Suggested Themes and Topics

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Large-Scale Combat Operations/Multi-Domain Operations

• Division as a formation


• Air and antimissile defense


• Deep operations


• Information advantage/military deception


• Field Manual 3-0—competition continuum
  (competition, crisis, conflict)


• Multi-domain task force


• Recon and security/cavalry operations


• Protection and security (air defense artillery, engineer chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, cavalry)




 

Joint Operations

• Air/sea/land integration


• Joint/long-range precision fires


• Air and antimissile defense


• Joint forcible entry




 

Europe/Central Command/Indo-Pacific Command

• Contiguous and noncontiguous operations


• New operational environment: adversaries operating in their “near abroad” (close proximity to own borders)


• Peer and near-peer adversaries contesting U.S. joint force in all domains




 

Other Topics

• What must be done to adjust junior leader development to the modern operational environment?


• What logistical challenges does the U.S. military foresee due to infrastructure limitations in potential foreign areas of operation, and how can it mitigate them?


• Defending against biological warfare­—examination of the war waged by other than conventional military weapons


• Military role within interagency responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and other natural or humanitarian disasters


• What is the role for the Army/Reserve components in homeland security operations? What must the Army be prepared to do in support of internal security? Along our borders?


• Role of security force assistance brigades (SFAB) in the gray-zone competition phase drawn from experience of an SFAB in Africa or Europe




 

Soldiers of the 4046th Quartermaster Truck Company inspect and remove pieces from a grounded fighter plane found within a bombed-out plant in 1945 in Oschersleben, Germany. (Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress)

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March-April-2021