good morning teammates I'm Lieutenant General Biggs beagle the Commanding General of the U.S army combined arms Center on behalf of General James McConnell the chief of staff of the army and General Gary brittup the Commanding General of U.S army training and Doctrine command I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce the 2022 version of FM 30 operations this new doctrine represents an inflection point for the Army it marks our official transition to a new operating concept for army forces multi-domain operations are better known as mdo you may be asking yourself what is mdo and how does it apply to you and those that you lead fm3o reflects an evolution of army doctrine that retains the Timeless principles of War but is updated to meet the challenges of the current strategic environment our mission stays the same to be ready to deter adversaries and when called upon win the nation's Wars FM 30 describes how army forces fight it is also a catalyst for change across the Army and reinforces the Army's culture of training and education as critical for Success fm3o will drive updates to our organizations and Military education shape the Fielding of new technologies and inform the design of new weapon systems and other capabilities critical to our army as you read and learn about multi-domain operations you're going to notice that it still demands a high degree of War fighting competency from all branches and occupational Specialties and expands upon the idea that combined arms approaches require real subject matter expertise to be effective the Mastery required for Success only comes through a continuous commitment to learning through education training and experience like a professional athlete musician or doctor you have to do your homework you have to put in the hours during professional military education or pme self-study and tough realistic training in short our success depends on Preparation to assist you in your preparation my team here at CAC has assembled a mobile training team that will be coming around to centers of excellence installations and major organizations let's face it you're busy or you have a lot to do not everyone will be able to attend one of our mtts FM 30 training sessions so we've put together a video that will walk you through the major changes to Army Doctrine the brief that follows will help you launch your preparation it will introduce you to multi-domain operations and explain some of the significant changes introduced into the new fm30 Colonel retired Rich Creed the director of the combined arms Doctrine directorate or CAD here at Fort Leavenworth spearheaded the development of our Doctrine for multi-domain operations and delivers this breed riches and experienced Warfighter having served on active duty for over 30 years as an armor officer and commanded at all levels from company to Brigade as good as the brief will be it cannot address every question so we've developed a number of training support products listed at the end of the brief to further explain some of the doctrine warfighting Concepts introduced in the new publication if you still have questions don't hesitate to reach out to CAD for assistance lastly as you learn more about multi-domain operations and become masters of your craft remember that your nation expects you to be the best over to you rich good morning ladies and gentlemen my name is Rich Creed I'm the director of the combined arms doctor and director here at Fort Leavenworth Kansas we're going to talk this morning about the new FM 30 which is our Capstone operations for publication right that means IT addresses the high tactical operational level of war and it's designed to inform how the U.S army and army forces fight on behalf of Joint Force commanders and so what that means is that all of our Doctrine is going to be influenced in one way shape or form by the things that are contained in fm30 so this briefing by itself is not enough to make you an expert on what's In the book we need everybody particularly folks in the leadership position to be familiar with what's contained in fm3o because it should drive how we train organize and equip our army for 2030. okay and so we're going to talk through a bunch of different ideas again some of them will get into more detail than others but the intent here is to give you a general sense of what's in fm3o and why it's important to you here's our agenda I'm going to talk a little bit about the evolution of our operational Concepts over the last 40 years and then you can see basically we're going to follow the chapters of the book we're not going to hit every single chapter or appendix appendix but we are going to talk about some of the information that's contained in those books or on in those chapters that are not listed on the agenda all right so let's talk about how our Doctrine evolves over time now those of you in the audience that have significant gray hair that joint Army in the 80s or 90s have operated according to all four of the operational Concepts you see up there on the chart and so they were all multi-domain Concepts in one way shape or form if you look at the name AirLand Battle by its very title and it talks about air ground integration right and it introduced this idea of a multi-domain extended Battlefield where we need to affect enemy forces beyond that immediate close fight if we were going to have a good chance of winning and over time those Concepts have evolved you can see the timelines up there and each of the years up on the chart is another version of either 100-5 or fm30 that the Army published why did we change those over time well we changed them because the world around us changed and the things that the Army was asked to focus on over time change so if it was large-scale ground combat against the Warsaw Pact and North Korea up through the early 90s over time there were other things that our army was expected to do in places like Somalia Haiti the Balkans and so forth and so we we moved this idea of full spectrum operations where the Army does Windows right we don't just get to focus on one thing we have to do all of the things that our nation requires us to do over time we learn lessons and in Iraq and Afghanistan we realized that we needed to make a few changes and that's where unified land operations came from all right but even then starting in 2017 that operational environment changed we're going to talk about that in a minute but what that did is drive us towards a focus beginning in 2017 not just on some of the ideas in that multi-domain battle now multi-domain operations concept but also a focus on large-scale combat operations against pure threats like a Russia or China that can contest the U.S Joint Force in all domains all right so now in 2022 dated one October we released the new fm30 that makes multi-domain operations our operational concept still with a focus on large-scale combat operations against peer threats like a Russia a China Iran or North Korea all right so let's talk about the reasons why here the Strategic environment the national defense strategy talked about the four plus one or the two plus three uh China Russia North Korea Iran and then those violent extremist organizations that we still conduct operations against even today and so while the focus of this book is large-scale combat operations we recognize that the Army from a doctrinal standpoint has got to be able to conduct irregular warfare and so forth we've got other books that address those types of operations and we continue to update those books but that's not our Focus here today it's the focus on 3-0 and that preparation for an execution of large-scale combat operations against peer threats you see the threat methods up there they're very Broad but they are things that were distilled out by the tradoc G2 in terms of uh the the approaches and adversary or an enemy would be most likely to use against the U.S Joint Force and so they're pretty self-explanatory when you think systems Warfare think integrated fires complexes integrated air defense systems enabled by a global ISR capabilities when you think preclusion you think about them trying to keep us out of some place isolation you can think of in terms of either attacking or Coalition Partners to separate them from us or you can think about in terms of physical isolation of U.S friendly forces or Allied and partner forces position outside of the continental United States that they're trying to keep uh the rest of the U.S Joint Force from conducting expeditionary operations to support uh and then sanctuary and we've seen Sanctuary those of us that were in Iraq or Afghanistan uh but even looking at the war in Ukraine this idea that you use international borders to protect uh in this case the adversary forces from uh interdiction by U.S forces we saw that in places like Pakistan or Iran during the wars in suncom over the last 20 years and then people often ask okay so what makes uh a North Korea or an Iran somebody we would consider a pure threat well we consider them a peer threat in the context of where they would be most likely to conduct operations particularly at the beginning of a campaign they they enjoy Pretty Natural advantages in terms of interior lines cultural Affinity with the nations in there near abroad the willingness to move slowly over time to achieve their objectives and the advantages they have in terms of time and space to move very quickly to achieve those objectives before we can conduct expeditionary operations out of the Continental in the United States they have capabilities they can contest this on all domains like cyber capabilities or the ability to access civilian space capabilities you know to a level that was unheard of 15 or 20 years ago there are things now that are available as publicly available information to our adversaries that would have been a top secret classified to very high levels just a short time ago and we see that occurring in Ukraine right before us uh and and so I already talked about the violent extremist organizations but again they're not something that we can ignore and they are something that they're the adversary or enemy that we're most likely to conduct operations in a continuous basis however but those peer threats like a Russia trying to represent accidental threats to the United States potentially right so they're the most dangerous uh form of conflict that the Army could be asked to engage in and what does that mean well it's about accepting risk so we're not going to accept risk in terms of preparation for large-scale combat against peer threats because you have time to adapt to a lesser threat right so if you can deal with a Russia or China you ought to be able to deal with the North Korea Iran or violent extremist organizations if we were to focus on the most common form of conflict the regular Warfare we would not be in a position to win at acceptable costs against any of those other adversaries all right so multi-domain operations you got the description there at the top of the chart there's a couple ideas there that are important some of them are not new they're enduring as we said earlier Doctrine is evolutionary but this idea of combined arms employment of joint and army capabilities that is what makes this concept multi-domain when you as soon as you talk joint you're talking about domains other than land-centric forces uh you know employed by us or our allies and partners on the ground uh this other idea is that we have to create and exploit relative advantages with this situational awareness about what's possible in those different domains and we're going to talk about that when we talk about combined arms here in a little bit and then to do what to what purpose all right so we talk about achieving objectives we achieve objectives short of armed conflict right when we contribute to Conventional deterrence or what the national defense strategy Now talks about in terms of integrated deterrence uh but we also defeat enemy forces during conflict and then we need to consolidate gains on behalf of those Joint Force commanders using the capabilities we bring to bear from the land to achieve those long-term strategic objectives in some sort of way that's enduring in terms of the National Security both for the United States of America and our allies and partners and so below that you see a couple of the different ideas so this idea of complementary and reinforcing that's exactly what combined arms is and this idea that we need to think about advantages and relative advantages in terms of the three dimensions of the operational environment the human the physical and the information we need to remember that in this type of operational environment land forces are going to play a significant role in terms of enabling the other service components for a Joint Force Commander so land forces operating from Land can enable the air and Maritime components of the Joint Force and we have to get used to that idea instead of the last 20 or 25 years where the land component was always a supported component by the other services primarily right and that comes into play when we talk about operations for example in a maritime dominated environment uh the concept is applicable to all echelons right from the theater Army all the way down to squads and the reason for that is we all work in in a single operational environment that's characterized uh by those aspects of that operational environment that are applicable to our assigned areas or our areas of operation and so we need to be able to understand what the threat can bring to bear against us in terms of the five domains in the three dimensions and we need to understand what's the order the possible in terms of what we can employ to our own advantage against those threats um they're applicable across that joint competition Continuum so we talk about contexts in which we conduct the operations on behalf of Joint Force commanders and we talk about competition below the threshold of armed conflict we talk about crisis and then we talk about conflict and then lastly this book much like in 2017 spends a lot of time talking about the importance of the defeat mechanisms and how we want to employ those defeat mechanisms in combination is simultaneously as possible to create unsolvable dilemmas and you'll see that creating those types of multiple dilemmas for the threat is one of the imperatives of multi-domain operations we have been saying that multi-domain operations that all Army operations are multi-domain operations since 2017. right so for most people that are familiar with our current Doctrine this is not a significant change but what we have been able to do based on experimentation uh training exercises and so forth over the last five years is to codify multi-domain operations into a doctrine that the current force between now and 2030 can execute against anybody anywhere in the world