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Defense of the Pacific may depend on it."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Defending the Pacific region requires seamless integration between the U.S. military services, but that requires a joint force concept aimed at deterring near-peer competitors across all domains, according to military leaders in charge of strategy and concept development, who spoke Sept. 4 at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/defense-news-conference\/\" target=_blank>Defense News Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But creating a joint concept isn\u2019t easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The services currently have their own war-fighting concepts. The Army, for instance, developed the Multi-Domain Operations concept set to become doctrine. The next step is to evolve MDO into a joint concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have effectively, over the past years, been able to federate various services\u2019 concepts to achieve an outcome,\u201d said Lt. Gen. Eric Wesley, the deputy commanding general of the Army\u2019s Futures and Concepts Center. \u201cBut in this environment of multidomain operations, where you have to be able to rapidly integrate all domains in order to achieve overmatch, we think we need a solid description of how the joint force sees that [fight] going, and I think that is the next significant effort the services should get after.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s essential the services focus on building the joint force, said Lt. Gen. Eric Smith, the head of Marine Corps Combat Development Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEverything we do is predicated on the fact that we are part of the joint force. Nobody is doing this alone against a comprehensive adversary,\u201d Smith explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Army\u2019s MDO concept, the service must be ready to fight across all domains \u2014 air, land, sea, space and cyber \u2014 which makes it imperative for the concept to become joint, Army leadership argues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part of the concept calls for calibrated force posture, \u201cbeing there is value all in itself,\u201d Wesley said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, near-peer competitors \u2014 particularly Russia and China \u2014 \u201care willing to compete left of conflict, and they are achieving their goals left of conflict,\u201d he said. \u201cSo the degree to which we find ourselves forward postured will measure the degree to which we can effectively counter the competition for both China and Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to needing each service to be forwardly postured, the services must to integrate, Department of Defense leaders have said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis idea of convergence will be critical, and that is the joint force\u2019s ability to converge capabilities,\u201d Wesley said, such as the ability to use any sensor or any through any command-and-control node across any of the services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While integration of the services already exists on some level, noted Vice Adm. Stuart Munsch, deputy chief of naval operations for operations, plans and strategy, the military will reach \u201ca degree of integration you have never imagined before\u201d to include space and cyber domains \u201cthat we traditionally don\u2019t think about that need to be brought in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That integration means developing standards and interfaces, but \u201cwe have to make sure we bake this in at the very beginning,\u201d said Maj. Gen. Michael Fantini, the director of Air Force war-fighting integration capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are committed to do this. 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