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The Maritime Services, the Allies and Shaping the Kill Web

The Maritime Services, the Allies

and Shaping the Kill Web

A WORK IN PROGRESS F OR TH E AI R - ENABLED MARITIME FOR CE

Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 3

Shaping a Kill Web: Conceptual Issues ................................................................................................. 5
Force Design for High Intensity Operations: Payload-Utility Capabilities and the Kill Web ............................ 5
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................................... 5
The Mobilization/Modernization Dynamic ......................................................................................................................... 7
The XXIst Century Man-Machine Revolution: A New Distributed Information Capability and a Potential Spiral
Development Design Process: ............................................................................................................................................. 10
The Combat Learning Dynamic .......................................................................................................................................... 10
Tron Warfare and the Z Axis ............................................................................................................................................. 12
The Payload-Utility Dynamic And the Kill Web: Leaving the Legacy Kill Chain in the Rear View Mirror .......... 15
Rethinking the OODA Loop for the Offensive-Defensive Enterprise ............................................................. 18
Leveraging the OODA Loop ............................................................................................................................................... 19
Strategic Dominance ............................................................................................................................................................ 20
The OODA Loop As A Measuring Stick ............................................................................................................................ 21
The Need for an Attack and Defense Enterprise ........................................................................................................... 26
Re-Shaping the Technological Advantage ....................................................................................................................... 28
Conclusion: Shaping the Kill Web ...................................................................................................................................... 28
The Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Warfare Systems Looks at the Way Ahead: Rear Admiral Manazir
on Shaping Kill Webs ..................................................................................................................................... 29
The Synergy Built Into the Queen Elizabeth Class Carriers and the F-35B .................................................... 34
The Way Ahead for the RAAF in the Integrated Defense Force: The Perspective of Air Marshal Leo Davies 37
The Network as a Weapon System: The Perspective of Rear Admiral Mayer, Commander Australian Fleet 40
The Norwegian Navy and Shaping Air-Sea Integration for Norwegian Defense .......................................... 43

The USMC Shapes Its Way Ahead with Regard to Distributed Lethality Delivered From the Sea ....... 46
Shaping the Way Ahead for the Combat Insertion Force: The 15 MEU Goes to Sea with the USS America 46
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The 15 MEU Readies for Deployment with the USS America ARG .............................................................. 50
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From Red Flag to the Real World: Marine Corps F-35Bs Integrated with USAF Strategic Bombers in Deterrent
Deployment ................................................................................................................................................... 53
Building out the kill web: training, development and the challenge of integration ............................ 57
NAWDC and Shaping a 21 Century Combat Force: The Perspective of Admiral “HYFI” Harris .................. 57
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An Introduction to NAWDC: Captain Steinbaugh Provides an Overview ...................................................... 66
The Way Ahead for NAWDC: Naval Aviation and Working the Kill Web ..................................................... 68
Preparing for the High End Fight ................................................................................................................... 70
Air Wing Fallon: The Challenges Facing Pre-deployment Training for the Carrier Air Wing ......................... 73
Expanding the Reach of the Battlefleet: The Evolving Role of the Advanced Hawkeye ............................... 76
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