JOINT CONCEPT DOCUMENT ADDRESSES EMERGING AREA-DENIAL THREATS

摘要

The DOD's recently released Joint Operational Access Concept (JOAC) Document, prepared by the Joint Staff and introduced by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, describes how future joint forces will ensure operational access to conflict areas in the face of new and emerging anti-access and area-denial (A2AD) security challenges. The leading trend identified in the JOAC is "the dramatic improvement and proliferation of weapons and other technologies capable of denying access to or freedom of action within an operational area, which come not only from advanced technologies, but also from the innovative use of basic, even crude, capabilities."