ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY

As he prepares to complete his tenure as Army chief of staff, Gen. James McConville is worried about the tough recruiting environment but optimistic that the service is doing the right things to get the best people.

“I’ll be straight up, recruiting is challenging right now,” McConville said July 18 during an Association of the U.S. Army Noon Report webinar where he discussed a variety of topics with retired Gen. Bob Brown, AUSA president and CEO.

Two new units being stood up in Europe will provide the Army with capabilities to “close any gaps” in combat power on the battlefield, the commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa said.

In remarks at the Fires Conference 2021, hosted virtually by the Fires Center of Excellence at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Gen. Christopher Cavoli said the first Multi-Domain Task Force in Europe will “close any gaps in combat ratios that we see in a ground force adversary … with an advantage against us.”

The Army is working to put its Multi-Domain Operations concept into action during a new exercise slated to begin this fall.

Project Convergence is expected to become an annual exercise designed to help the Army learn how to “connect things and bring things together,” said Gen. Mike Murray, commander of Army Futures Command.

“Within our Multi-Domain Operations concept, convergence is one of the key tenets, how do you bring the five domains together,” Murray said in June during an Association of the U.S. Army Thought Leaders livestream event.

A new Land Warfare Paper from the Association of the U.S. Army suggests the evolving Multi-Domain Operations concept embraced by the Army and being studied by the Joint Staff may contain two critical flaws.

Written by Maj. Amos Fox, the paper says the Army took a “positive first step” to address future threats across land, air, sea, space and cyberspace with technological innovations and revised doctrine.

The U.S. military must balance short-term readiness with future capabilities as it prepares to deal with near-peer adversaries and operate in a “competitive space [that] has changed dramatically,” according to a new paper published by the Association of the U.S. Army.

Written by retired Gen. William Wallace, a former commander of Army Training and Doctrine Command, “Multi-Domain Operations in Context” outlines how competitors like Russia and China developed warfare targeting Western weaknesses—and exposed some shortcomings of the U.S. military.