US Army grapples with future operating concepts
As the threat from near-peer adversaries looms once again over Western nations, the US is having to re-learn operating concepts that have laid dormant for over a decade.
Reviving concepts for Short Range Air Defence (SHORAD) and establishing how new technologies and doctrines should be incorporated into brigades has been at the centre of the US Army’s Joint Warfighting Assessment (JWA).
The exercise, led by the Joint Modernization Command (JMC) at the Hohenfels training centre in Germany, has offered an opportunity for the army to test-drive future and existing concepts and capabilities and to re-baseline future requirements across a range
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