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Agile Warrior
What it is; Why we are doing it;

What we have done;

Future Character of Conflict; Agile Warrior 11, Urban Warrior 1 & 2; Agile Warrior 12, Urban Warrior 3,4,5, Mad Scientist;

What we are planning to do; Illustrate some challenges.

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Agile Warrior 3* Guidance

Series of activities designed to get the Army Thinking;
Deliver an authoritative evidence-based analysis of future land-force requirements within a JIIM context; Across all Lines of Development; FCOC era out to 2020; Policy aware not policy constrained; By the Army not to the Army; Brand name.
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The Future Battlespace

Contested All geographies of operation are contested Sea, land, air & space, cyberspace and information Congested To influence people we have to operate in, over and close to where they live. People live in urban areas in the littoral There is no empty battlefield Cluttered Network Enabled Capability will not fully lift the fog of war We need to understand and to discriminate Connected Networks - source of strength for friend and foe Nodes are also a source of weakness Constrained Legal and social norms - essential to our legitimacy will limit us but not our adversaries

More Constrained

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Adversaries
Hezbollah is not your fathers terrorist organisation. This is not a group of loosely affiliated cells of would-be hijackers or suicide bombers. Hezbollah is a terrorist army, trained like an army, organised like an army, funded and equipped like an army. Israeli Officers assessment after the July War 2006

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Putting the Cold War to Bed

Preference for operating in the open: deserts and plains Apply technological advantage Expect force on force engagement Situational Awareness of forces Relative neutrality of political and cultural context
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Agile Warrior 11
7 Questions
1. Test the ability of the TAS structure to transition to best-effort Divisional level operations in a hybrid conflict. 2. Test how a Multi Role Bde will fight and operate in a hybrid conflict. Test how our sustainment and service support organisations will operate in hybrid conflict. 3. Evaluate and determine the Armys future C2 requirements and associated models, for ISTAR and CIS. 4. Determine the Understand demands of continuous modulated engagement and deployed brigade operations and recommend the optimum structures to meet them. 5. Determine the nature of future demand on commanders and soldiers. 6. In what ways will we need increased Army agility in the future and how should we look to promote it? 7. Test and evaluate the major constituent parts of our current doctrine and determine its necessary conceptual direction of travel in the next 10 years.

Urban Warrior 1
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Experimental Methods
Training Exercises Military Judgement Panels Academic Studies MAPEXes and TEWTs Think Tanks OA On-line collaboration MN Engagement Industrial engagement

Red Teaming Scrutiny

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AW 11 Emerging Insights, Themes and Deductions

Understanding, Intelligence and Information Fusion Optimising the Force:
Combined arms manoeuvre Experience base Divisional level eqpt challenge Standardisation: interoperability.

Multi Role Bde: Resilience in stabilisation Processes and Training Reserves: Graduated Readiness/Whole Force Concept Optimizing for high density urban operations Control of the Air Tanks and armour: resetting the start point Professionalizing leader development

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Force Design Principles

Developing People Investing in and developing the people required for the future force. Professionalising ISTAR Enabling and resourcing the exploitation of knowledge and information. Fighting and Operating Generating and agile future force able to deliver land fighting power. Sustainment Providing flexible support that enables and enhances the fighting force.
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Recommendations (1 of 3)
Training
Place significantly greater emphasis on the value of officer and soldiers cognitive skills. Establish a robust training regime to deliver a force proficient in urban operations, including the subterranean environment. Establish the capability and structures required to conduct logistic manoeuvre, including organic FP. Establish the capability required to conduct ISTAR collection, fusion and dissemination at the sub unit level.

Equipment

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Recommendations (2 of 3)
People
Review from first principles our career, selection, promotion, management and reward structures. Establish the IM/IX CONEMP and structures in all Bde HQs. Establish a Defence end to end Knowledge Management (KM) plan, plus the detailed information requirements for an MRB in oreder to develop a flexible CIS architecture which enables C2 across the mosaic of conflict.

Information

Doctrine to follow after synthesis of WP 7 activity 09 Mar 11.

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Recommendations (3 of 3)
Organisation/Structure
Establish the nature of the 2* level of command. Establish MRBs which are modular and interoperable, with standardised SOPs and protocols, which enable manoeuvre operations as the default setting and enhance MN interoperability. Review the provision of training and infrastructure facilities within the home base to enable effective force generation. Ensure logistics structures are robust and flexible enough in order to generate best effort.
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Infrastructure

Logistics

Capability Drivers
Combined arms manoeuvre: protection and mobility De (and re-)centralisation of C2 Urban fires:

Grouping of armour: trend of close support to dismounts : common situational awareness: comms ISR amongst the clutter:
Manoeuvre Buildings Discrimination Contextual understanding

Engagement ranges Direct fire elevations / depressions

Air control and ground manoeuvre

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Urban Warrior 2
TEWT in Southampton; 3 Syndicates, 3 Scenarios, 3 Days; Army Senior Leadership engaged.

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UW 2 Outputs
Engagement ranges of weapon systems; Methods of gaining understanding in the urban environment: recce and int; Endurance of forces, both physical (sustainment) and cognitive (information overload); Urban planning yard-sticks; Less than lethal or reduced collateral damage munitions and weapons; Judgemental training in the complex urban environment; The utility of area suppression weapons in the urban environment; The need to quantify the balance of precision vs suppression fires;
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AGILE WARRIOR 12

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AW 12 Provisional Question List

1 Urban Operations; 2 Cyber and Influence; 3 C2 at Div. and Bde; 4 Whole Force Concept;
Contractors & Reserves

5 UORs into Core; 6 National Interests; 7 Professional Development; 8 Force Support;

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UW 3

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UW 3
1 Mech Bde Training Exercise; 2 6 Oct; 4 Experimental themes;
1 Tactical Bases; 2 Operations in an Urban Environment; 3 Cross-Component Integration; 4 Multi-National Operations.
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Participation Opportunities
Ex UW4;
Industry TEWT of UW3, early Nov; Limited Pax, incl S&T shapers;

Ex Mad Scientist;
Symposium exploring UW4 issues; Knowledge sharing; Aimed at Engineers and Scientists;
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UW 4 Scheme of Manoeuvre
1st, 2nd Nov 2011 A TEWT based in Southampton played against the backdrop of UW vignettes.
Public Order, Complex Ambush, Transition to CAM

Syndicates will receive an orientation to the scenario and to the deductions and insights from UW2 & 3. They will then deploy to Southampton to selected locations to provoke discussion and improve understanding of the challenge of urban operations in 2020.

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Complex Ambush

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Combined Arms Manoeuvre

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Public Order

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Ex Mad Scientist
Symposium;

Sharing across Dstl, Industry, Academia; UW 2,3,4 threads and themes; Scientist and Engineers talking;
Connecting people; building communities;
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Seeking ideas for the future; Whats hot, easy, available; Whats hard, challenging, old, costly;

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Ex Mad Scientist
Exploring
Sub-terrainian Weapons High Rise Riverine UW 3 outcomes Comms ISTAR
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Exploitation
Generating the context for decisions; Exploring areas for S&T investment; Experimenting where possible; Finding new ways to fight and operate; Making best use of our resources;
Open to your ideas; Finding the Agile Edge; Collective experiences; Identifying deficiencies; Common understanding;

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Technology Challenges - Urban

Low Collateral Damage Weapons; NLW for Crowd Control; Persistent and useful ISTAR; Communications; Cyber & Influence; Below ground;
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Science Challenges
Understanding People and Culture;
Ours and theirs;

Physical and Mental resilience; Recruitment, selection & training; Cognitive Manoeuvre; Chem bio hazards;
Backstreet labs;
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