We must also become sensor-shooter agnostic in all our platforms, and we must develop a common operating picture. In order to present the enemy with multiple dilemmas, we must converge and integrate our solutions and approaches before the battle starts. The rate and speed of current and future world events will not allow us the time to synchronize federated solutions.
We must be able to penetrate their defenses at a time and place of our choosing, in more than one domain, by opening windows of domain superiority to allow maneuver inside our adversary’s integrated defense. We must be able to get past our adversary’s integrated defensive capabilities, avoid domain isolation and fracturing, and preserve our freedom of action. Multidomain battle (MDB) is a concept designed to address this changing world. It will no longer be possible to maintain total domain dominance in all domains all the time. Future adversaries will possess significant integrated defense capabilities, integrated air defenses, and long-range fires, as well as sophisticated intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) offensive and defensive information electronic warfare and cyber capabilities. In the future, we can expect all domains to be contested.
Third, fix us and do not allow our forces to maneuver and bring all of our elements of combat power (including leadership) to bear in order to gain a position of advantage. Second, try to fracture our operational framework by isolating the air domain from the land domain in order to defeat air and land forces in sequence. Once established, we have the operational advantage and can provide overwhelming logistic, firepower, and command and control (C2) support. First, do not let the United States and its allies gain access to the area of operations. It is now clear that they have learned three macro lessons. Our potential adversaries have studied our battlefield successes since the First Gulf War. Air Force/Keifer Bowes) Multidomain Battle: A New Concept for a New World Special Operations Command Exercise Emerald Warrior, Avon Park, Florida, Ma(U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey participates in U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) and Air Combat Command (ACC) are doing to provide input to the Army and Air Force, collaboratively, to integrate and converge their individual land and air domain capabilities in order to create the merged multidomain capabilities that will be required for success in future combat.
The purpose of this article then is to describe what the U.S. But as advancements in cyber and the electromagnetic spectrum, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, biotechnology, three-dimensional printing, and a host of others continue to accelerate and proliferate across multiple domains, and as our potential adversaries adjust their strategies by utilizing these advancements asymmetrically in order to counter our strengths, we can no longer develop domain-specific solutions that require time and effort to synchronize and federate.
We would then try to synchronize a series of federated solutions, developed somewhat in isolation to deal with the problems posed in a specific domain, into a joint solution. These differences have been based largely on each Service’s primary operational domain-the limitations and opportunities presented by operating on land, on the sea, and in the air. Historically, each Service (the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard) has pursued separate and unique conceptual approaches to the dual requirements of deterrence and protection. To accomplish this mission, the various Services within DOD-individually and collectively-must be trained and ready today, while simultaneously preparing for evolving threats in the future. The mission of the Department of Defense (DOD) is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of the Nation. Holmes is Commanding General of Air Combat Command. Perkins is the Commanding General of U.S.