Army Capabilities Integration Center

U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command

Strategic Landpower and Force 2025 and Beyond

Implications for Technology

MG Bill Hix

Army Capabilities Integration Center

U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command

America’s Force of Decisive Action Unclassified

The Army’s Strategic Vision and Priorities

The All‐Volunteer Army will remain the most highly trained and

professional land force in the world. It is uniquely organized with

the capability and capacity to provide expeditionary, decisive

landpower to the Joint Force and ready to perform across the

range of military operations to Prevent, Shape, and Win in support

of Combatant Commanders to defend the Nation and its interests

at home and abroad, both today and against emerging threats.

Strategic Priorities

• Adaptive Army Leaders for a Complex World

• A Globally Responsive and Regionally Engaged Army

• A Ready and Modern Army

• Soldiers Committed to Our Army Profession

• The Premier All Volunteer Army

22 Jan 2014

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Strategic and Operational Initiatives in Context

Rapid

Expeditionary

Deployment

Initiative

Force

2025 Partnership

Regionally Engaged Globally Responsive

Regionally

Aligned

Forces

Crisis

Response

Force (USMC)

Global

Response

Force (GRF)

Global SOF

Network

(USSOCOM)

Operationally

Significant

Force (USA)

Crisis

3

Maneuver

Strategically Expeditionary

Maneuver

ARMY 2020 A more globally responsive

force, capable of decisive

action across the ROMO

Force 2025 A leaner, more lethal,

expeditionary, and agile

force than today

Beyond 2025 A fundamentally changed

force, uniquely enabled and

organized to conduct

expeditionary maneuver

GLOBAL LAND POWER NETWORK

Prevent, Shape, and Win in support of Combatant Commanders to defend the Nation

and its interests at home and abroad, both today and against emerging threats

RISING VELOCITY OF HUMAN INTERACTION

Today’s Investments Must Secure the Future 2020 2025 2030 - 2040

Achieve Force 2025, a leaner, more lethal, expeditionary, and agile force that maintains overmatch and set conditions for the Force Beyond 2025, fundamentally changed,

uniquely enabled and organized to conduct expeditionary maneuver

Time

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Today’s security

capability rests

on 1990-2000’s

investment

National

investments

drive

fundamental

political and

social changes-

and ensure US

advantage

Today-2014

Are our investments

focused to meet the

needs of the Nation? …

must influence events at

the speed they unfold …

with less

CURRENT PATH

WEIGHTING ADAPTATION

AND EVOLUTION

ALTERNATIVE PATH

WEIGHTING INNOVATION

The current path is

UNLIKELY to sustain

our current

competitive

advantage

The Innovation path

is More LIKELY to

sustain / increase

our effectiveness

1 Potential risk to mission, force

and overmatch by 2025

PL

CO CDR

BN CDR

BDE CDR

4

Endstrength

80% of the

Army of 2020

is in the

force, or in

the Budget,

now.