The latter two have the service particularly worried as they can be used to degrade or cut off command and control on the battlefield. Mark Milley, is being ordered to prepare for battles in multiple domains, including land, sea and air as well as the electromagnetic spectrum and cyber space. The Army, at the direction of Chief of Staff Gen. “As we currently operate them, they are not adequately mobile and if you examine closely the electro-magnetic signatures of our command posts, they are not survivable,” he said. Rivals have improved their ability to not only find these command posts, but to quickly link their sensors to shooters, dramatically reducing the kill chain timeline, he said. “They have developed capability that put us at significant risk if we don’t make investments now to mitigate those risks.” “They have gone to school on us,” Crawford said. Currently, peer competitors would be able to easily locate a command post through its electromagnetic signals, or even signatures given off by power generators. Other nations may have the same ability, although Crawford declined to name them.Ĭommand posts must be more survivable and mobile, the Army has concluded.
The Russian military’s ability to quickly find and destroy Ukrainian command posts made that manifest, Crawford acknowledged. Crawford, Army chief information officer, said at the Association of the United States Army’s annual conference in Washington, D.C. “If our tactical command posts can be found, then they can be killed,” Lt. The Army sees its tactical command posts as a major battlefield vulnerability as potential adversaries become better at locating and destroying them.
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