The D Brief: US to end combat role in Iraq; Warfighting concept ‘failed miserably’; Austin vows to help Taiwan; VA to require staff vaccinations; And a bit more...
By Bradley Peniston and Jennifer Hlad
July 27, 2021 10:58 AM ET
Pentagon revising its joint warfighting concept. A brutal loss in a wargaming exercise last October convinced the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. John Hyten to scrap the joint warfighting concept that had guided U.S. military operations for decades, Defense One’s Tara Copp reports.
“Without overstating the issue, it failed miserably,” Hyten told an audience Monday at a National Defense Industrial Association event. “An aggressive red team that had been studying the United States for the last 20 years just ran rings around us. They knew exactly what we're going to do before we did it.”
Among the game’s lessons: first, the U.S. doctrine of massing forces is a recipe for 21st-century defeat; second, the networks that define modern American warfare disappeared almost instantly once combat began.
In response, the Joint Chiefs have since October been shifting the U.S. military to a new concept of warfighting operations they call “Expanded Maneuver.” Hyten wants the U.S. military to be ready to fight under the new operating concept by 2030, using many of today’s weapons, aircraft, and ships.
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2021/07/the-d-brief-july-27-2021/184065/
