The U.S. Army is taking a major leap forward on two future warfighting fronts as it more closely examines how it will operate in the joint environment as well as in conflicts in the next decade. Teaming with the U.S. Joint Forces Command, the service recently conducted a war game that explored future concepts in which the U.S. military must react to aggression from a competent military adversary. The command and the Army identified several challenges that must be addressed, including denied physical access and well-networked adversaries, and are now developing recommendations that will be sent up the chain of command. War games have been vital to testing new concepts of operations. Lessons learned in Iraq demonstrate that the insights they provide accurately portray some of the elements of military missions. For example, past events indicated that speed and knowledge to support situational awareness are critically important to success. Until recently, however, war games were service specific, and only experiments and exercises took place in a joint environment.
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