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Land Capabilities Visit
Commander Peter Higgins
AS PART OF THE ACSC Land Capabilities week, the students of
ACSC21 spent two days on Salisbury Plain. The visit provided an
excellent insight into the capabilities of the British Army, with a focus on 3 Division. Although the Army were
unable to mount a live firepower demonstration this year for a variety of reasons, the visit was very successful and showcased the Army’s capabilities, doctrine and tactics.
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to the concepts of how C2 should be conducted in the complex, dynamic and unstable context of divisional warfighting in the Combined and Joint arena. This illustrated the challenges of maintaining a coherent recognised picture as well as the relationships between the strategic, operational and tactical levels.
The Close demonstration was most impressive, conducted at Copehill Down, the Army’s built up area training facility, in which the King’s Royal
Hussars Battle Group conducted a convincing demonstration of an assault in the urban environment. The visceral character and complexity of this mode of warfare was starkly apparent.
A wide range of the Army’s equipment to support the Deep fight was on
show, including Apache, Wildcat, ground based air defence (GBAD), Watchkeeper and the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) to mention just a few. This gave the visiting
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The Land power visit was split into
four discrete modules, introducing the Command and Control (C2), Deep, Close and Sustain areas of capability.
In C2, the concepts of cyber resistant, distributed C2 was introduced, with extensive presentations and introduction
pride and professionalism of the soldiers... ◆◆◆
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particular note was the