Training Outside "The Box"
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2023-12-05
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Association of the United States Army (AUSA)
Abstract
The realities of modern warfare are that America’s principal adversaries can disrupt any step in the deployment process, resulting in cascading gridlock. The first time these Soldiers will contact the enemy will be at home station, through adversary information warfare. While they are transporting their equipment, the enemy will take deliberate action to delay and disrupt Soldiers’ ability to enter the combat theater. The enemy will be maneuvering in the cyber domain and exploiting publicly available information to disrupt and influence Soldiers before they even step on the battlefield. This paper contends that the addition of an information warfare company to the opposing force (OPFOR) battalions can better prepare rotational training units at combat training centers (CTCs) for the difficulties of modern warfare. Additionally, expanding the training scope to integrate pre-deployment infrastructure wargame exercises and adding a microtargeting risk assessment team to the operations group would ensure that deploying Soldiers are prepared to confront the asymmetric challenges of the current multidomain battlefield.
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Infrastructure, Jack Voltaic, Combat Training Center, Information Warfare
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Eerhart, Daniel. “Training Outside ‘The Box.’” AUSA, December 11, 2023. https://www.ausa.org/publications/training-outside-box.