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Air Force, Army To Hold Joint Exercises On Multi-Domain Battle

By Marc Selinger

Thursday, January 25th, 2018

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Air Force, Army To Hold Joint Exercises On Multi-Domain Battle

Air Force Gen. James "Mike" Holmes, head of Air Combat Command, speaks at the Brookings Institution on Jan. 25, 2018. (Photo by Marc Selinger/Defense Daily)

The U.S. Air Force and Army plan to conduct a series of joint table-top exercises over the next year to refine ideas for fighting seamlessly across multiple domains, an Air Force official said Jan. 25.The Air Force’s Air Combat Command (ACC) and the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) are running the effort, said Gen. James "Mike" Holmes, ACC’s commander, who spoke at the Brookings Institution. Both commands are headquartered at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia. The exercises were supposed to…

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