PPT Slide
- Sensor systems that detect, locate, track, and target vehicles and groups of people moving within a large area of the earth's surface provide unprecedented capabilities.
- Strike assets can be used to initially disrupt, demoralize and channel enemy forces after they have been made vulnerable to air attack through a combination of maneuver and strike operations
- These capabilities make many assumptions regarding the reliability of information on the location of mobile enemy forces that have long dominated force structure requirements and concepts of operation for fighting fielded land forces in land warfare obsolete.
- This does not mean that in the future U.S. Forces will always know everything all the time, but it does suggest that the integration of maneuver and strike capabilities through networking is the path to decisively exploit what U.S. Forces will know.
What do events in Afghanistan tell us?