Army releases operating concept document

[unhappycamper]

Army releases operating concept document
By Kate Brannen - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Aug 19, 2010 18:46:41 EDT

The Army on Thursday published the Army Operating Concept, which describes how the service will fight in 2016 to 2028. The 65-page paper describes combined arms maneuver and security operations as the service’s core contributions to the joint force.

“Army forces capable of combined arms maneuver and wide area security operations are an essential component of the joint force’s ability to achieve or facilitate the achievement of strategic and policy goals,” says Gen. Martin Dempsey in the document’s foreword. Dempsey is the commander of Army Training and Doctrine Command.

The concept is not considered Army doctrine, which implies more permanence within Army thinking. Instead, the concept paper is more experimental and is meant to influence future concept writing, Army force structure decisions and capabilities development.

The concept development work was led by Brig. Gen. H.R. McMaster, who was asked by Gen. David Petraeus to join him in Afghanistan. Previously, he served as director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center’s Concepts Development and Experimentation Directorate, which is part of TRADOC.

McMaster’s TRADOC effort expands on the ideas introduced in the Army’s Capstone Concept, published in December.



unhappycamper comment: The full PDF is here.

It appears that we are on the verge of 'The Forever War'.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "We have always been at war with concept papers." - Big Bro