Army Pivots to ‘Full-spectrum’ Training by Jon Harper, Stars & Stripes
After a decade of counterinsurgency, the Army is trying to retrain the force to fight other types of conflicts. But budget cuts threaten that effort.
Sequestration is looming at a time when Pentagon officials are concerned that the Army’s conventional warfighting skills have atrophied while the force has been fighting insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. That decay would be problematic if the U.S. military had to carry out an operation similar to Desert Storm, which saw American ground forces pound Saddam Hussein’s enormous army into submission in the early 1990s…
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I believe this is a good move. Our military and Special Ops was looking too much like glorified SWAT Teams. Maneuver without fires, police work. Get away from the snoop and poop, to I'll blow you away. Get back to the use of Fire Support Coordinators and some real fire and maneuver with emphasis on fires. Return to the fact that logistics supports our maneuver forces and not some host nation.
I expected better from S&S and Deputy SECDEF. Full Spectrum Operations (FSO) have not existed for a couple of years. I was at JRTC when they did the first Unified Land Operations (ULO)in 2011. There no FSO any more just ULO.
Leadership bleed off and the massive amount of training hours spent on everything from IA certs to SHARP training is probably a bigger problem then the budget.