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Jeff LPH 3 sent along this story that the Army is shuttering the Asymmetric Warfare Group.<\/p>\n
For nearly 15 years a little known but highly influential Army group has been in the middle of how the Army learns immediate lessons from combat, adapts to the evolving battlefield and saves soldiers’ lives.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s called Asymmetric Warfare Group, and the Army is shutting it down next year.<\/p>\n
The Army made its official announcement today that by mid-2021, AWG will be discontinued.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So what is it that the AWG did?<\/p>\n
By their own accounting, AWG provided 24 material solutions, 92 non-material solutions and at least 35 solutions that combined both material and non-material efforts. Those spanned everything from the Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile, or Switchblade, to reducing electromagnetic signature reduction.<\/p>\n
Along the way, AWG published 72 key guides, from training aides to handy pocket reference guides and full handbooks.<\/p>\n
Those publications covered Russian New Generation Warfare, Chinese land warfare strategies and the aftermath of bloody fighting in Mosul and Raqqah, and many other subjects. From these documents a larger Army and joint strategy has emerged in how to fight wars now and in the future.<\/p>\n
Some of those papers are the foundational documents for the Army\u2019s practical approach to great power competition, many predating the actual shift in the National Defense Strategy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Oh, there’s also an expensive training facility they built.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s not yet clear what is going to be done with the $94 million urban training facility, considered state of the art by some urban warfare experts, complete with a tunnel system and areas for complex training.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Army is currently determining the final disposition of the facility,\u201d a spokesman told Army Times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
While no reasons are given for the planned closure, it’s thought that this is part of the larger push within DoD to shift from counterinsurgency operations and back into doctrine of large-scale conflict against a near-peer adversary.<\/p>\n
I think maintaining the capability to unleash strategic and tactical hell on any enemy that might try us is a good thing, but for the last several decades we’ve been conducting more low intensity, COIN-type operations. Sounds like we might be losing a lot of knowledge with this shutdown. Knowledge that was earned with blood. They say all the work of the AWG will be retained at TRADOC facilities. We all know that it will remain there until such time as a lot of American blood is being spilled again, to unearth what we’ve forgotten.<\/p>\n
More at the source; Army Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"