The Operational Environment 2024-2034: Large-Scale Combat Operations
July 31, 2024, TRADOC G2
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The TRADOC G2 is responsible for defining, describing, and delivering the Operational Environment (OE) to the Army. Since the last assessment in 2021, global conditions have evolved significantly, necessitating a reassessment of the OE. The result is The Operational Environment 2024-2034: Large-Scale Combat Operations (LSCO), which focuses on the conditions and implications of modern LSCO that the U.S. Army will have to face in the next 10 years. The objective is to inform the Army about aspects of LSCO and their impact on operations, thereby supporting Army Senior Leaders’ decision making and the U.S. Army’s planning and execution of training so the Army can successfully execute its contributions to national security objectives.
To achieve victory in the Operational Environment of the 21st century, the U.S. Army must know these enemies like it knew the Soviets in the 20th century.
China, the pacing threat, is building defense systems to attain its global ambitions. It has the largest military in the world by personnel and the ability to execute a whole-of-nation approach to conflict that can quickly galvanize its industrial base. China’s modernization process has seen rapid technological transformation toward its vision of “informationized” and “intelligentized” warfare. It is also advancing an ambitious professional military education system with the aim of building a strong NCO corps.
Meanwhile, Russia, the acute threat, has been mired in an invasion of Ukraine since 2022. While not seeing the success it had hoped for initially, Russia is gaining combat experience in large-scale combat operations and proving that simply outlasting an enemy is a potentially valid military option. The war in Ukraine has shown that the next fight will prominently feature information warfare and focus on multidomain effects. Fires will be the center of gravity, making protection a priority and maneuver difficult.
The information contained herein should be transmitted to, and understood by, U.S. Army Soldiers of every rank and at every echelon. Our Soldiers—our people—are our greatest strength and we must do everything we can to strengthen the profession of warfighting. Competence as an Army professional starts with understanding the threat, but it does not end there. Every Leader has the obligation of being a continuous and self-reflective learner outside of traditional professional military education and training.
The Operational Environment 2024-2034: Large-Scale Combat Operations (TRADOC G2):https://lnkd.in/ewPUS7EM
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