{"id":18345,"date":"2021-03-24T14:53:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T14:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/03\/24\/overmatch-is-fleeting-how-the-us-armys-multidomain-task-force-will-help-keep-joint-force-dominant\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:44:19","slug":"overmatch-is-fleeting-how-the-us-armys-multidomain-task-force-will-help-keep-joint-force-dominant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2021\/03\/24\/overmatch-is-fleeting-how-the-us-armys-multidomain-task-force-will-help-keep-joint-force-dominant\/","title":{"rendered":"Overmatch is fleeting: How the US Army\u2019s multidomain task force will help the military remain dominant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Army\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/federal-budget\/2020\/02\/21\/armys-7-billion-wish-list-would-boost-mutlidomain-units-and-wartime-funding\/\" target=_blank>multidomain task force<\/a> might have started out as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/global-force-symposium\/2018\/03\/29\/army-standing-up-pilot-task-force-to-develop-multidomain-battle-concepts\/\" target=_blank>experimental unit<\/a>, but a new plan to operationalize it puts the unit front and center in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2018\/10\/09\/from-multi-domain-battle-to-multi-domain-operations-army-evolves-its-guiding-concept\/\" target=_blank>competition, crisis and conflict<\/a> against adversaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move is detailed in an <a href=\"https:\/\/api.army.mil\/e2\/c\/downloads\/2021\/03\/23\/eeac3d01\/20210319-csa-paper-1-signed-print-version.pdf\" target=_blank>Army whitepaper<\/a> released March 23, in which the service acknowledges it must transform now to meet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2021\/03\/15\/new-army-doctrine-coming-summer-of-2022\/\" target=_blank>future challenges<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAlthough our Army still maintains overmatch, it is fleeting,\u201d the service wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBy 2040, China and Russia will have weaponized all instruments of national power to undermine the collective wills of the United States, Allies and partners, while simultaneously cultivating their own security partnerships. This will lead to an unstructured international environment where the line between conflict and peace is blurred,\u201d the whitepaper added. \u201cAs China and Russia continue to modernize their militaries, the Joint Force will find it increasingly difficult to deter their illicit and aggressive actions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army identifies China as the country that poses the \u201cmost enduring strategic challenge\u201d and is likely to reach \u201cmilitary parity\u201d with the U.S. military by 2040.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first multidomain task force was stood up at Joint Base Lewis-McChord several years ago to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2018\/08\/28\/multidomain-operations-task-force-cuts-teeth-in-pacific\/\" target=_blank>participate in Indo-Pacific Command theater exercises<\/a> to help inform the Army\u2019s Multi-Domain Operations war-fighting concept as it evolves into doctrine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This unit, which is aligned to U.S. Army Pacific, \u201crepresents the first of these units to bring multi-domain capabilities to combatant commanders,\u201d the paper noted. \u201cThe MDTF\u2019s All-Domain Operations Center, or ADOC, is currently under construction and will enable 24\/7 oversight of adversary contact in all domains.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MDTF is expected to be the centerpiece of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/defense-news-conference\/2020\/09\/10\/army-conducting-digital-louisiana-maneuvers-in-arizona-desert\/\" target=_blank>Project Convergence 2021<\/a>, an annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2020\/10\/12\/transforming-battlefield-geometry-whats-to-come-in-project-convergence-2021\/\" target=_blank>campaign of learning<\/a> that examines how the Army and the joint force will conduct multidomain operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa-digital-show-dailies\/2020\/10\/13\/how-two-man-us-army-crews-in-oceania-will-shape-defender-pacific-2021\/\" 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\/DefenderPacific.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\">How two-man US Army crews in Oceania will shape Defender Pacific 2021<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">After COVID-19 tests and quarantine on a tropical island, teams of two are building relationships in Oceania that will help to shape Defender Pacific when it grows in scale and scope in 2021.<\/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\">The Army has previously discussed plans to add a second MDTF assigned to the Pacific as well <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2021\/02\/03\/army-europe-commander-says-theater-needs-a-multidomain-task-force\/\" target=_blank>as another for Europe<\/a>, and the service recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/global-force-symposium\/2021\/03\/16\/new-strategy-sets-up-army-to-operate-in-increasingly-relevant-arctic\/\" target=_blank>unveiled plans to have one located in the Arctic.<\/a> But the whitepaper makes it clear the Army wants to build five of these units, with one that is \u201caligned for global response,\u201d the paper stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The document also noted the MDTF in the Arctic will be tailored to deal with \u201cmultiple threats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMDTFs represent agile development embodied in an organization,\u201d the paper stated. While the conventional force generation mans, trains and equips organizations and then provides them to combatant commanders, \u201cMDTFs break this mold.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEach MDTF will be designed and tailored to operate at the required echelon in order to meet the needs of the supported Joint Force commander,\u201d the paper read. \u201cFrom inception, each MDTF will be assigned or aligned to a Combatant Command, then built, trained, and exercised within the context of the Combatant Commander\u2019s requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The units will be scalable from operational to the strategic theater level. The hope is this design will result in more capable forces to operate in areas where access is denied by the opposing force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MDTFs will also serve as an \u201corganizational centerpiece for modernization,\u201d according to the document, because they will \u201caccelerate change through experimentation and testing during all-domain maneuver.\u201d They are also expected to help develop new ways to fight and will inform the Joint All-Domain Operations architecture and strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The units, acting as theater-level maneuver elements, will \u201csynchronize precision effects and precision fires in all domains against adversary [anti-access, area denial] networks in all domains, enabling joint forces to execute their [operational plan]-directed roles,\u201d the paper described.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army\u2019s war-fighting concept identifies multidomain operational phases as competition, crisis and conflict, and the paper put the MDTF\u2019s roles front and center in managing these phases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the competition phase, which is below the level of conflict, the Army plans to maintain forward presence while building and maintaining relationships with allies and partners around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MDTFs would serve as the tool to \u201cgain and maintain contact with our adversaries to support the rapid transition to crisis or conflict,\u201d according to the paper. \u201cWith requisite authorities, maneuver in all domains allows MDTFs to identify and secure positions of relative advantage from which they deny, delay, degrade, and disrupt the adversary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the crisis phase, the Army would hold adversaries\u2019 interests at risk and impose costs on their actions. MDTFs would play a critical role in deescalating crises and bring them back to competition \u201con favorable terms\u201d by \u201cdelivering non-kinetic and kinetic maneuver to demonstrate friendly resolve, impose costs and alter behaviors,\u201d the paper explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MDTFs would \u201cneutralize\u201d adversarial networks used to deny territorial access in order to give the joint force the ability to maneuver by employing \u201csynchronized combinations of non-kinetic and kinetic effects to disrupt, defeat and destroy A2\/AD capabilities,\u201d according to the document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A plan for how the Army will operate in the competition phase of Multi-Domain Operations is expected to be released shortly, Army Chief Gen. 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