The newly named “Penetration Division” concept looks to fill gaps that arose over the past two decades of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism wars that focused instead on the brigade as the center of Army force deployment.Īnd Richardson shared at least 17 “critical gaps” in the current division design.Īerial drone image of Bradley Fighting Vehicle crews from the 1st Armor Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, conducting Table XII gunnery at Fort Stewart, Ga. Richardson laid out the work that 1st Cavalry Division has been doing at Fort Hood, Texas, to modernize the Army’s division at the 2022 Maneuver Warfighter Conference at Fort Benning, Georgia, in February.

The Corps’ primary mission was to coordinate with Polish and German forces, as they’d do in a joint fight.Ĭavalry soldiers will start a pilot program this year to conclude in 2024 that could be the template for the future of Army division scouting. In early March, as the war in Ukraine continued to ramp up, 300 V Corps soldiers deployed as the main headquarters to both Germany and Poland for command and control of U.S. After limited multi-domain exercises last year, V Corps got a sample of the Great Power Competition that drove its re-establishment. The re-established V Corps in Europe didn’t get time to rest after reforming less than two years ago. Frankly, he said, soldiers are comfortable working in large centers, being able to talk directly with their counterparts and support staff.

An experiment this summer will push out more nodes with the ultimate goal of running three to five nodes across the theater.Īs dry as it might sound to trigger-pullers, the real work for Ellis and others will be getting the processes down. But they’ll still be in small, spread-out teams, not in 600-soldier command posts. (Army)įuture iterations of the Corp-level disparate C2 might be much larger, he said. The earth shakes as an M109A6 Paladin fires a gas propelled 155mm Howitzer round through the enormous canon, the biggest of Battle Kings arsenal as 1-9 Field Artillery, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, conducts their gun calibration at Destiny Range in Mosul, Iraq, April 2010.

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