1st Cavalry Division will serve as pilot for army's return to division-level structure

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The US Army is re-organising its manoeuvre units to focus on the division level as its main deploy-able asset, and will trial a new structure for the 1st Cavalry Division as a pilot effort, with a full operational capability for that unit scheduled for mid- to late-2023, army officials have told Janes. This effort is part of the army's wider planning for multi-domain operations (MDO): its term for large-scale conflict across air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace. For about a century the service was organised around divisions as the main deployable asset, but around 2004 began structuring around purpose-built brigades instead - partly to meet significant deployment requirements to Iraq and Afghanistan and partly to align for counter-insurgency roles (which often focused on wide-area security rather than manoeuvres and engagements).