Army Builds Ability to ‘Blind, See and Kill’ Adversaries
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Wed, 01/08/2025 - 08:33
The U.S. military should expand its thinking when it comes to anti-access/area-denial capabilities, a panel of experts said during a recent Association of the U.S. Army Hot Topic on fires.
Anti-access/area-denial, or A2/AD, refers to “actions or capabilities” that prevent adversarial forces from entering an operational theater, or that restrict their freedom of movement within a theater.
“For a long time, we thought about A2/AD as something adversaries did to us, rather than something we could do to our adversaries,” said Wes Rumbaugh, a fellow in the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in calling for an expansion of the concept in U.S. planning.
Brig. Gen. Bill Parker, director of Army Futures Command’s Air and Missile Defense Cross-Functional Team, said that when the U.S. and its allies look to “impose A2/AD on an adversary,” they must “throw up a bubble” to protect against adversarial action and enable friendly maneuver at the tactical level.
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