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Trends in Current Military Conflicts Operational Environments

International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION

Current and future military confrontations require adaptive forces, moving rapidly from specific, lethal and high-intensity combat operations to stabilization and reconstruction operations or, conversely, from stability operations to kinetic ones. In fact, many times, military actions will take place simultaneously, at several levels of intensity and along the spectrum of the conflict. Thus, this article presents aspects that show that the current operational environment is the space of “military competition”, which will be marked by confrontations in a gray area, between “war and peace”, and in this area the military forces must have the necessary capabilities to carry out several and various types of missions.

Defense Primer: Department of Defense Pre-Positioned Materiel

Congressional Research Service, 2021

This CRS In Focus describes Department of Defense (DOD) Pre-Positioned War Reserve Materiel, or PWRM. This report is intended to be a primer for those who are interested in the fundamental statutes, policies, and worldwide locations for PWRM, including Service-specific stock materiel and intended coverage areas, and considerations for Congress. *Updated November 26, 2021. w/Lt. Col. Maureen Trujillo, U.S. Air Force Note: The original version of this report was produced by former CRS Analyst Tyler Hacker. It has been revised to reflect current policy, practice, and law.

The Armed Forces in Future Conflicts

In the imaginable future plausible conflicts are unlikely to occur in prolonged ground campaigns, with major inconclusive battles and lengthy periods of immobility and slow destruction, on large, well-defined fronts. Although battles and periods of attrition have occurred in the war between Iran and Iraq (countries that have been able to sustain them for a long time - a model of war whose repetition is not impossible but unlikely), in the Gulf conflicts - 1991 was an intervention with limited objectives, without total defeat, the Balkans - 1999 and Afghanistan - 2001/2002, (which took place under a now more credible model, that of asymmetric intervention), action on land It was characterized by rapid penetration and / or flanking or even manoeuvring in limited zones rather than battle fronts, after the enemy ground force's operational capacity was reduced by air strikes, missiles and special operations. There is at all any similarly with the large units of heavy (armoured), heavy artillery and conventional infantry very influential in the most relevant conventional land theatres in the 20th century (Europe, North Africa, First and Second World Wars). The collapse of the Iraqi Army in 1991, the effective survival of these large units, with their supportive all-round paraphernalia, is compromised by the lethal accuracy and efficiency of modern weapons - aviation (airplanes and helicopters) and cruise missiles. Although, still present in the great powers and in some countries with classic regional concerns and cares (Korea, Iraq itself, Israel and a few others), in general the large heavy units are no longer the "flagship" of the Modern armies. Countries, which are at least relevant in their geopolitical region, should have these tanks, although in smaller relative dimensions than in the past, as restricted or occasional situations may arise where their shock power is convenient. The trend is that the importance of short-term, ready-to-deploy ground forces (repeating, strategic and operational-tactical deployment), ready for the modern-style “blitzkrieg” with heavy use of helicopters and special operations is growing in importance (destruction / sabotage, seizure, recognition and attainment of "intelligence", hostage or non-combatant rescue and counterterrorism), well endowed with weapons, communications, sensors and other technologically advanced equipment.

Elevating the Shield of Blows: Theater Missile Defense for the Twenty- First Century

1993

: This monograph examines whether the operational air defense force for theater ballistic missile defense will be capable of conducting operations on future battlefields. To explore relevant issues in this area, historical examples from World War 1, World War 11, and Operation Desert Storm are cited as lessons learned. An examination of the Operational Air Defense Battlefield Operating Systems as specified in TRADOC Pamphlet 11-9 serves as a baseline for comparison between currently fielded air defense organizations and materiel against their ability to accomplish the mission assigned them. The study determines that American maneuver forces are vulnerable to engagement from ballistic missiles. Current theater air defense systems and organizations are severely limited in their ability to engage ballistic missiles at their maximum effective ranges without endangering the lives of American soldiers and our allies. Organization and materiel solutions to the problem are required. The stu...