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    Force 2025 and Beyond: TRADOC commander shares insight

    FORT CARSON, CO, UNITED STATES

    02.09.2017

    Story by Spc. Anthony Bryant 

    14th Public Affairs Detachment

    Gen. David G. Perkins spoke to brigade command leadership about the current military environment and how the Army is adapting operational strategy in line with the protocols established in Force 2025 and Beyond due to the rapidly changing global security landscape that is volatile, unstable and increasingly threatening to U.S. interests.
    Force 2025 and Beyond is the comprehensive strategy to define the future operating environment to ensure the Army is prepared to accomplish future missions and identify key trends to predict that environment.
    One identified trend is the capacity of adversaries to emulate U.S. military capabilities, said Perkins. During the Cold War, the asymmetric advantage of U.S. forces was technical capability. However, that gap in technology is becoming less and less pronounced as U.S. military technologies are replicated by adversarial armies. What can be predicted going forward, is that if the U.S. acquires a new capability, it’s only a matter of time before somebody else gets it.
    “When I was growing up in the Army on the inter-German border as a lieutenant during the Cold War, we had all kinds of capabilities (the enemy) didn’t have,” said Perkins. “We had night vision goggles; they didn’t have them. We had thermal sights; they didn’t have them. We were differentiated from our enemy by the capabilities they didn’t have.”
    Another key trend Perkins discussed was the increasing rate of change across the spectrum, and the necessity to innovate to handle battlefields in flux. As the TRADOC commander, Perkins is designated the lead and responsible official for Force 2025 and Beyond.
    Perkins has sought to encourage initiative and innovation through doctrine.
    “I have to write doctrine that empowers initiative and innovation because the rate of change is going so fast,” said Perkins. “Command and control is no longer our war-fighting function; it’s mission command. The difference is instead of trying to control compliance with the command, what we focus on is empowering exploitation of initiative.”
    War is action, counteraction, said Perkins. The enemy will adapt to and then mitigate the actions of a weapons system or formation, so innovation must be constant.
    The Army is a globally responsive, regionally engaged force capable of decisive action across the range of military operations. Force 2025 and Beyond ensures the Army of the future will have empowered Soldiers and leaders who can exploit technology and operate with minimal guidance to bring greater lethality and agility to the battlefield as part of the joint force, he said.
    Perkins served as the 4th Inf. Div. commanding general from July 2009 to November 2011.

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    Date Taken: 02.09.2017
    Date Posted: 03.16.2017 15:12
    Story ID: 223843
    Location: FORT CARSON, CO, US
    Hometown: JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, VA, US

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