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ISR will give Army of the future By Frank Tiboni, Defense News Media Group
Future battles will be fought in city and urban centers, and they will be nasty. So the Army will need the ability to see through building walls and underground, and to quickly send and receive data from airborne systems, letting them outsmart and outfight the enemy, said Keith Masback, director of Army ISR integration, Nov. 21 at the ISR Integration Conference: “Shrinking the Sensor-to-Shooter Cycle.” “The U.S. Army will enter into close combat on our choosing,” Masback said. The Army’s superior ISR capability, compared with that of the enemy, will let it fight that way, Masback said. Instead of massing formations — the conventional style of warfare that coalition forces used in Desert Storm and the U.S. military employed to deter the Soviet Union in Europe — future wars will require the Army to mass effects to defeat the enemy rapidly and decisively, anywhere at any time, he said. The former Army infantry officer said an ISR capability that gives commanders and soldiers instant access to an enemy’s history, culture, tactics and positions on the battlefield will give the service the versatility to prevail in diverse conditions. “Knowledge is the edge,” Masback said. He also argued that it is time to remove ISR from C4ISR because too many people associate the acronym with communications. C4 stands for command, control, communications and intelligence. Masback said ISR should stand alone to serve command and control. Back |
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