Transcript Assured Mobility and Force Protection At War and Transforming BG William McCoy Assistant Commandant, US Army Engineer School 10 Sept 03 11/7/2015

Assured Mobility and Force Protection
At War and Transforming
BG William McCoy
Assistant Commandant, US Army Engineer School
10 Sept 03
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A Unique Crossroads…A Unique Opportunity
Sept 11 Attack
Operation
Enduring Freedom
Operation
Iraqi Freedom
FUTURE
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The Catalyst of Transformation: Tomorrow’s Threat
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Multiple Actors: State and Non-state
Multiple Types of Combatants: military, para-military,
guerilla, terrorists, criminals, disgruntled populace
Views the US as predictable, casualty adverse, unwilling
to engage in close combat, and overly reliant on
precision technology
Strategic Pattern: prolong the conflict on his terms to
advance their specific cause -- outlast US commitment
Operational Pattern: deny/slow US access, seek noncontiguous operations / non-linear lines, aggressive
information warfare,
Tactical Pattern:
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Adaptive / learning / no rules
Ready access to “peer” technology
Achieves opportunistic overmatch: hide-strike-hide
Capitalizes on home-court advantage
Attacks C2 and Logistics
Seeks sanctuary to reduce US advantage
Willingly uses populace to mask and shield actions
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Responding to the Future:
A Joint Foundation for Change
Strategic Guidance – Assure, Dissuade, Deter, and Defeat
Future Joint Force Attributes – Networked, Decision Superior,
Fully Integrated, Expeditionary, Decentralized, Adaptable, Lethal
Future Force Characteristics – Responsive, Deployable, Agile,
Versatile, Lethal, Survivable, Sustainable
 Strategic
responsiveness -
The
Force
TheFuture
Objective
Force
Doctrine
Train,
Doctrine
Train,
Alert,
Alert,&
Deploy,
Deploy, &
Sustain
Sustain
Leader
Training
People
Development
Leader
Training
People
Development
Factory Home
Station
Facilities
Facilities
Joint,
Interagency &
Multi-National
JIACG
JIACG
Future Force “Factory to Foxhole”
 Promptly responding OF
formations conduct
entry and shaping
 OF conducts decisive
operations, to include
UA
UA
FCS
FCS
strengthens
deterrence and
preemption
Security
 Strategic
Deterrence
operations to assure
access and set conditions  Major
for decision
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operational maneuver
from strategic distances
Full
 Defend
Spectrum
the US
Dominance
 Deter
 Homeland
Forward
FCS
FCS
Combat
Operations
simultaneous and
 Stability
distributed operations,
that achieve accelerated
Operations
decision through
overwhelming tempo and
direct attack of decisive
points and enemy centers
of gravity
 Swiftly
Defeat
 Decisive
Defeat
 Other
SSCs
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The Engine of Transformation: Key Concepts
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Rapidly Deployable Force: Train-Alert-Deploy
Operational maneuver over strategic distances
Information Superiority manifested in the COP
Battle Command on the move
Simultaneous Rapid Decisive Operations
Dominant Maneuver at operational and tactical levels
Maneuver Support to enable and protect freedom of action
Assured Mobility to ensure complete freedom of maneuver
Flexible / Tailorable Echelons of Command
Effects Based Combined Arms Formations
Full Spectrum Operations
Network Fires / Effects For Cooperative engagement
Maneuver Sustainment
See
First
Understand
First
Act
First
Finish
Decisively
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The Broad Context of Maneuver Support
Maneuver Support Definition: Maneuver Support shapes,
leverages, and mitigates the effects of the operational
environment to enable, enhance, and protect strategic,
operational, and tactical freedom of action.
TACTICAL
UA
OPERATIONAL
UEx
UEy / JTF
STRATEGIC
RCC
Understand Battlespace Environment
Enable Theater Access
Provide Assured Mobility
Deny Enemy Freedom of Action
Enable Force Protection and Security
Engage and Control Populations
Neutralize Hazards and Restore the Environment
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Assured Mobility: Interdependent Imperatives
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Azimuth Check
• We’ve seen tomorrow’s threat…today
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Multiple actors: state and non-state
A strategy centered on attrition and challenging US resolve
Asymmetric use of “peer technology”
Opportunistic strikes on soft targets
Use of urban environment / populace to shield actions
An adaptive and learning enemy
• We’ve applied tomorrow’s concepts…today
– Non contiguous AO’s / Non Linear Lines
– Simultaneous Rapid Decisive Operations
– Joint, Interagency, Multinational operations at all levels…even
the tactical level
– Full Spectrum Operations: MCO and SASO simultaneously in
a give area of operations
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Assured Mobility
Proven Required Capabilities
• Detection and neutralization of explosive
hazards in concert with tactical and
operational maneuver
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At standoff from the platform
At standoff from the force -- breach ahead
All explosive hazards (mines, IEDs, UXOs)
In open, complex, and urban terrain
…especially urban
• Automated linkages between predict - detect
- “effect” - predict
Assessment:
- We have not enabled the soldier, platform, or
formation with true standoff detection
- The force is not capable of neutralizing explosive
hazards in concert with maneuver
- The hazard problem set is beyond mines…UXOs
and IEDs are the major casualty producer
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Assured Mobility
Proven Required Capabilities
• Enable mounted maneuver
through complex / urban terrain
• Enable dismounted small unit
maneuver into and through urban
structures at the point and time
of their choosing
Assessment:
- The threat will seek sanctuary in urban
terrain
- Our mounted and dismounted force loses its
ability to gain a position of advantage in
complex terrain
- The soldier must be able to create an
unexpected avenue of approach
- UGVs are essential to soldier mobility and
protection in urban environment
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Deny Enemy Freedom of Action
Proven Required Capabilities
• Ability to prevent enemy from influencing
friendly maneuver and movement
• Scalable, tunable, and dynamic sensoreffects munitions system (Unattended
Sentinel) to control:
– “threat” maneuver through an area
– “threat” access to a critical facility or mobility
nodes
– From tactical and operational standoff
• System of System to achieve full spectrum of
complimentary effects: lethal to non-lethal
Assessment:
- The force does not have a viable means to deny
the spectrum of threats freedom of action
- Unattended sentinels with a full range of effects
are essential to preventing his use of impediments
and to denying threat maneuver
- Munitions must include non-lethal / lethal to be a
viable combat multiplier for the commander
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Control Populations / Enable Protection and Security
Proven Required Capabilities
• Integrated approach to non-lethal
effects on soldier and platform systems
to isolate the full spectrum of threats
• Vulnerability assessment tools -“counter-demo” -- enhance survivability
of critical assets
• Small unit protective obstacle systems
for rapid transitions and critical
stationary assets
Assessment:
- Population centers will continue increase in size
and numbers
- We will continue to rely heavily on manpower
intensive approaches to conduct these operations
-We need to improve non-lethal capabilities to
provide Commanders a more flexible approach to
enabling protection and security
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Neutralize Hazards and Restore the Environment
Proven Required Capabilities
• Area clearance of explosive hazards
– During MCO in support of APODs / Log
facilities
– During SASO in support of restoration
– Battlefield Munitions Destruction
• Includes the full range of explosive
hazards
• With minimal risk exposure to soldiers
Assessment:
- We have improved area clearance…but, only for
contingencies and post hostilities
- We have not enabled the force with a full spectrum
capability that is highly deployable,
modular/scalable, and able to handle high volume
missions efficiently
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The Azimuth Must Remain Centered On…
• An integrated approach to C4ISR so all systems feed the
COP…the power of Information Dominance and real time
situation awareness may be the #1 combat multiplier
• IMS must be the cornerstone for denying enemy freedom of
action…must provide commander with flexible response
options for any threat in any terrain
• All systems must have an integrated non-lethal capability to
enable measured, full-scale response
• Provide standoff detection and neutralization of all explosive
hazards…well beyond countermine
• We must explore how to give the soldier a position of
advantage in complex terrain: precision structural entry
delivered by UGV
• The use of UGVs to reduce soldier exposure…but, must
have autonomous behaviors to reduce task load
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The Soldiers on the Team Must Remain Our Focus
Everything we do, every system we adopt, and every
organization change we make, serves one purpose; to get
these soldiers to the fight with everything we can provide
them to accomplish the mission.
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Back Up Slides
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ESSAYONS
"Let US Try"
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