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Army Begins Shift To Multi-Domain Battle Concept Of Operations

Tuesday, October 4th, 2016

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Army Begins Shift To Multi-Domain Battle Concept Of Operations

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley addresses the Association of the U.S. Army's 2016 annual meeting in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Dan Parsons)

The Army is set to reorganize the way it fights around a new concept where it will shoot down aircraft and sink ships at sea in addition to performing offensive and defensive ground warfare.“We are going to sink ships,” Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said Tuesday during his keynote address to the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual exposition in Washington, D.C.Milley laid out a vision for the future of the Army in which large, relatively independent units…

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