ADA's Approach To Multi-Domain Operations

“For decades, the United States has enjoyed uncontested or dominant superiority in every operating domain. We could generally deploy our forces when we wanted, assemble where we wanted and operate how we wanted. Today, every domain is contested – air, land, sea, space and cyberspace”

National Defense Strategy 2018

- Brig. Gen. Randall McIntire

Multi-domain operations – the concept

Multi-domain operations is a concept that addresses increasingly capable adversaries who pose strategic risk to U.S. interests before and after the initiation of armed conflict. It postulates “how the Army as part of a joint force, will operate against peer adversaries to maintain U.S. interests, deter conflict and, when necessary, prevail in war.” 1 The multi-domain operations objectives are: compete short of war, turn denied spaces into contested spaces, defeat the enemy campaign and consolidate gains. 2 These objectives must be pursued and achieved in a contested environment of increased lethality, complexity and challenged deterrence that extends from local areas to across continents.