Futures Seminar: The United States Army in 2030 and Beyond - Compendium of U.S. Army War College Papers, Volume 3 - Intelligence Explosion, Battle Group, Domain Challenges, Education, and Army Reserve

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. These papers represent different recommendations by six different Army War College students. Additive to the experience of the AAN Seminar students, Futures Seminar students and faculty further contribute to the Army’s understanding of the future force by substantively participating in force development experimentation, wargames and symposia. This participation is made possible by an excellent partnership with the Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC) – primarily through the Chief of Staff of the Army’s year-long study program – Unified Quest. This year, Futures Seminar students filled leadership roles during the deep future wargame, serving as either combined/joint task force commanders or as chiefs of staff. The Futures Seminar students are full participants in the professional dialogue about the future force and undoubtedly provide value to the process.

1. The Attributes of the Future Force * 2. Intelligence Explosion and the Future Force * 3. The Big Eights Potential for Battle Group 2030 * 4. The Army in 2030 and Beyond – Insights on Domain Challenges * 5. Educating the Army – The Genesis of Innovation * 6. The Army Reserve of 2030

The proliferation of technology into everything will radically change the future military and operational environment. In 2035-2050 the battlespace will be elongated and deepened – and hyper-connected. Engagements will occur at home station military bases through ports of debarkation to tactical assembly areas all the way to the adversary’s motor pool. From space to the ocean floor; from military to non- military; from governmental to non-governmental; from state to non- state; from physical to virtual. The operational area will be wherever effects are generated – and the array of stimuli that will generate effects is staggering. The interconnected and global nature of everything will produce physical and virtual effects that have tremendous range, saturation and immediacy – along with daunting complexity and stealth.

More than ever before, the tactical fight will be influenced less by the tactical fighter and more by actors or organizations either unknown to the warfighters, or beyond their ability to affect. A hacked and corrupted computer server in the Defense Logistics Agency will have a disproportionally greater impact on a brigade’s combat readiness than an enemy’s attack on a main supply route.