The Joint Warfighting Concept "is an excellent concept, but the concept is just that it's a concept. That concept is going to drive experimentation, it's going to drive future capabilities and future doctrine, but right now it's just the concept and we're still learning with it," VCJCS Gen. John Hyten says.
DF-17 hypersonic missiles at China’s 70th anniversary military parade
WASHINGTON: In a clear sign that China really is the Biden administration’s tracking threat against which much of its strategy, budget and policy will be forged, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin today approved a classified directive ordering the military to shrink the gap between what it says and what it does regarding China.
“The efforts I am directing today will improve the Department’s ability to revitalize our network of allies and partners, bolster deterrence, and accelerate the development of new operational concepts, emerging capabilities, future force posture, and a modernized civilian and military workforce,” Austin said in a statement.
WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has signed the strategy guiding the massive effort to knit troopers on the front lines to F-35s, submarines, satellites, ships and commanders across the globe, known as Joint All Domain Command and Control. The approval by Austin “brings order to our efforts in the command and control arena” Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, the head of J6, told reporters at the Pentagon’s briefing room today. His appearance marked the first time a top-level briefing has been held on the topic of All Domain Operations, showing clearly how integral what has been dismissed by some has become a central aspect of American warfighting. One of the greatest challenges to JADC2, recognized from the beginning, was how to ensure the services, who have acquisition authority over new programs and tend to be wedded to the systems they have in pocket, would design systems that could share data reliably with every weapon and every service no matter what domain t
The Joint Warfighting Concept will "envision much smaller force elements that are inherently reliant on very rapid mobility" within a theater, says TRANSCOM head Gen. Stephen Lyons.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on May 25, 2021 at 1:32 PM
An Azerbaijani vehicle launches an Israeli-made Harpy (Harop) attack drone.
WASHINGTON: The Army’s year-old Cyber Warfare Support Battalion has “fully fielded” the first of 12 Expeditionary Cyber Teams, the head of Army Cyber Command said today.
“We’re going to get the first ECT out this summer [to] run it through its paces,” Lt. Gen. Stephen Fogarty told the Association of Old Crows CEMA conference. “We’re going to try out a series of ideas that we had” in the field.
“Much of it is has been influenced by the lessons-learned” from recent conflicts, he said, especially the Azerbaijan-Armenia war over Nagorno-Karabakh.