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Contemporary Military

Forum #3:

Ready and Lethal9 October 2018

Lieutenant General Laura J. Richardson

Deputy Commanding General

U.S. Army Forces Command

Version 5 As of 5 Oct 18


CMF Panel #3, Tuesday 9 OCT 18, 1000-1200

Ready and Lethal

Panel Chair: LTG Laura J. Richardson

Deputy Commanding General United States Army Forces Command

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Dr. Catherine Dale

Director, RAND Ctr for

Russia and Eurasia

LTG Paul Funk, II

CG, III Corps

MG James Mingus

CG, 82nd ABN DIV

MG Courtney Carr

Adjutant General

Indiana National Guard

Mr. Joseph L’Etoile

Close Combat Lethality

Task Force


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“Prioritize preparedness for war; Build a more lethal joint force”

- Secretary of Defense Mattis -2018 NDS

Ready Lethal

Global Dynamic

Overmatch

Total Force Competency

Operational Mastery

Tactical Lethality

Strategic

Impact

Expeditionary Capacity

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Ready and Lethal - FORSCOM


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Tactical Lethality - Close Combat Lethality Task Force

Manpower Policy:• Increase stability & longevity of Leaders; optimize investment thru retention

oriented objectives

• Adopt Close Combat-specific policies to maximize investments and outcomes

• Increase direct investment in training and education of Leaders

• Use advances in human performance and cognition to better recruit and retain

Training: “25 bloodless battles before battle”• Invest in new ways (live, virtual & immersive) to achieve repetition in training

• Maximize training efficiency and effectiveness

Warfighter Equipment & Weapons Systems:• Invest in more lethal and discriminating individual weapons• Lighten the infantryman’s load (including protective equipment)• Invest in assured communications• Field non-line- of-sight sensors capable of differentiating friend or foe

Science & Technology/Research & Development: • Make appropriate investments where the science lags the need• Develop innovation mechanisms

Human Performance:• Use advances in human performance and cognition to train, educate and

improve lethality and resiliency of Close Combat formations• Seeks to identify “best of breed” programs – DoD, S&T, SOCOM, Academia &

Industry

SecDef

Direct Tasking Memo

Dated 16 March 2018

End State

“Overmatch at the

Tactical Edge”

Close combat

formations that are:

- More Lethal

- More Resilient

- More Discriminating

- More Capable of

distributed, complex,

fluid operations

- Operating at

Sustainable Tempo

- Fiscally Sustainable

- Enduring – Changes

are institutionalized

and implemented

“I am committed to improving the combat preparedness, lethality, survivability, and resiliency of our Nation’s

ground close-combat formations. These formations have historically accounted for almost 90 percent of our

casualties and yet our personnel policies, advances in training methods, and equipment have not kept pace

with changes in available technology, human factors science, and talent management best practices.” –Secretary James Mattis

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Expeditionary Capacity – Lethal and Sustainable Readiness

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BCT15-28 / ~10

BN17 / ~10

CO15 / 3

PLT/SQD/TM/Crew28 / 6

Individual16 / 4

Training at echelon requires a strong foundation from which to build

Readiness

and

Training

Echelon

Full-time Unit Support

and Training Days

*AUP

Example

Building Readiness at Scale

54 days

IBCT

AY: 39

PY 4: 39-54

PY 3: 48.5

PY 2: 39

PY 1: 39

Funded SRM Days

A/S BCT

AY: 51

PY 3: 60/54

PY 2: 48.5

PY 1: 39

Slant: Training Days / Leader Days

39 days

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IBCT

Readiness and Lethality

Pyramid


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Operational Mastery

“Operational Mastery enables Expeditionary Decisive Landpower”

Operational Mastery: “Back to Basics”

• Technological Dependencies

• Fundamental Skills

• Repetition Develops Expertise

• Information Integration Management

“Enable the maneuver commander to strike

at the enemy's most vulnerable point

and parry any response”


Operational Mastery

Tactical Lethality

Strategic

Agility


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Strategic Impact

“Proactively Shape the Strategic Environment”NDS 2018

Strategic Implications

• Our Adversaries

• Our Allies and partners

• Ourselves


Operational Mastery

Tactical Lethality

Strategic

Impact


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Forum #3:

Ready and Lethal9 October 2018

Lieutenant General Laura J. Richardson

Deputy Commanding General

U.S. Army Forces Command

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2018 National Defense StrategySharpening the American Military’s Competitive Edge

• Expand the Competitive Space: Build a more lethal joint force, Strengthen alliances and

attract new partners, and Reform DOD for greater performance and affordability

• Approach: Strategically predictable, but operationally unpredictable; Integrate with

interagency, and; Counter coercion and subversion.

• Dynamic Force Employment / Dynamic Presence: New approach

• Increased strategic flexibility and freedom of action

• Great power competition—not terrorism—is now the primary focus of U.S. national security

“This strategy expands our competitive space, prioritizes preparedness for war, provides clear direction for significant

change at the speed of relevance, and builds a more lethal force to compete strategically.” James N. Mattis, Secretary of Defense, Johns Hopkins’ Paul H. Nitze School Of Advanced International Studies, 19 January 2018



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The Army

Vision

The Army

Campaign Plan

The Army Plan:

Support of

2018 National

Defense Strategy

The Army

Strategy

The Army of 2028 will deploy, fight, and

win decisively against any adversary in

a joint, multi-domain, high-intensity

conflict, while simultaneously deterring

others and maintaining the ability to

conduct irregular warfare.

Army Vision

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Modern weapons and systems +

combined arms formations + modern

warfighting doctrine + exceptional

Leaders and Soldiers

= Unmatched Lethality

Objectives: Man, Organize, Train, Equip, Lead


ARFORGEN vs Sustainable Readiness

“Flattening the Curve”

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READY NOW


“ If it does not build readiness…Don’t do it.” - CSA, 39, multiple times…

Prioritize Individual Soldier Readiness First 10/20 is the standard. Period.

Boost EDRE, Improve MFGI = strategic flexibility + Freedom of Action

Get equipment in the right places. Combined Arms Maneuver against world class

OPFOR in DATE

“Time available is most precious and critical resource” - 22nd FC CDR, multiple times…


Army Initiatives for Admin Reduction

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FORSCOM FY 18 Commander’s Training Guidance

➢ Assist unit commanders by enforcing current policies and

granting fewer exceptions to tasking policies (for

example, minimize taskings inside the six week lock-in)

➢ Prioritize activities to unburden company commanders

➢ Find innovative ways to reduce admin requirements to

allow leaders more time with their units, reduce number of

meetings they must attend

➢ Implement administrative business rules to allow CDRs to

focus on readiness building (for example, no email

messaging from staffs to Company level CDRs)

➢ Senior level commanders required to come back to

CG, FORSCOM and lay out ways to unburden

company commanders, have a dialogue about

training distractors.

➢ Starts with 2 star commanders

Prioritize preparedness for war;

Build a more lethal joint force

Secretary of Defense Mattis -2018 NDS


The World We Live In

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Ready Now

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U.S: 11 KIA (includes two 3rd FSB, 3ID Soldiers), 6 WIA, 8 POW.

Leaders and Soldiers unclear on ROE. Lacked clear understanding of enemy situation. Command

relationship not clear. Key leaders absent from ROE briefings. Lacked capability to effectively

engage the enemy. Weapons malfunctioned due to lack of proper maintenance.

507th

Maintenance Company

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• Build relationships/earn trust

• Dialogue + Exchange of Ideas = Success Briefing + PowerPoint = Failure

• Know the terrain: political appointees versus career DoD

• Maintain your professional bearing

• BEST MILITARY ADVICE!

Civil-Military Relations

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“SEE”

Training

• Soldiers spend up to 60% of dwell time away

from home:

➢ Home Station Training

➢ CTC Rotation Support (OC/T & OPFOR;

500-1000 per rotation)

➢ Cadet Summer Training (~3400 Soldiers)

➢ Test and Experimentation Support (~7K

in FY16 and ~9K FY17)

• Joint Exercise Support (32,000 Soldiers

annually; 9% of FORSCOM)

• Professional Military Education (~3,664

NCOs per month)

41,000

Soldiers

deployed

23,800

Soldiers on

prepare to deploy

orders“DO”

The Churn

Equipment

• Force Structure Changes (converted an

IBCT to ABCT, transferred 137 aircraft,

equipped SFAB)

• Divestiture of Equipment (~300K pieces in

FY16/17; ~145K pieces for FY18; average

9K per month)

• Daily Supply Operations (e.g. fielding of

new automation impacts 168 units in

FY17)

• Daily Fleet Readiness (e.g. aviation phase

maintenance inspections; 525 in FY17)

Manning

• Managing Personnel Turbulence (3-5%

per month due to Separations, Expiration

of Term of Service, Permanent Change of

Station, and Retirements)

• Managing Non-Deployables (FC averages

10% per month ~20k, ~16k of those have

medical issues)

• Diverted military manpower supports

underfunded installations (gate guards,

range support, etc.) (~5,300 Soldiers daily)

What Others See vs What We Do

Each activity builds or sustains readiness, but requires predictable funding and time.

9 monthsAverage Dwell 12-15 months

Home Station Training Deploy2/1 CAV

FORSCOM

CTCDeploy

9 months

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Deploy : Dwell 1:1.5

Goal is 1:2

Not there yet!


“Mission command is the

exercise of authority and

direction by the

commander using mission

orders to enable

disciplined initiative within the commander’s

intent to empower

subordinates in the

conduct of unified land

operations.” – FM 3-0,

Operations, Oct. 2017- FM 3-0, Operations, Oct. 2017

Mission Command


A SALUTE report has evolved to a

Powerpoint chart with photos.

What was once routine and the purview

of Troop/Battery/Company commanders,

is now a CONOP at battalion level or

higher.

Impediments to Mission Command


• Mission Essential Task (MET) Proficiency demonstrated through CPX and

FTX / STX; accounts for Key Supporting Collective Task proficiency of

subordinate units

• Individual and Crew Qualification conducted IAW appropriate doctrinal

reference

• Collective Live Fire Proficiency demonstrated through both FCX & maneuver

LFX IAW Army Unit Live Fire Gates

T-level Rating Definition: T-Level is an assessment of the unit’s ability to provide

the capabilities for which it was designed based upon a composite assessment of

three foundational aspects of training and is qualified by an assessment of

training days required to achieve T1 or ready to load (RLD) status if already T1.

Objective T-Level Assessment

RatingIndividual and Crew

Qualification

Mission Essential Task

(MET) Proficiency

Collective Live Fire

Proficiency

Continuous Training Days to

Achieve T1

1 ≥ 90% ≥ T- in all METs Unit Live Fire conducted at

appropriate echelon

as determined by

Live Fire Gates

≤ 10 Days

2 80 – 89% ≥ T- in most METs (No U) ≤ 35

3 70 – 79% ≥ P in most METs (≤ 1xU) ≤ 90

4 < 70% ≤ P- in most METs Not Live Fire Proficient > 90


Objective Task Evaluation

Criteria

Commanders can subjectively upgrade / downgrade proficiency level for mission essential tasks

Plan and Prepare Execute Assess

Operational Environment

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Measure

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Critic

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Leader

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Me

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SQD &

PLT

CO &

BN

BDE &

ABOVE

Dynamic

(Single

Threat)

Dynamic &

Complex

(4+ OE

Variables &

Hybrid

Threat)

Dynamic &

Complex

(All OE

Variables &

Hybrid

Threat)

Nig

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Pro

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≥ 90%

GO

ALL

GO

≥ 90%

GO T

75 – 84%80 – 89%

GO

80 – 89%

GO

T-

Static

(Single

Threat)

Dynamic

(Single

Threat)

Dynamic &

Complex

(All OE

Variables &

Single

Threat)

65 – 74% 75 – 79%

NO

65 – 79%

GO P

Day

60 – 64% 60 – 74%51 – 64%

GO

NOT

ALL

GO

< 80%

GO

P-

Static

(Single

Threat)

Dynamic

Complex

(< All OE

Variables &

Single

Threat)

< 60% < 60%< 51%

GO U

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IOC: o/a 01OCT18

select Field Test units

FOC Phase I: Initial:

o/a 01OCT19

FOC Phase II: Full:

o/a 01 OCT20

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• Plan for RSOI

• No clear Battle Periods

• Action – Reaction – Counteraction

• Promotes opportunistic behavior and disciplined initiative – “Mission Command”

• Information, EW and Cyber are competitive

• OPFOR UAS and Rotary Wing

• BN/BCT Live Fire

Combat Training CentersCombined Arms Maneuver Training in DATE


Leader Development

• No one program… a way of life

• Take advantage of every

opportunity (QTB, BFC, TNG

MTGs, Gunnery, UCMJ…)

…“NO CASUAL

CONVERSATIONS”

• Manage & track high performers

…for the Army

• GET YOUR VERY BEST JOINT

QUALIFIED EARLIER THAN

LATER

… Ranger School, Tank and Bradley Commander’s Certification Courses, Master

Gunner Courses, Sniper School, Digital Master Gunner Course, JFO Course,

Mortar Leaders Course, Jump Master Course ….

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Associated Units

▪ Formal relationship for training and readiness

▪ More Combat Training Center rotations

▪ Increased training days

▪ Personnel exchanges

▪ Common patches

Pilot Implementation from Summer 2016 through 2019

Capitalize on inherit strength of multi-component organization…

increased U.S. Army Readiness

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Associated Units

IOC: Jun 16

Patch Ceremony: 16 Sep 16

IOC: Oct 16

Patch Ceremony: 03 Dec 16

IOC: Oct 16

Patch Ceremony: 15 Oct 16

IOC: Oct 16

Patch Ceremony: 16 Sep 16

IOC: Jun 16

Patch Ceremony: 13 Aug 16

IOC: Jun 16


IOC: Jun 16

IOC: Oct 16

Patching Ceremony: 17 Oct 16

IOC: Oct 16


IOC: Oct 16

Patch Ceremony: 22/23 Oct 16

IOC: Oct 16


IOC: Oct 16


IOC/Patch Ceremony complete


Operational Mastery

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LTG Funk back up slides

342

Tal Afar HawijahSecure Baghdad

BeltsClear to Al Qaim

SDF Op Pause

Liberate Raqqah

Clear to Dayr Az Zawr (DaZ) Clear Middle Euphrates River Valley (MERV)

Liberate

Raqqah

Clear to DaZ Clear MERV

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Plan

Execution

Syri

a

Plan

Execution

Campaign Acceleration

SEPJULFEB MAR APR MAY JUN AUGJAN20182017

SEP OCT NOV DEC

Hawijah

Tal Afar Cleared

Al QaimSecure Baghdad

Belts

Clear MERV

Iraq

Iraq Liberated Iraq Elections

Afrin

POC: MAJ Rickmeyer,

CIGAs of 4 Sep 2018 352


ISF Cross-border FiresBy, With, Through

ISF Security Ops

A3E Partner forces

Coalition Enablers

Defeat

Train and Equip

36POC: MAJ Rickmeyer,

CIGAs of 28 Aug 2018

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Unclassified FORSCOMSupport to Stabilization

Mosul 2017

Mosul 2018

Raqqah 2017

Raqqah 2018

Consolidate

Stability


CIGAs of 28 Aug 2018

Hope

Honor 37


Manbij

Complex Information Environment Future of the PMF

One Iraq

Campaign Friction and Competition

Deconfliction


CIGAs of 20 Aug 2018 38

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