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New Approaches to Air-Land Integration

We need to focus on the reality of what it looks like at the small team, combat team level, with regard to
multi-domain integration with joint effects from JSF or from the Air Destroyer or from overhead surveillance
systems.

I think the reality is that as we move beyond this decade, those type of joint effects need to empower the
small team to achieve tactical success as the array of tactical successes transcend into an operational impact.

FIGURE 3 SLIDE FROM BG CHRIS MILLS PRESENTATION TO THE WILLIAMS FOUNDATION SEMINAR ON THE FUTURE OF AIR-LAND INTEGRATION.

So a number of what would be seen as operational effects I think in the fullness of time will transcend all the
way down to the small team, combat team level.

Hence, when a combat team commander who is about to attack a city block can potentially compartmentalize
all the electronic emissions going out from that block to know exactly where the threat is.

Then he can look at a whole range of joint fires both lethal and non-lethal to support them in achieving their
objectives.

Question: What you talking about is shaping the right kind of joint force package designed to achieve a
particular mission set in a timely manner?

Answer: The overall challenge is to generate more force, more rapidly, and more effectively when called to
do so. That is the joint mission; it is not just about the Army.

Question: In some ways, what you are describing is taking the mental furniture of the Special Forces and
applying more broadly to the Army?

Answer: That is a fair way to put it. The Special Forces are generally able to channel a whole range of joint
effects for their particular tactical tasks.

They might have strategic effects but the reality is we need to take as you said that mental framework and
apply that to what we call the joint land force.

All of those services that are collectively working to fight with Army to engage in the land battle are referred
to within the ADF context as the joint land force. That joint land force is by nature purple.

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