LibGuides: Multi-Domain Operations: Cross-Domain and Maneuver

Cross-Domain

Topic: Cross Domain An Army Overseas Expeditionary Maneuver through the Maritime Domain. (ARTICLE) Abstract: The article discusses the need for the U.S. Army to return as an expeditionary force to effectively tackle the global challenges that it confronts as of March 2018. Also cited are the vulnerabilities of the Army's legacy force-flow model called reception, staging, onward movement and integration (RSOI), the anti-access warfare used by its enemies, as well as the joint capabilities required to conduct expeditionary maneuver including sea control and ship-to-shore connectors. By: Lythgoe, Trent J. Military Review. Mar/Apr2018, Vol. 98 Issue 2, p72-80. 9p.

Topic: Cross Domain Beyond Planning: Ensuring Mission Success Even When Situations Change. (ARTICLE) Abstract: The article focuses on the need for cross-domain synergy on which the U.S. Joint Staff Force Development presents a planner guide titled "Cross-Domain Synergy in Joint Operations". It discusses the need for decentralization of decision making and capabilities and the action vice planning with military leaders for achieving success against the enemy. By: Wesley, Eric; Bailey, Desmond. Army Magazine. Nov2018, Vol. 68 Issue 11, p32-35. 4p.

Topic: Cross Domain Cross-Domain Obscuration: 'More Than A Smoke Grenade'. Abstract: The article discusses the employment of cross-domain obscuration by U.S. Army infantry to obscure movement and maneuver at critical points. Topics covered include the enemy's use of multiple domain sensors to detect the infantry's signature across the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS), and then target and destroy it, and obscuration training techniques to acquire friendly units across the EMS. Also noted is the commander's task to obscure broadcasted emissions based on the mission assigned. By: Yerkes, Andy. Infantry. Jan-Mar2017, p10-13. 4p.

Topic: Cross-Domain Maneuver Support: From Concept to Future Employment (ARTICLE) -- After nearly 15 years of conducting operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army is broadening its focus to near-peer competitors, engaging the United States in what is called conventional warfare. Consequently, Army leaders and planners are heavily engaged in developing concepts and capabilities to deter and defeat these comparable future adversaries. In the near- to far-term, solutions include upgrading existing equipment, procuring new systems, updating or creating new doctrine in the current force, and developing concepts and capabilities that anticipate projected technological advances and changes in geopolitical realities. Here, Nobles examines key Army concepts used to guide this fundamental shift and realignment of focus to major combat operations across all domains, details the purpose of the maneuver support functional concept, and highlights the maneuver support community role within that construct now and into the future. By: Nobles, Benjamin. Engineer ; Washington Vol. 48, Iss. 2, (May-Aug 2018): 32-34. 2p.

Requirement for New Joint Operating Concept (2019)
It explores the need for cross-domain synergy to offset the Joint Force’s emerging relative combat power disadvantage as China races towards qualitative parity. Finally, it deconstructs the Chinese strategy of System Destruction Warfare and assesses the corresponding threat it poses to the Joint Force achieving cross-domain synergy.
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Naval War College. The Army and Marine Corps initiated development of Multi-Domain Battle (MDB) as a future operating concept in 2016. In 2018, and in newfound partnership with the Air Force, MDB evolved into Multi-Domain Operations (MDO).13MDO, like the CCJO, identifies five domains and assumes that a future adversary contests all five domains. Central to the concept of MDO, as with the CCJO,is the idea that cross-domain synergy enables the convergence of effects from multiple domains and that those effects are greater than the sum of their parts.14MDO goes farther than the joint concept and provides an operational framework and theoretical solutions (compete, penetrate, dis-integrate, exploit and re-compete) for the problems inherent to21st-century conflict.The MDO framework, identified in Figure 1, successfully coalesces Army, Marine Corps,and Air Force operational frameworks.15 More recently, the Navy initiated development on a future operating concept for maritime conflict.