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Designing the Integrated Force: How to Define and Meet the Challenge?

deliver the superior combat effect than to enforced integration, particularly if such efforts reduce the force to
the lowest common denominator.

“And this effects prioritization. We want E-7 integrated with Air Warfare Destroyer and both able to
cooperate with JSF. Which elements need to be tightly integrated versus generating cooperative effects for
the ADF?

He argued for a pragmatic, flexible, and priority driven approach. “We need to generate thrusts forward in
terms of greater combat effect. Integration is not a stationary target and after-market integration efforts will
always be required to enhance collaborative and cooperative capabilities within the force. We need to have
the flexibility to deliver aftermarket-integrated effects as a core activity as well as designing in integration
from the outset where feasible. It depends on the priority for enhanced combat force performance.”

Brigadier General David Wainwright, Director General of Land Warfare in the Australian Army, provided
the Army approach. In his presentation and discussions at the Seminar, he highlighted the thinking of head of
Army with regard to Army modernization with a core vector on the integrated force.

He quoted Lt General Angus Campbell’s comments made last year to the Lowry Institute for International
Policy. “The Army and more broadly the ADF needs to be able to influence and shape effects from and
across multiple domains, as other protagonists will seek to do against us. This is why mastering ‘joint
operations’ is even more important and much harder than ever before. We need to generate, coordinate and
anticipate multiple cross-domain actions and reactions. No one service or domain can or will have a monopoly
on success.”

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