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Issue 83, 4th Quarter 2016 Threat Assessment and Its Perils An Interview with Cecil D. Haney Commentary on JOINT FORCE QUARTERL Chinese Military Reforms Y ISSUE EIGHTY -THREE, 4 TH QUARTER 2016 Joint Force Quarterly Founded in 1993 • Vol. 83, 4th Quarter 2016 http://ndupress.ndu.edu Gen Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., USMC, Publisher MajGen Frederick M. Padilla, USMC, President, NDU Editor in Chief Col William T. Eliason, USAF (Ret.), Ph.D. Executive Editor Jeffrey D. Smotherman, Ph.D. Production Editor John J. Church, D.M.A. Internet Publications Editor Joanna E. Seich Book Review Editor Dr. Frank G. Hoffman Art Director Marco Marchegiani, U.S. Government Printing Office Advisory Committee COL Michael S. Bell, USA (Ret.), Ph.D./College of International Security Affairs; Brig Gen Christopher A. Coffelt, USAF/ Air War College; Col David J. Eskelund, USMC/Marine Corps War College; COL (P) Paul H. Fredenburgh III, USA/Dwight D. 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Bell); Marine with 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit surveys San Clemente Island in search of landing zone during Amphibious Squadron–Marine Expeditionary Unit Integration, prior to deployment to U.S. Pacific and U.S. Central Commands’ areas of operations, July 16, 2016 (U.S. Marine Corps/Robert B. Brown) About the Cover In this Issue U.S. Army 1st Lieutenant Kelly Elmlinger, Warrior Transition Battalion, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Dialogue swims preliminary race during 2014 2 From the Chairman Warrior Games at U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, September 30, 2014. More Forum than 200 wounded, ill, and injured 4 Executive Summary Servicemembers and veterans participated in the 2014 Warrior 6 Global Power Distribution and Games, an annual event featuring Warfighting in the 21st Century Paralympic-style competitions (U.S. By John R. 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By Joel Wuthnow Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL students participate in Surf Passage as part of first phase of SEAL training (U.S. Navy/Michael Russell) From the Chairman Strategic Challenges and Implications have previously written in this Joint Readiness responsiveness, flexibility, and resiliency column to share with you the areas One of my priorities is joint readi- is ensuring that our men and women I where I am devoting my time and ness, which, from my perspective, never enter a fair fight. focus: joint readiness, joint warfighting is an ongoing engagement with the capability, and the development of President and Secretary of Defense Strategic Challenges leaders for the future. I have also shared to provide timely and viable military Many of you have heard me talk about with you my thoughts regarding the options that, in the event of a crisis five strategic challenges: the four imperative for the Joint Force to remain or contingency, are responsive to the potential state competitors of Russia, focused on and responsive to the desired policy endstate objectives of the China, Iran, and North Korea, and the current National Command Authority. National Command Authority. I also nonstate challenge of violent extremist That responsiveness underpins healthy consider flexibility (transitioning from organizations. We colloquially refer to civil-military relations and is the hall- one crisis or contingency to another these five challenges as the 4+1. But mark of the Profession of Arms. I now across the range of military options) these challenges cannot be the only ones write to share with you how we are and resiliency (sustaining what the we plan against. I am humble about our channeling these priorities and profes- Joint Force is doing) as part of joint ability to predict the future, so I use the sional focus into execution. readiness. Underlining the principles of 4+1 as a planning construct. Bench- 2 Dialogue / From the Chairman JFQ 83, 4th Quarter 2016 marking the Joint Force against one of continue to advance their interests at the information on a routine basis so they these challenges or two of these state qualitative and quantitative expense of can have real-time ability to see the challenges simultaneously, along with our own. fight; to visualize in time and space the violent extremism, helps inform our The third implication, and to me one opportunities to seize the initiative; and assessment of the current inventory of of the most significant, is that we have a to better identify potential opportunity current joint capabilities and capacities. mandate to keep pace with the character costs. Over time, as we successfully help Looking at the trajectory of capability of war in the 21st century. While the the Secretary of Defense to see the Joint development in the context of the 4+1 nature of war—the violent clash of po- Force better, it will inform the assess- also informs priorities for joint capability litical will—has not changed, we should ment process to make recommendations development.