1. Trained to Fight as a Joint or Combined Force: Tomorrow's Army must be capable of fighting from battalion task force to theater level as part of a joint/combined force.

We are committed to maintaining our edge over any potential adversary through aggressive training at the combat training centers, the Battle Command Training Program, the pursuit of modemization and technology development, and focused efforts to develop leaders.

-- We have increased our emphasis on stewardship of resources. We are leveraging training aids, simulators and simulation to maintain the combat cutting-edge while conserving dollars, and we are improving management initiatives, contracting methods and environmental programs.

The Army of today is already changing. Tomorrow's
Army must be:

Desert Storm demonstrated the power inherent in joint operations across a nonlinear battlefield, and the importance of synchronizing the complementary warfighting capabilities of all the services. The Army will continue to emphasize the importance of joint training exercises and the development of effective joint doctrine. Internationally, the United States will continue to support collective security arrangements and forward presence to signal U.S. commitment. Increased reliance on multinational formations, backed by credible and rapidly deployable reinforcing units from the United States, will form the basis of our regional security arrangements. In those regions where the U.S. does not have formal alliances, the Army will continue to enhance relationships through combined exercises, army-to-army contacts, and the development of infrastructure required to support a coalition campaign. We will continue to train and develop our leaders to interact with joint and multinational staffs.

2. Versatile: Tomorrow's Army must be able to respond across the continuum of military operations, while drawing from a smaller pool of forces.

The Army will operate in several environments, perhaps simultaneously, and must maintain forces to operate across the continuum of military operations. Versatility means the Army must be able to respond to multiple

contingencies simultaneously across the

continuum, possess a forcible entry capability, and be able to conduct sustained land operations with a mix of forces (armored, light, special operations and sustainment forces, supported by sufficient airlift and sealift). Forward presence provides unambiguous deterrence where our vital interests are most at risk. Army forces also will be engaged in nationally-directed peacetime activities overseas to protect basic human rights and democratic institutions and will promote economic and political stability as insurance policies against conflict. As the potential for conflict escalates, the Army will be prepared to deploy its forces rapidly to respond and, if necessary, to prosecute midand high-intensity conflict anywhere in the world. Our ability to counter a major challenge to U.S. interests lies in our forward presence, contingency and reserve component forces, our commitment to engage traditional and nontraditional threats, and the vitality of our reconstituted forces.

3. Deployable: Tomorrow's Army must have the ability to project combat power rapidly from the continental United States to locations where U.S. interests are threatened.

America's Army will organize tailorable force packages to accommodate land combat requirements in numerous contingency plans. The limiting factor in our ability to deploy these forces is strategic lift. The Army's ability to deploy rapidly, as prescribed in the evolving National Military Strategy, is linked to Navy and Air Force procurement of strategic lift. Accordingly, we will continue to work with Congress and our sister services to seek ways to improve our ability to project power around the world. Deployability is also a product of the Army's ability to preposition equipment on land and sea, establish military-related infrastructure in regions with the greatest chance of conflict, design forces and equipment that are easily transportable, and train these forces in deployment.

4. Expansible: Tomorrow's Army must be

able to constitute new forces rapidly in response to a deterioration of the international order or the emergence of a major threat to U.S. interests.

Because of active force reductions, timely

mobilization of reserve forces will provide the means to sustain a prolonged or major conflict. The Army will generate its forces to respond rapidly to crises with a mix of highly trained and ready active and reserve components. Our smaller force will require reserve participation for crucial combat support and combat

service support across the continuum of military operations, from nation assistance to global war. As the level of conflict escalates National Guard combat brigades will join their associated active divisions on a time-phased basis. Fully structured National Guard divisions will provide follow-on reinforcement for protracted or expanded conflicts. These divisions will be ready after a period of mobilization and training. Longer warning times to counter a major threat will allow the Army time to reconstitute its late-deploying divisions, which will bridge the gap between follow-on divisions and entirely new divisions reconstituted during total mobilization.

5. Capable of

Decisive Victory:

Tomorrow's Army must not lose the ability to defeat all adversaries through a Total Force effort. Our forces must be of the highest quality, able to rapidly deploy, fight, sustain themselves, and win whenever deployed.

The Army will improve its operational

effectiveness through continued, balanced emphasis on the six imperatives that are key to the Army's future success:

✔Quality soldiers who are superbly trained, motivated and challenged with tough, realistic training exercises. We will provide them with attractive pay and benefits, offer them career opportunities, and provide for their families. Moreover, we will recruit and retain the best America has to offer by maintaining recruiting and retention incentives that have made our allvolunteer force the best in the world.

✔ Competent Leaders who are clear in their vision of the future and fully developed in our professional schools and operational assignments. We will teach them their craft in Army units, joint environments and multinational staffs, and will continue to promote self-development programs that will round out their abilities.

✔Challenging training focused on the realism of the Combat Training Centers and Battle Command Training Program and oriented toward joint operations and contingency missions. Active and reserve forces training will be fully integrated and conducted to maximize new technology and simulation techniques.

✔Modern Equipment, obtained by procuring those systems that provide the greatest lethality, continuing research and development to improve our weapons systems, and leveraging microchip technology to produce smaller, lighter and more modular systems. We will attempt to provide our soldiers with a technology edge over any future enemy. Retaining the edge means promoting and funding programs like the Comanche, Amored Systems Modernization, Deep Attack Systems, AntiArmor Weapons Systems, the Forward Area Air Defense System, as well as those designed to improve command and control on the battlefield. The goal of Army modemization is to equip the American soldier with world-class equipment in sufficient quantity and in the shortest possible time, consistent with sound business practices and within resource constraints.

✔A Force Mix that has been designed carefully to preserve essential warfighting capabilities in rapid deployment units (mostly active) and to allow time for mobilization and training for follow-on forces (mostly reserve) through newly reconstituted units during successive mobilization.

✔ Effective doctrine that accommodates modern joint and coalition, maneuver-oriented, high-tempo and high-technology warfare. Our methods must deny the enemy the ability to hide, or to seize the initiative once conflict begins.

STRATEGIC FORCE

AMERICA'S ARMY

We cannot face the future simply by walking into the past backwards.

President Dwight
Eisenhower

The simple fact is this: When it comes to national security, America can never afford to fail or fall short.

President George Bush

STRATEGIC VISION

CONCLUSION

These are exciting and challenging times to be a soldier or Army civilian. Today, tomorrow and into the next century, our Nation expects America's Army to be ready for the next crisis in a manner consistent with our past successes. The Army's challenge will be to respond to a broad spectrum of possible contingencies amidst the uncertainty of funding constraints and a changing world. We will be ready to answer that call.

As stewards of our Nation's resources, we must maintain clarity of purpose and continue to improve the management of our internal operations. We are reviewing our structure and internal procedures from top to bottom, adopting new techniques and practices, and continuing to improve our ability to apply taxpayer dollars judiciously to the defense of the Nation.

As America's Army, we will maintain the

uncompromising standards we have established over nearly a generation; we are evolving our warfighting doctrine to ensure that we maintain our edge into the next century; we will continue an aggressive program of professional development throughout the Total Force; and with the Base Force -- the right combination of active and reserve components and force capabilities for the future strategic environment -- we will maintain a trained and ready force prudently tailored but sufficiently robust to meet the Nation's requirements.

The Army of tomorrow will be more than a smaller version of the Cold War Army. Although it will decrease in size, it will retain the capabilities that made it successful in Desert Storm. The Army will remain a trained and ready force, capable of decisive victory. It will continue to operate across the continuum of military operations and will continue to reflect U.S. will and commitment at home and abroad. Just as they have for two centuries, the men and women in America's Army will be there to answer the call when they are needed.