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Charles Flynn told Defense News in an interview ahead of the Association of the U.S. Army\u2019s annual conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Figuring out how joint targeting for fires will work across all branches \u2014 especially as new long-range fires are expected to come online as early as fiscal 2023 \u2014 will benefit the armed services as they continue to refine war-fighting concepts, Flynn said. Those concepts include the Army\u2019s Multidomain Operations, the Navy\u2019s Distributed Maritime Operations, the Air Force\u2019s Agile Combat Employment and the Marine Corps\u2019 Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Modifying Defender Pacific will \u201ccreate opportunities to pull together the future operating concepts of all the services in the region,\u201d Flynn said. \u201cThis region is &#8230; a war-fighting laboratory for us to learn, discover, grow, succeed and create a number of new opportunities for the joint force by implementing some new approaches.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pacific Pathways \u2014 which focuses on fostering relationship-building efforts between the U.S. Army and regional nations \u2014 was considered separate from Defender Pacific, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2020\/02\/25\/army-wants-364-million-to-put-on-defender-pacific-in-fy21\/\" target=\"_blank\">which was meant to be a larger exercise in 2020 and 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But both years Defender Pacific\u2019s original division-sized exercise was scaled back due to the coronavirus pandemic, Flynn said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2021\/03\/15\/massive-army-led-nato-exercise-defender-europe-kicks-off\/\" target=\"_blank\">Defender Europe<\/a>, which was supposed to have its inaugural launch in 2020 as well, was also scaled back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defender Pacific is becoming Operation Pathways because \u201cwe\u2019re trying to draw a distinction that Defender is in Europe and Pathways is in the Pacific,\u201d Flynn said, arguing the word \u201cdefender\u201d conjures up former European exercises like Reforger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to use the Pathways label out here because what we\u2019re trying to do is absolutely that: create pathways and openings between us, our allies and partners in the region,\u201d Flynn said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flynn\u2019s experience with Pacific Pathways began in 2014, during the inaugural exercise, when he was commander of the 25th Infantry Division. When Pacific Pathways first began, he said, it usually consisted of three small exercises, tied together for about three or four months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pathways in 2021 was extended to roughly five months and combined major exercises in Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, Japan and the Philippines as well as other exercises in a series of smaller countries, Flynn said. While the plan was to have roughly 20,000 soldiers in theater, the pandemic caused the Army to scale down to about 8,000 to 10,000, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service also held a series of experiments called Forager, which was planned with Army Futures Command and brought into the Pathways exercise. Forager featured more than 100 experiments, primarily executed from the second island chain into the first island chain as well as into Asia, Flynn said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first island chain runs parallel to the mainland of the Asian continent, starting in the Kuril Islands, through the Japanese Archipelago; includes Taiwan and the northwestern portion of the Philippines; and finishes in Borneo. 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