{"id":31071,"date":"2018-08-14T16:47:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T16:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2018\/08\/14\/to-win-future-conflicts-combatant-commands-must-be-integrated\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:30:10","slug":"to-win-future-conflicts-combatant-commands-must-be-integrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/show-reporter\/dodiis\/2018\/08\/14\/to-win-future-conflicts-combatant-commands-must-be-integrated\/","title":{"rendered":"To win future conflicts, combatant commands must be integrated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The head of Strategic Command has outlined a vision for the future to better integrate war-fighting functions and capabilities to keep pace with adversaries in an increasingly dynamic environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responsible for a diverse set of missions, STRATCOM has been structured in stovepipes: the nuclear triad (itself three stovepipes), space, conventional global strike and missile defense. Yet Gen. John Hyten, speaking Aug. 13 at the annual DoDIIS conference in Omaha, Nebraska (STRATCOM\u2019s home), envisions a future in which the command is one innovative war-fighting team that deters conflict and delivers decisive capabilities from, in and through all domains, wherever and whenever needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adversaries such as China have begun to integrate their disparate, yet related capabilities. With the Strategic Support Force, established in 2015, China has organized space, counter space, cyber, offensive, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in the same command, Hyten said, because they understand the need to integrate information.<\/p>\n\n\n\t