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Effectively, Hyten \u2014 who will be a keynote speaker at September\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/conference.defensenews.com\/\">Defense News Conference<\/a> \u2014 laid out a vision in which every force can both defend itself and have a deep-strike capability to hold an enemy at bay, built around a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/opinion\/2020\/07\/10\/making-the-most-of-the-air-forces-investment-in-joint-all-domain-command-and-control\/\" target=_blank>unified command-and-control system<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA naval force can defend itself or strike deep. An air force can defend itself or strike deep. The Marines can defend itself or strike deep,\u201d he said. \u201cEverybody.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That \u201ceverybody\u201d includes international partners, Hyten added, as the U.S. operates so often in a coalition framework that this plan only works if it can integrate others. And for the entire structure to succeed, the Pentagon needs to create the Joint All-Domain Command and Control capability currently under development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo that\u2019s the path we\u2019ve been going down for a while. And it\u2019s starting to actually mature and come to fruition now,\u201d Hyten said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The day before Hyten\u2019s appearance, Victorino Mercado, assistant secretary of defense for strategy, plans and capabilities, talked with a small group of reporters, during which he noted: \u201cWe had disparate services [with] their concepts of fighting. We never really had a manner to pull all the services together to fight as a coherent unit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mercado also said the war-fighting concept will directly \u201cdrive some of our investments\u201d in the future and tie together a number of ongoing efforts within the department \u2014 including the individual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2020\/01\/24\/good-news-or-bad-pentagon-review-of-southcom-kicks-off\/\" target=_blank>combatant command reviews<\/a> and the Navy\u2019s shipbuilding plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI can tell you there\u2019s some critical components [from those reviews] \u2014 how you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2020\/02\/27\/americas-future-battle-network-is-key-to-multidomain-defense\/\" target=_blank>command and control the forces<\/a>, how you do logistics; there are some common themes in there in a joint war-fighting concept,\u201d he said. \u201cI can tell you if we had that concept right now, we could use that concept right now to influence the ships that we are building, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2020\/08\/04\/incoming-pentagon-official-slams-the-us-navys-fleet-plans-as-not-a-credible-document\/\" target=_blank>amount of ships that we need<\/a>, what we want the [combatant commands] to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo this war-fighting concept is filling a gap. 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