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Army Official Details New Strategic Operations Directorate

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020

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Army Official Details New Strategic Operations Directorate

Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn, the Army's deputy chief of staff for operations

The Army’s deputy chief of staff operations said Wednesday his office has reorganized its cyber, electronic warfare, network mission command and space directorates into a single organization to better manage coordination efforts for future Multi-Domain Operations. Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn, the Army G-3/5/7, also detailed the Army’s newly tasked role leading contested logistics development under the new Joint All-Domain Operations warfighting concept being developed across the services. “As Multi-Domain Operations, the future operating concept, continues to evolve we recognized that…

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