![]() ![]() 3 These strategic competitors intend to achieve their political aims by blurring the line between peace and conflict. The 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) identifies the “reemergence of long-term, strategic competition” with China and Russia as the primary challenge to U.S. This Spotlight seeks to assess the MDTFs’ unique value to the joint force. ![]() The two existing MDTFs-the first established in 2017 with an Indo-Pacific focus and a second stood up in 2021 in Europe-are the Army’s organizational centerpieces in employing the MDO concept. Army Pacific General Robert Brown said in 2019, “All formations will have to become multi-domain, or they’ll be irrelevant.” 2Ĭharting the path forward to achieve this multi-domain capability are the Army’s Multi-Domain Task Forces (MDTFs). The stakes for the Army are high as then-commander of U.S. Army has set out to modernize its entire enterprise for Multi-Domain Operations (MDO)-competing with, and if necessary, defeating, highly capable adversaries who can challenge the United States in the land, sea, air, space and cyberspace. Tectonic shifts in geopolitics, namely the rise of China and the resurgence of Russia, coupled with rapid technological advancement, could make the United States’ next war unprecedented in its speed, lethality and reach. The three decades of “strategic respite,” 1 absent a nation able to challenge the United States after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, are over. MDTFs are inherently joint not only do they augment joint force capabilities, but they rely on the successful modernization efforts of the Pentagon and the other services, most notably JADC2, to maximize their value to combatant commanders.Successful maneuver during competition forms the foundation for the MDTFs’ value in crisis or conflict by securing positions of advantage across all domains.MDTFs are a logical response to the era of strategic competition long-range precision effects allow MDTFs to counter hybrid threats from China and Russia, while long-range precision fires enhance joint force freedom of maneuver should deterrence fail.Spotlight Scopeĭescribes the structure, role and value of the Army’s MDTFs to joint force counter anti-access/area-denial capabilities across the spectrum of competition, crisis and conflict and identifies challenges and considerations moving forward. Army’s Multi-Domain Task Forces (MDTFs) represent the critical centerpiece in operationalizing the Army’s Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) concept, but their role and value in strategic competition is not fully understood by the joint force or Congress. ![]()
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