The Army’s evolving Multi-Domain Operations concept for dealing with great-power and peer competition and possible war is driving a “renaissance of thinking,” but not fast enough considering the threats, according to a new Land Warfare Paper published by the Association of the U.S. Army.
Much as Rangers have helped lead the way for the U.S.
The Multi-Domain Operations concept was conceived by the Army, but it is inherently joint in nature.
This spring, the Pentagon will undertake the largest deployment of American forces to Europe in the past quarter-century.
The Army has begun moving the first of about 20,000 pieces of equipment bound for Europe as part of the largest overseas exercise in more than two decades.
On Jan. 23, vehicles, heavy equipment and materiel were loaded for rail transport and onward shipping from Fort Hood and Fort Bliss in Texas and Fort Stewart, Georgia. The equipment is bound for ports in Europe as part of Defender-Europe 20, the Army announced in a news release. The shipping will continue through late February.
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A multinational exercise in Europe set to be the Army’s largest deployment of U.S.-based troops in 25 years will begin in February in the first of a series of such exercises planned to demonstrate the Army’s ability to deploy and project power globally.
Defender-Europe 2020 will include the participation of some 37,000 U.S., partner and allied troops, including 9,000 Europe-based U.S. troops. The bulk of the activities will take place across 10 countries in April and May, linking five named exercises. The exercise is set to conclude in August.
Army Gen. Mark A. Milley has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, succeeding Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr. as top military adviser to the commander in chief and defense secretary.
Retired Army Gen. John W. Vessey Jr., a World War II veteran who rose from a Minnesota National Guard private to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has died.
The 94-year-old was Army vice chief of staff in 1982 when he was selected by President Ronald Reagan to be the military’s top uniformed leader. When he retired in 1985 after 46 years of service, he was the last four-star World War II combat veteran still on active duty.
More than 400 “Sky Soldiers” from the Army’s 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade launched a battalion-sized air assault at a Polish training area that proved to be a signature moment of Anakonda 16, the massive two-week field exercise that took place in mid-June.
The soldiers were delivered to their objective by more than 35 helicopters from two Polish aviation brigades and the U.S. Army’s Germany-based 12th Combat Aviation Brigade.
