‘It Failed Miserably’: After Wargaming Loss, Joint Chiefs Are Overhauling How the US Military Will Fight
By: Tara Copp - Defense One News - 07-27-21
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https://www.defenseone.com/policy/20...-fight/184050/
In a fake battle for Taiwan, U.S. forces lost network access almost immediately. Hyten has issued four directives to help change that.
A brutal loss in a wargaming exercise last October convinced the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. John Hyten to scrap the joint warfighting concept that had guided U.S. military operations for decades.
“Without overstating the issue, it failed miserably. An aggressive red team that had been studying the United States for the last 20 years just ran rings around us. They knew exactly what we're going to do before we did it,” Hyten told an audience Monday at the launch of the Emerging Technologies Institute, an effort by the National Defense Industrial Association industry group to speed military modernization.
The Pentagon would not provide the name of the wargame, which was classified, but a defense official said one of the scenarios revolved around a battle for Taiwan. One key lesson: gathering ships, aircraft, and other forces to concentrate and reinforce each other’s combat power also made them sitting ducks.
“We always aggregate to fight, and aggregate to survive. But in today’s world, with hypersonic missiles, with significant long-range fires coming at us from all domains, if you're aggregated and everybody knows where you are, you're vulnerable,” Hyten said.
Even more critically, the blue team lost access to its networks almost immediately.
“We basically attempted an information-dominance structure, where information was ubiquitous to our forces. Just like it was in the first Gulf War, just like it has been for the last 20 years, just like everybody in the world, including China and Russia, have watched us do for the last 30 years,” Hyten said. “Well, what happens if right from the beginning that information is not available? And that’s the big problem that we faced.”
In response, the Joint Chiefs have since October been shifting the U.S. military to a new concept of warfighting operations they call “Expanded Maneuver.” Hyten wants the U.S. military to be ready to fight under the new operating concept by 2030, using many of today’s weapons, aircraft, and ships.
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Personal note: Invasion will be tough on the locals - it always is - in every conflict or war.
Today's big guns and bombs will no doubt be considered and the loss of civvies is inevitable.
No matter who we fight - on whatever land mass - its the civvies that really get the worst of it.
There's no such thing as a clean war! The current landlords of those lands have to realize and
express this to their people that there is a price to pay for freedom.
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War's degrade the purpose for which they were started - its the People who pay the price for
their ruler's decision's - supposedly in their behalf. Once it starts the end could be quick or
suffered over several years. It's like a world gone mad and it happens day & night for very
long periods in the beginning. You have two choice's in the beginning - give up without a
fight (of which could still result in loss of civvies by the captor's). It's a no win scenario for
the civvies - once it starts they will never forget or forgive those who brought this situation
to their lands. And it will go on for generations (always asking - Who Do I Trust?).
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Boats