Amid rising tensions in the Pacific theater, the top Army commander in the region wants soldiers to be ready for the future fight, not ones from the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNobody wants war, that\u2019s for sure. Nobody prays for peace harder than a soldier,\u201d Gen. Robert Brown, commander of U.S. Army Pacific, told Army Times. \u201cBut we have to be ready.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brown said preparing for the future fight focuses on multi-domain battle and joint integration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe want to use the new things we\u2019ve learned,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd so that\u2019s one of the challenges \u2014 as we\u2019re developing ways that will work better in the future and validating them in exercises \u2026 then you have to incorporate that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The U.S. military is already successful at joint fighting, but Brown says it needs to get even better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to move from a joint interdependence where we depend on each other to a true joint integration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This includes leveraging all of the domains \u2014 air, land, sea, cyber and space \u2014 and making sure information can be shared among the services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSo maybe you can\u2019t do it on land alone, but if you maneuver in cyber, that opens up an opening in the air that then opens up an opening on the ground, and you end up presenting multiple dilemmas to those that would do you harm,\u201d he said. \u201c[It gives] yourself multiple options, which is what we want.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brown said the Army will send a multi-domain task force to Pacific Pathways during 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The exercise, which made its debut in 2014, employs a unit through a \u201ctraining pathway.\u201d The unit spends three to four months in a series of exercises with foreign militaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The task force consists of about 1,000 troops who will go to Japan or Australia, for example, during the exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey\u2019ll be able to have capabilities we\u2019ve never had before, such as extensive cyber capability and space capability,\u201d Brown said. \u201cThey\u2019ll be integrated better than they\u2019ve ever been before with and sea, all from what used to be a traditional land force only.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The task force will experiment with such capabilities as air and missile defense, electronic warfare and long-range fires, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Army will take lessons and feedback from the task force to see how to better integrate those capabilities into future training scenarios and real-world missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DEVELOPING REGIONAL LEADERS<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n
USARPAC launched a program at the end of August to immerse junior leaders in the Pacific region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAll the forces in the Pacific are aligned to the Pacific region. They get to know it really well,\u201d Brown said. \u201cBut \u2026 for leaders, there was no way to train for that region. A lot of them would read up on it on their own, and there\u2019d be training programs here and there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Regional Leader Development Program, however, gives service members a familiarization with the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The seven-week course broadens and develops the junior leaders, Brown said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSo they go to a course at the Asia Pacific Security Center, for example, and they learn about the region from experts, professors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then the students immerse themselves in the region for several weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe take them to multiple countries,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd at the end, what you have are these junior leaders, captains and mid-level [non-commissioned officers] who become experts in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The service members go back to their units scattered throughout the Pacific with a greater knowledge, whether they\u2019re involved with the Korean Peninsula or a disaster response somewhere, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou now have an expert,\u201d he said. \u201cSo it\u2019s an investment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s starting as a pilot program in the Pacific, but Brown said the goal is to do this for other Army regions. The pilot course has 40 students from all branches of the military with the majority from the Army, Brown said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The program has partnered with outside universities, as well, so those who participate can use their tuition assistance to complete 15 more credit hours to complete a master\u2019s in international relations, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next iteration of the program will kick off in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe think leader development is so important in the future because to do that multi-domain battle, you have to have empowered people who are really developed,\u201d Brown said. \u201cNow things have changed so much just in the world, the velocity of human interaction, the complexity of things in the world, that you have to have leaders that thrive in ambiguity and chaos, not comfortable, but that thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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