U.S. Army Capstone Concept (PDF) - Defense Innovation Marketplace

TRADOC Pam 525-3-0c. Enhance advisory capabilities. The demand for Army special operations and conventionalforces to provide security cooperation and other advisory capabilities will increase. The Armyprovides security cooperation capabilities to support combatant commander theater campaignplans, and it builds the capacity of partners to secure populations, protect infrastructure, andstrengthen institutions. As demand for these capabilities grows, the Army must provide thepersonnel, training, organizational structures, mission command and leadership, and institutionalsupport needed for planning, assessing, and executing security cooperation activities.d. Project military power despite anti-access and area denial challenges. To enable theNation to project military power, the Army must maintain a rapidly deployable and capableglobal response force, provide deployable joint and coalition-capable headquarters, and conductentry operations, including forcible entry, 29 to defeat anti-access and area denial strategies. 30Army forces must be responsive and powerful enough to impact the joint fight early, and possessthe mobility and firepower to enable joint force commanders to develop the situation in closecontact with the enemy. Power projection forces rely on a balance of strategic and operationallift, presence, and prepositioning to respond quickly in areas where conflicts may occur. 31 TheArmy must also maintain the capability to set theaters of operations in support of joint andmultinational forces, whenever and for however long necessary. 32 However, offset -- thegeographic distance between forces and objectives -- can avoid anti-access and area denial, butanti-access in contested areas is continuous unless eliminated; thus, the Army must work toreduce its dependence on air and sea ports of debarkation.e. Conduct cyberspace operations. The Army requires a full range of cyberspace andelectromagnetic spectrum capabilities to provide commanders the ability to adapt to rapidlychanging missions, conduct decentralized operations over wide areas, maintain operationalfreedom of maneuver, exercise mission command, and gain and maintain the initiative incyberspace during unified land operations. Because enemies are likely to leverage cybercapabilities to enable their operations and attack and exploit the U.S. and its military forces fromcyberspace, the Army must develop the ability to counter cyber threats successfully, mitigatedegraded access to cyberspace, and take local actions against enemy cyber capabilities to achievelocal effect. Additionally, Army forces must coordinate their efforts across the joint operationalcyber framework and with interagency partners, allies, and commercial industry.f. Conduct space operations. The Army requires access to space capabilities to exerciseeffective mission command and support combatant commanders. National, civil, commercial,and international space capability providers operate a wide range of systems in space that enablethe Army to plan, prepare, and execute unified land operations. The Army relies on thesesystems to provide rapid worldwide communication and coordination of friendly actions,develop situational awareness, gather information about adversaries, and enable a wide range ofjoint interdependencies to include direct downlink theater missile warning. To accomplish thesetasks, the Army requires leaders and Soldiers trained to initiate and maintain access to spacecapabilities and who can mitigate attempts to deny, degrade, and disrupt that access.g. Achieve war termination objectives. Future Army leaders must understand the combatantcommander’s objectives for war termination. War termination objectives should achieve thePresident and Secretary of Defense national strategic objectives and provide outcomes that will17