{"id":16250,"date":"2019-09-08T16:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/09\/08\/us-armys-multidomain-force-emerges-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:33:22","slug":"us-armys-multidomain-force-emerges-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2019\/09\/08\/us-armys-multidomain-force-emerges-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army\u2019s multidomain force emerges in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 Though the Multi-Domain Task Force<\/a> in Europe is only beginning to take form, it\u2019s already expected to help the U.S. Army shape its doctrine relevant to possible ground campaigns against near-peer competitor Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far the Army has largely focused on how the Multi-Domain Operations, or MDO, concept might look in the Indo-Pacific theater<\/a>. Over the past couple of years, the service brought back lessons learned from its pilot Multi-Domain Task Force in the region and applied them to the MDO concept that will ultimately serve as the Army\u2019s primary war-fighting doctrine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Defense Strategy, released last year, focuses on great power competition with Russia and China, and the MDO concept is designed to enable the U.S. Army to operate against those near-peer competitors across air, land, sea, space and cyber domains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The doctrine is intended<\/a> to lay out how Army capability and strategy will prevent conflict, shape the security environment, win in large-scale ground combat operations and consolidate gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The task force will provide U.S. forces and allies in the theater with multiple options to deal with great power competition, Army Chief Gen. James McConville told Defense News<\/a> in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re building capabilities of the multidomain task forces,\u201d he said, \u201caround information intelligence, cyber, electronic warfare and space capability. And then based on that, they\u2019ll be integrated into long-range precision fires and effects capability and then supported by the other types of enablers that the force needs to do their mission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army sees the Multi-Domain Task Force as different in each theater where those types of units are deployed, McConville said. \u201cWe will augment them based on what they need to conduct the mission,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\t