{"id":10650,"date":"2018-05-23T19:03:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T19:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2018\/05\/23\/the-army-needs-to-get-better-at-great-power-competition\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:33:45","slug":"the-army-needs-to-get-better-at-great-power-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/c2-comms\/2018\/05\/23\/the-army-needs-to-get-better-at-great-power-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Army needs to get better at great power competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army has been undergoing an iterative process to update its doctrine and operating concept as it adapts to a 21st world and the need to more seamlessly employ effects across the five domains of warfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, after a little over a year of shifts, the Army is making a slight semantic change to its emerging concept to better encapsulate the activities that occur before, during and after conflict, as well as to assuage partner services, agencies and nations for greater buy-in.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/c2-comms\/2018\/04\/11\/in-the-move-to-multi-domain-operations-what-gets-lost\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3970744.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">In the move to multi-domain operations, what gets lost?<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">As the services debate the future of so-called multi-domain operations, some fear current service-specifics could be at risk in favor of a more joint concept.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking via teleconference at the LANPAC conference hosted May 22 by AUSA in Honolulu, Hawaii, Gen. Stephen Townsend announced the shift from \u201cmultidomain battle\u201d to \u201cmultidomain operations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Citing a multitude of reasons for the slight name change, Townsend, the commanding general of Training and Doctrine Command, said ultimately \u201coperations\u201d is more all-encompassing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBattles are often a necessary part of war, battles win fights, battles take ground, but battles in and of themselves do not win war,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe word battle also doesn\u2019t really apply to the part of conflict that happens before actual armed conflict, the competition phase, both prior to conflict and after conflict states are in a state of competition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The state of play today is not really defined by battle so much as constant competition, he noted, explaining the U.S., and particularly the Army, must \u201cbe more focused on winning in competition prior to armed conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He analogized the current state of affairs to what it would be like if the U.S. <span class=\"js-paste-start-AFTFG4QREBDBTHEZCKBOTZ6GEU\"> men\u2019s <span class=\"js-paste-end-AFTFG4QREBDBTHEZCKBOTZ6GEU\"> national soccer team showed up to the World Cup while adversaries went to an entirely different country and stadium. While the U.S. is waiting for the games to start, competitors announce they\u2019ve won the championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is where [in] competition we\u2019re not playing on the same pitch,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have to do a better job in competition of knowing where the game\u2019s being played, what the game is. Winning battles isn\u2019t necessary going to win a competition and vice versa.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Townsend also drew parallels to the Cold War in which the two main competitors, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, were locked in competition but showed restraint in never engaging in armed conflict throughout the 44-year salvo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Joint buy-in<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Townsend explained during his presentation, as he had in past appearances, that while the Army is leading the way \u2014 even having published the first draft of its doctrine titled multidomain battle version 1.0 \u2014 there needs to be joint and multinational buy-in for this to be successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRight now there are only Army signatures on multidomain concept documents. We want to get other services\u2019 leaders to sign on. We will get there I think but we\u2019ve got to do some work there,\u201d he said during a March 8 speaking engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He articulated that the Army\u2019s goal is to release multidomain operations 1.5 in the fall. This will be \u201can evolution of our concept, largely will be U.S. Army document but we want it to be joint service and multinational partner capable, that document,\u201d he said, adding there is currently great collaboration within the DoD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This collaboration was exemplified during an April symposium hosted by the Army and Marine Corps on the future of multidomain operations. 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