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

developing capabilities, which provide for agility, flexibility and integration. And to do so, Army is relying on
joint capabilities, whether ISR, fires or C2. But it must also ensure that its ground maneuver elements have
sufficient organic combat power to operate on their own as well.

In one of the earlier interviews, this is how BG Mills put it.

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 access a whole range of joint effects
for their particular tactical tasks. As a result, allowing small teams to achieve large effects.

We need to take, as you said, that mental framework and apply that to what we call the joint land force.

Within the ADF context the joint land force refers to all of those services that are collectively working to fight
with Army to fight the land battle. By its nature that joint land force is by its nature, purple.
Importantly, not only do you have to package this small team appropriately, but also we have to ensure these
small teams are capable of being dynamically repackaged on the fly with joint effects. For example, if a combat
team now needs additional EW because of a change in threat or mission, the combat team will be able to
leverage the required additional EW support from the joint force in time frames far quicker than the past.
The reality is that as we move beyond this decade we need to be capable of pushing support further down from
division level and making it more readily available and more dynamically available to the small group level.
Empowering the small group with joint effects in seconds and minutes not hours and days.

The time responsiveness of an Air Tasking Order that’s 72 hours old is really not going to cut it.

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