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14 OPERATIONALISING A EUROPEAN SECURITY STRATEGY Annex contains some specific ideas based upon the material prepared for the CDP Strand B and the LTV, which pMS may wish to consider prior to the Workshops. Command and Control ANNEX POTENTIAL TRENDS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF FUTURE MILITARY CAPABILITIES IN THE 2025 TIMEFRAME • To improve combat identification in order to further reduce the potential for ‘friendly-fire’ incidents. • To be sufficiently proficient at C4ISR to operate at a tempo that will outpace and dominate potential adversaries, including when faced with an irregular adversary or asymmetric tactics. • To increase language and cultural awareness to facilitate the expansion of partner capacity and to develop a greater understanding of emerging powers and how they may approach strategic choices. • The ability to communicate EU actions effectively to multiple audiences, while rapidly countering adversary agitation and propaganda. • To plan and conduct complex interagency operations. • To effectively disrupt and defeat adversary’s networks. • To secure broadband communications into denied or contested areas to support penetrating surveillance and strike systems. • Capabilities to shape and defend cyberspace. • Joint command and control capabilities that are survivable in the face of WMD, electronic-, or cyberattacks. • To employ robust and coherent, rapidly deployable force headquarters to meet the range of potential contingencies. Provide Intelligence • To provide knowledge at all levels of operations so that the response to contingencies can be planned, organised and executed effectively. This includes an understanding of the threat, the environment (political, social and physical) and combined capabilities. • To gather, analyse and distribute information and to manage efficiently all aspects of operations - the heart of NEC. • To exploit systems to the full to enhance fusion, analysis and accessibility of data collected, so as to improve responsiveness and provide better support to commanders. • Improved stand-off sensors do not remove the requirement for timely and accurate human intelligence (HUMINT) and to discern the intentions of the enemy, particularly in the field at the operational and tactical levels. • To ensure persistent surveillance to find and precisely target enemy capabilities in denied areas. • To locate, tag and track adversaries in all domains, including cyberspace. • To fuse intelligence and operations to speed-up action based upon time-sensitive intelligence. • To exploit persistent surveillance, including systems that can penetrate and loiter in denied or contested areas. • To locate, tag, track, characterise and secure WMD. • To locate WMD delivery systems and related materials, including the means to move such items. • To carry out persistent surveillance over wide areas to locate WMD capabilities. • To establish an “unblinking eye” over the battlespace through persistent surveillance will be fundamental to conducting effective joint operations. • To support operations against any target, day or night, in any weather, and in denied or contested areas. • To integrate global awareness capacities with tactical level knowledge, with an ability to reach back to national intelligence collection systems and analytic capabilities. • To develop supporting architectures that transfers intelligence data collected in the theatre to the users, rather than deploying users to the theatre. • Future ISR capabilities must be designed to collect information that will help decision-makers mitigate Casa - Spain © EUFOR Tchad RCA FUTURE TRENDS FROM THE CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN
OPERATIONALISING A EUROPEAN SECURITY STRATEGY surprise and anticipate potential adversaries’ actions. • The future force will define ISR needs by sensor or type of intelligence needed rather than the platforms that carry the sensors or the medium in which they operate. This approach will facilitate the substitution of one capability for another to achieve the same effect, and will allow the suppliers of sensor capability to meet the requirement more efficiently. 15 Conduct Manoeuvre and Joint Fires • To deliver a decisive impact across the required spectrum of operations and to ensure the defeat of advanced threats. • To exploit stealth and advanced electronic warfare capabilities when and where they are needed. • To be proficient in irregular warfare, including counterinsurgency and stabilisation operations. • To be able to sustain long-duration irregular operations, while exploiting reachback to non-deployed elements of the force. • To project air power from both the land and the sea, offering capabilities across the range of air operations that have greater range and persistence; larger and more flexible payloads for surveillance or strike; and the ability to penetrate and sustain operations in denied areas. • Long range stand-off precision strike capability will be required to conduct time-sensitive operations, by fusing intelligence and operations at the tactical level and with larger numbers of Joint Tactical Air Controllers to achieve a higher level of joint ground-air integration. • An increased availability of ‘smart’ bombs must be available to ensure a high degree of accuracy in offensive operations. • An appropriate force package may need to be generated for each operation, drawing from a flexible and balanced force structure of heavier and lighter forces. The heavy forces provide firepower, integral tactical mobility and protection necessary to carry out land manoeuvre but require a considerable effort to deploy and to be supported on operations. Whereas lighter forces can deploy more rapidly, but lack the firepower, mobility and protection to conduct decisive operations against an enemy equipped with armour and mechanised forces. • To be modular in structure at all levels, largely self-sustaining and capable of operating both in traditional formations as well as disaggregating into smaller, autonomous units. • Mobility will be central to effective manoeuvre in all operations in order to deliver the right effect at the right time and in the right location. Such effectiveness will be measured not in material moved but by the operational effects they helped to achieve. • To enhance non-lethal capabilities. • To perfect urban warfare capabilities. • To strike at fleeting targets rapidly, placing a premium on capabilities that are responsive and survivable, able to destroy moving targets in all weather conditions, exploit non-traditional intelligence and conduct next generation electronic warfare. Radio FrequencyTransmission Line Test © BAE Systems • In the maritime environment there may be an increasing emphasis on delivering effect from the sea onto the land, which includes a land attack capability, supporting forces ashore and on securing access to the theatre of operations and protecting the crucial sea lines of communications from the home base. • To use undersea warfare capabilities to exploit stealth and enhance deterrence. • To be able to operate in blue, brown and green waters. Ensure Force Protection and Security • In the face of continuing proliferation of WMD, capability to operate when threatened with the use of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) weapons, by developing enhanced detection systems, physical protection, vaccines and other medical countermeasures. • To have broad spectrum medical countermeasures to defend against genetically engineered or naturally mutating pathogens for which there are no current defences. • To defend and respond against WME attacks, as well to deter such attacks by demonstrating the ability to deny an adversary’s objectives. • To train, equip, and advise indigenous forces. • To manage the consequences of major catastrophic events. FUTURE TRENDS FROM THE CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN
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