washington, the Middle East, and across the globe—along with Iran’s nuclear ambitions and asymmetric threat—are all affecting US defense strategy in the Gulf.
This paper was delivery at the ASNE Virtual Technology, Systems and Ships symposium. January 26-28 2021. It focused on ways to integrate unmanned surface vessels into the fleet. He highlight a concept o operations, he designated as a 'nesting dolls" approach. Credit: MARTAC
The title of the Williams Foundation Seminar held on October 24, 2019 was “the requirements for fifth generation manoeuvre.” But those presentations which dealt with the industry and the government-industry relationship highlighted that the legacy approach to setting requirements which not deliver effectively fifth-generation manoeuvre capabilities.
The industrial-government eco system is evolving and that evolution needs to deliver cross-domain integration which requires government and industry to work together more effectively. And moving passed stove-piped platform acquisition and finding ways to shape Australian defense architectures which can subsume systems bought abroad within a more integrated Australian set of capabilities are two of the key tasks facing the Australian defense system.
The Deputy Secretary of the Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group provided his perspective in his presentation to the Seminar.
The title of the Williams Foundation Seminar held on October 24, 2019 was “the requirements for fifth generation manoeuvre.” But those presentations which dealt with the industry and the government-industry relationship highlighted that the legacy approach to setting requirements which not deliver effectively fifth-generation manoeuvre capabilities.
The industrial-government eco system is evolving and that evolution needs to deliver cross-domain integration which requires government and industry to work together more effectively. And moving passed stove-piped platform acquisition and finding ways to shape Australian defense architectures which can subsume systems bought abroad within a more integrated Australian set of capabilities are two of the key tasks facing the Australian defense system.
Richard Czumak of Lockheed Martin provided his perspective in his presentation to the Seminar.
Presentation By Air Vice Marshal (Retd.) Chris DeebleICSA, LLC
The title of the Williams Foundation Seminar held on October 24, 2019 was “the requirements for fifth generation manoeuvre.” But those presentations which dealt with the industry and the government-industry relationship highlighted that the legacy approach to setting requirements which not deliver effectively fifth-generation manoeuvre capabilities.
The industrial-government eco system is evolving and that evolution needs to deliver cross-domain integration which requires government and industry to work together more effectively. And moving passed stove-piped platform acquisition and finding ways to shape Australian defense architectures which can subsume systems bought abroad within a more integrated Australian set of capabilities are two of the key tasks facing the Australian defense system.
The head of Northrup Grumman Australia, Chris Deeble, provided his perspective in his presentation to the Seminar.
BG langford Presentation at Williams Foundation seminar October 24 2019ICSA, LLC
BRIG Ian Langford, the head of Army’s Land Capability programs highlighted at the Williams Foundation Seminar held in Canberra, Australia, October 24, 2019, how he saw the Army adapting to the new environment and contributing to fifth generation manoeuvre.
BRIG Ian Langford argued that the evolving networks of forces enabled by a fifth-generation approach could provide new ways to mix and match forces to allow for more combat flexibility.
AIRCDRE Phil Gordon on the Changing Character of ManouvreICSA, LLC
The Commander of the RAAF’s Air Warfare Centre, AIRCDRE Phil Gordon focused on the changing nature of C2 at the Williams Foundation Seminar on the Changing Requirements for Fifth Generation Maneuver held in Canberra, Australia, October 24, 2019.
In this prevention at the Williams Foundation Seminar held in Canberra, Australia on October 24, 2019,
The scene setting presentation for the seminar was provided by WGCDR Joe Brick of the Australian War College. She provided a look back to inform the way ahead for Australia and its allies to position themselves for decisive advantage in 21st century conflict. .
The core GATR capability is really about rapid response.
In an article by Debra Werner of Space News published on December 5, 2017, the role of GATR was highlighted.
Cubic Corporation’s GATR satellite antennas continue to provide communications links for residents and community leaders in Puerto Rico more than two months after Hurricane Maria devastated the U.S. territory and nearby Caribbean islands.
Employees of GATR Technologies, part of Cubic Corporation’s Mission Solutions Division, were in the U.S. Virgin Islands working to reestablish communications in the wake of Hurricane Irma, when Help.NGO’s Disaster Immediate Response Team and Cisco Systems’ Tactical Operations Team called for assistance in Puerto Rico.
Victor Vega, GATR Technologies director of emerging solutions, and his colleagues packed inflatable satellite antennas in suitcases and brought them to areas of Puerto Rico where hurricane-force winds and fallen trees had dismantled the terrestrial communications infrastructure. They installed inflatable GATR 2.4 meter antennas on rooftops, including two U.S. Army National Guard buildings that served as a distribution point for food and water.
https://spacenews.com/5-markets-puerto-rico-turns-to-inflatable-satellite-antennas-for-communications/
In this briefing by Wing Commander Alison MacCarthy, the CO of the Heavy Air Lift SPO looks at how the RAAF works with industry to maintain its air platforms.
MBDA Briefing at Williams Foundation Seminar, April 11, 2019ICSA, LLC
This briefing by Chris Stevens from MBDA highlights the UK approach to sovereignty with regard to its weapons enterprise.
It was presented at the Williams Foundation Seminar in Canberra, Australia, April 11, 2019
Far from the Sanctuaries: Sustaining a Fifth Generation Fight in the Indo-Pac...ICSA, LLC
During the recent Williams Foundation Seminar examining the approach and ways to sustain Australian forces in the evolving regional context, Donna- Cain-Riva. Director of Future Logistics Capability for the Royal Australian Air Force, provided an overview on key capabilities necessary to sustain the force for anticipated regional crises.
Currently, she is working within the RAAF, but has been working in a variety of logistics positions in the ADF since 2001, and the range of experience makes a great deal of sense given the focus within the RAAF on providing a joint capability for the ADF overall.
Mike Tarlton Briefing to Williams Fondation Seminar on Joint Strike, August ...ICSA, LLC
Mike Tarlton, Director, Advanced Programs, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, provided a look at advanced unmanned concepts as a way to enhance independent RAAF strike capability.
This brief by the Commander of the Royal Australian Air Force's Surveillance and Response Group provides an overview on the SRG, and its organization and focus.
ZGB - The Role of Generative AI in Government transformation.pdfSaeed Al Dhaheri
This keynote was presented during the the 7th edition of the UAE Hackathon 2024. It highlights the role of AI and Generative AI in addressing government transformation to achieve zero government bureaucracy
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
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This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Monitoring Health for the SDGs - Global Health Statistics 2024 - WHOChristina Parmionova
The 2024 World Health Statistics edition reviews more than 50 health-related indicators from the Sustainable Development Goals and WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of Work. It also highlights the findings from the Global health estimates 2021, notably the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
1. The Rebuild of Conventional
Forces: Implications for the
Middle East
Dr. Robbin F. Laird
October 30, 2019
Research Fellow, The Williams Foundation
Second Line of Defense and Defense Information Publications
2. Background
• Tri-Continental Engagement
• Visits to multiple bases, areas of operations and wide range of interviews
with U.S. and allied military personnel and defense officials worldwide
• Regular visitor to the key warfighting centers at Fallon, MAWTS-1 and Nellis
• Been engaged from the outset in the standup of various USMC key
airpower modernization efforts, starting with the Osprey
• For the past five years, have written regular reports on the Australian
reworking of the ADF; And am just arriving from the latest seminar one
which deals with expanding the reach of the ADF in the Pacific
• As well as regular engagements in the UK, France, Germany, the Nordics,
the Spanish and the Italians as well as other visits relevant to
understanding the conventional modernization reset
3. Phases of Conventional Modernization for the
United States and Core Allies
• Air-Land Battle
• The Strategic Shift to COIN
• The Conventional Rebuild in what the Pentagon Refers to as the
Return of Great Power Competition
• Crafting and Shaping of an Integrated Distributed Force or what might
be called a kill web operational force or shaping deterrence in depth
• Fortunately, the technology is already here to build effectively down
this path, a path which allows engagement at the low end and
provides building blocks to higher end capabilities
4. Crafting an Integrated Distributed force for
Full Spectrum Crisis Management
• To deal with the challenge of the rise of the 21st century authoritarian powers,
the focus is upon an effort to the effort to shape a full spectrum crisis
management capability whose con-ops is shaped to deal with adversary
operations within what some call the “gray zone” or within the “hybrid warfare”
area.
• The nature of the threat facing the liberal democracies was well put by a senior
Finnish official: “The timeline for early warning is shorter; the threshold for the
use of force is lower.”
• What is unfolding is that capabilities traditionally associated with high end
warfare are being drawn upon for lower threshold conflicts, designed to achieve
political effect without firing a shot.
• Higher end capabilities being developed by China are Russia are becoming tools
to achieve political-military objectives throughout the diplomatic engagement
spectrum.
5.
6. Building an Integrated Distributed Force
• The force we are building will have five key interactives capabilities:
• Enough platforms with allied and US forces in mind to provide significant presence;
• A capability to maximize economy of force with that presence;
• Scalability whereby the presence force can reach back if necessary at the speed of light
and receive combat reinforcements;
• Be able to tap into variable lethality capabilities appropriate to the mission or the threat
in order to exercise dominance.
• And to have the situational awareness relevant to proactive crisis management at the
point of interest and an ability to link the fluidity of local knowledge to appropriate
tactical and strategic decisions.
7. Technology and Geography
• What we are seeing is a blending of technological change, with con-ops changes
and which in turn affect the use and definition of relevant military geography. In
other words, the modernization of conventional forces also has an effect on
geography
• As Joshua Tallis argued in his book on maritime security, the notion of what is a
littoral region has undergone change over time in part due to the evolution of
military technologies. “Broadly speaking, the littoral region is the ‘area of land
susceptible to military influence from the sea, and the sea area susceptible to
influence from the land.’ In military terms, ‘a littoral zone is the portion of land
space that can be engaged using sea-based weapon systems, plus the adjacent
sea space (surface and subsurface0 that can be engaged using land-based
weapon system, and the surrounding airspace and cyberspace.’ The littoral is
therefore defined by the technological capability of a military, and as a result, the
littoral is not like other geographic terms.”
8. The Impact of an Integrated Distributed Force
• What is changing is that the force we are shaping to operate in the littorals
has expansive reach beyond the presence force in the littorals themselves.
If you are not present; you are not present.
• We have to start by having enough platforms to be able to operate in areas
of interest.
• But what changes with the integrated distribute ops approach is what a
presence force can now mean.
• Historically, what a presence force is about what organically included
within that presence force; now we are looking at reach or scalability of
force.
• We are looking at economy of force whereby what is operating directly in
the area of interest is part of distributed force.
9. The Key Role of C2
• The presence force however small needs to be well integrated but not just
in terms of itself but its ability to operate via C2 or ISR connectors to an
enhanced capability. But that enhanced capability needs to be deployed in
order to be tailorable to the presence force and to provide enhanced
lethality and effectiveness appropriate to the political action needed to be
taken.
• This rests really on a significant rework of C2 in order for a distributed force
to have the flexibility to operate not just within a limited geographical area
but to expand its ability to operate by reaching beyond the geographical
boundaries of what the organic presence force is capable of doing by itself.
• In effect, we are creating a new C2 and ISR infrastructure which enables an
integrated distributed force and will reshape the approach to force
development
10. A Case in Point: The Australian Model for
Border Security
15. A Case in Point: The Russian Use of the
Caspian Fleet
• Chris Cavas wrote about the Caspian fleet in this piece while he was at Defense News:
• Few naval strategists would count Russia’s Caspian Sea flotilla among significant units in an order
of battle. The inland sea features naval forces from the four bordering countries — Azerbaijan,
Iran and Turkmenistan in addition to Russia — but most vessels are small missile-armed or patrol
craft, nearly all well under 1,000 tons. The forces have been viewed purely as local craft.
• But that changed on Oct. 7, when four Russian warships in the Caspian Sea launched a reported
26 Kalibr SS-N-30A cruise missiles at targets in Syria, nearly 1,000 nautical miles away. While most
analysts dismissed the military effects of the missile strikes, the fact that such small, inexpensive
and relatively simple craft can affect ground operations that far away is significant.
• “It is not lost on us that this launch from the Caspian Sea was more than just hitting targets in
Syria,” said a US official. “They have assets in Syria that could have handled this. It was really
about messaging to the world and us that this is a capability that they have and they can use it.”
• https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2015/10/11/is-caspian-sea-fleet-a-game-changer/
16. Implications for the Middle East: Notably the
GCC Dealing with Iran
• Whole of Government Effort is Central
• Integration of Force Packages is a Key Tool Set
• Shaping effective information flows throughout the entire security
and defense enterprise is a foundational element
• Cyber security built in and cyber offense correlated with defense
• Active defense integrated with strike forces
• Crisis Management Training and Whole of Government Innovations
• How to leverage what the US and non-GCC allies can provide for
deterrence in depth?
18. Conceptualized as a Kill Web
• The new approach is one which can be expressed in terms of a kill web, that is a
US and allied force so scalable that if an ally goes on a presence mission and is
threatened by a ramp up of force from a Russia or China, that that presence force
can reach back to relevant allies as well as their own force structure.
• The inherent advantage for the US and its allies is the capability to shape a more
integrated force which can leverage one another in a crisis.
• A shift to a kill web approach to force building, training and operations is a
foundation from which the US and its allies can best leverage the force we have
and the upgrade paths to follow.
• A kill web linked force allows a modest force package – economy of force – to
reach back to other combat assets to provide for enhanced options in a crisis or
to ramp up the level of conflict if that is being dictated by the situation.
• https://sldinfo.com/2017/09/the-maritime-services-and-the-kill-web/
19. The Offensive-Defensive Enterprise
• The evolution of 21st century weapon technology is breaking down the barriers between offensive and
defensive systems. Is missile defense about providing defense or is it about enabling global reach, for offense
or defense?
• Likewise, the new 5th generation aircraft have been largely not understood because they are inherently
multi-domain systems, which can be used for forward defense or forward offensive operations.
• Indeed, an inherent characteristic of many new systems is that they are really about presence and putting a
grid over an operational area, and therefore they can be used to support strike or defense within an
integrated approach.
• In the 20th Century, surge was built upon the notion of signaling. One would put in a particular combat
capability – a Carrier Battle Group, Amphibious Ready Group, or Air Expeditionary Wing – to put down your
marker and to warn a potential adversary that you were there and ready to be taken seriously. If one needed
to, additional forces would be sent in to escalate and build up force.
• With the new multi-domain systems – 5th generation aircraft and Aegis for example – the key is presence
and integration able to support strike or defense in a single operational presence capability. Now the
adversary cannot be certain that you are simply putting down a marker.
• This is what former Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne calls the offense-defense enterprise
20. Reshaping Strategy
• The strategic thrust of integrating modern systems is to create a grid that can operate in
an area as a seamless whole, able to strike or defend simultaneously. Inherent in such an
enterprise is scalability and reach-back. By deploying the tron warfare grid or a
C2/Information superiority “honeycomb”, the shooters in the enterprise can reach back
to each other to enable the entire grid of operation, for either defense or offense.
• Put in other terms, presence is augmented at the same time as scalability is as well. This
provides a significant force multiplier across the crisis management spectrum.
• In effect, what could be established from the United States perspective is a plug-in
approach rather than a push approach to projecting power. The allies are always forward
deployed; the United States does not to attempt to replicate what those allies need to do
in their own defense.
• But what the United States can offer is strategic depth to those allies. At the same time if
interoperability and interactive sustainability are recognized as a strategic objective of
the first order, then the United States can shape a more realistic approach than one
which now rests on trying to proliferate power projection platforms, when neither the
money nor the numbers are there.
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25. For Further Information
• https://sldinfo.com
• https://defense.info
• https://operationnels.com/
• https://breakingdefense.com