{"id":37665,"date":"2018-10-09T14:15:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T14:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2018\/10\/09\/from-multi-domain-battle-to-multi-domain-operations-army-evolves-its-guiding-concept\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:19:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:19:35","slug":"from-multi-domain-battle-to-multi-domain-operations-army-evolves-its-guiding-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/it-networks\/2018\/10\/09\/from-multi-domain-battle-to-multi-domain-operations-army-evolves-its-guiding-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"From Multi-Domain Battle to Multi-Domain Operations: Army evolves its guiding concept"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Army has moved on from calling its guiding warfighting concept \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2016\/10\/03\/the-multi-domain-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Multi-Domain Battle<\/a>\u201d to the more encompassing \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/defense-news-conference\/2018\/09\/05\/whats-standing-in-the-way-of-multidomain-operations\/\" target=\"_blank\">Multi-Domain Operations<\/a>,\u201d but the concept has undergone a metamorphosis that goes beyond just a name change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To reflect changes made to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2018\/08\/28\/multidomain-operations-task-force-cuts-teeth-in-pacific\/\" target=\"_blank\">MDO<\/a> concept, the Army plans to soon \u2014 likely by the end of the month \u2014 roll out its MDO 1.5 version of the concept after several years of evaluating what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2016\/10\/04\/us-army-sets-sights-on-multi-domain-operations\/\" target=\"_blank\">MDO <\/a>truly means on the current and future battlefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs a concept, this is not the final answer,\u201d Gen. Stephen Townsend, the Army\u2019s Training and Doctrine Command commander, said in the foreword of an advance summary of MDO 1.5 obtained by Defense News. \u201cIt is the evolution of a larger effort to develop and revise Army thinking and requirements to defeat multiple layers of stand-off in both competition and conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe will revise and update this concept as we learn from other services, allies and partners, and our adversaries. The evolution of this concept into doctrine and practice will inform the way the Army recruits, trains, educates and drives constant improvement and change to ensure the U.S. Army can deter, fight and win on any battlefield now and in the future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the 1.5 version, the service has added \u201cextensive\u201d clarity, Lt. Gen. Eric Wesley, the Army Capabilities Integration Center director, told Defense News in an interview leading up to the Association of the United States Army\u2019s annual conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou\u2019ll find much more detail in what we describe in terms of how we would conduct multidomain operations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second major change to the concept is the addition of \u201csignificant analytical rigor,\u201d Wesley said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou could argue that multidomain battle was a hypothesis, and now it has truly evolved into a legitimate concept with reams of data and experimentation and analytics behind it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>For more coverage from the AUSA annual meeting, click here.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army has been able to refine the concept through a variety of exercises and wargaming simulations, including the first Joint Warfighting Assessment 18 held in Germany this past spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMultidomain 1.5 is in many ways a product of what we learned from JWA,\u201d Wesley said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it\u2019s also a product of what the Army learned through its new Multidomain Operations Task Force, which has been focused on refining the concept through exercises in the Indo-Pacific area of operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army also put more energy into the role of multidomain or how multidomain operations would be executed across echelons, to include very specific requirements to ensure units are effective at carrying out MDO, according to Wesley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe ability of Army formations at echelon to converge capabilities in multiple ways and sequences provides the joint force commander with options to impose additional complexity on the enemy,\u201d the MDO 1.5 summary states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also lays out in detail what each echelon is responsible for when converging to penetrate enemy defenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service and its joint partners are also coming together to better define \u201cconvergence\u201d in MDO and what that really looks like. While multidomain battle emphasizes fighting across all domains \u2014 land, air, sea, space and cyber \u2014 the evolved concept recognizes that in a contested environment, the joint forces won\u2019t have dominance across the entire spectrum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you\u2019re not guaranteed dominance in all domains, all the time, then you have to align them so that you get a greater output than the individual parts,\u201d Wesley said. \u201cThis idea of convergence means that we have to be able to continuously optimize the various domains throughout a campaign, which poses a challenge because many of these domains are controlled by other services or much higher echelons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Synchronizing or creating convergence allows the joint force to create overmatch, Wesley added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The concept as a whole continues to recognize that the United States&#8217; peer adversaries \u2014 Russia and China \u2014 have invested in ways to mitigate its capabilities, and now the U.S. has found itself in a stand-off situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe find ourselves in this position where we are vulnerable to the investments of stand-off, making our ability to conduct expeditionary deployment very difficult,\u201d Wesley said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it goes beyond adversaries&#8217; physical investment in systems like long-range precision fires, their influence on social media, or even a concern that adversaries have meddled in U.S. elections, for example, Wesley said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s the first round in the stand-off engagement,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The concept recognizes there are two different stand-off periods: competition and conflict. But it also recognizes that sometimes it\u2019s hard to tell what period of stand-off one is in because of hybrid warfare and the ambiguity that comes with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army addresses solutions to the problem of stand-off through the moniker \u201ccompete, penetrate, dis-integrate, exploit and recompete,\u201d Wesley said, which describes the path the Army must take using its capabilities to be successful against an adversary should it move from competition to conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That path is detailed in the concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the service had originally planned to just move straight to publishing 2.0 version of MDO, it decided it needed a 1.5 and accelerated its publication because the Army wanted to make sure that its modernization efforts and priorities actually align with its concept, according to Wesley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, to not get 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