ALLIED RAPID REACTION CORPS ALLIED RAPID REACTION CORPS Ready for Today - Evolving for Tomorrow Journal 2019 Journal 2019 FOREWORD Welcome to the 2019 ARRC Journal. 2018, with its focus on ALLIED RAPID the Corps Deep Battle, was the second year in a five-year REACTION CORPS plan aimed at recalibrating the ARRC back to a warfighting Ready for Today - Evolving for Tomorrow role. This plan sits as part of the ARRC’s broader Capabilities, Development and Experimentation (CD&E) programme and is, in turn, nested within NATO’s pioneering work on adaptation and modernisation. The articles in this journal reflect elements of that work, as well as highlighting some wider, individual conceptual thinking. Further lessons will undoubtedly emerge in 2019 as we concentrate on Corps Rear Operations and as the ARRC works towards achieving Initial Operating Capability, following Exercise ARRCADE FUSION in November. I’m extremely grateful for the commitment and professionalism of those, from across our 23 Participating Nations, who’ve found the time to turn their thoughts into words. I commend these articles to you. Lieutenant General Tim Radford CB DSO OBE Commander, Allied Rapid Reaction Corps www.arrc.nato.int Allied Rapid Reaction Corps @HQARRC Allied Rapid Reaction Corps Allied Rapid Reaction Corps Readers are reminded that the contents of this Journal are protected by copyright. While they are free to use the ideas expressed in it, and may copy, distribute or publish the work or part of it, in any form, printed, electronic or otherwise, for non-commercial purposes without [email protected] further permission from the author, any such use must clearly credit the author, recognise their ownership of copyright, and clearly indicate the source. Readers are permitted to make copies, electronically or printed, for personal, academic and classroom use. Any commercial +44 (0)1452 718007 use must be negotiated directly with the author(s). 2 ALLIED RAPID REACTION CORPS CONTENTS Page Page 1. Everything that’s Necessary, Nothing that’s Not: 17. Utilising Culture as an Enabler to Achieve Reducing the Footprint of the Deployed Corps Tactical Actions that have Positive Strategic Effect Headquarters Lieutenant Colonel Per Mikkelsen, Danish Army 68 Major John Westwood, British Army and 18. Spectrum Management: How the ARRC should Captain Miles Cuff, British Army 4 plan for Spectrum use 2. On Core Captain Eric Copeland, United States Army 71 Major Charlie Sprake, British Army 7 19. Using Wireless Technologies to Enable Agility 3. Enabling NATO Surface-to-Surface Deep Fires in the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in High Intensity Warfighting – Developing New Captain Jonny Dale, British Army 74 Synergies at Corps and Theatre level Lieutenant Colonel Timothy Iddon, British Army 10 20. Exercise ARRCADE GLOBE: The Future for Geo Collaboration? 4. Centre of Gravity: How an Old Concept is Lieutenant Colonel Simon Finch, British Army Implemented Today Major George McCrea, British Army Colonel Alexandris Konstantinos, Hellenic Army 16 Staff Sergeant David Thomas, British Army and Sergeant Thomas Glister, British Army 76 5. Maritime Support to Deep Operations Lieutenant Scott Sabin, Royal Navy 28 21. The Sicily Campaign of 1943: Lessons for a Prospective Joint Task Force 6. Situational Awareness: A Poorly Understood Major Andrew Cox, British Army 79 Construct? Major Guy Cheesman, British Army 30 22. Operation HUSKY: Its Relevance for a Contemporary NATO Joint Task Force 7. The Allied Rapid Reaction Corps receives Headquarters accolade for its risk management process Major James Grant, British Army 81 Major Derek Thornton, United States Army 33 23. The Mosquito is Mightier than the Mortar: 8. The ARRC’s Ground Liaison Element on Lessons for Commanders on Force Exercise TRIDENT JUNCTURE 2018 Health Protection Colonel Richard Head, British Army 36 Colonel Jeremy Tuck, British Army and 9. Contractor Support to Non-Article 5 Crisis Major Glen Bullivant, British Army 84 Response Operations: The Wider Implications 24. The Spanish Road: Logistic Lessons from the Major Steve Barnard, British Army 39 Renaissance Applied to Modern Deployments 10. Logistics Functional Area Services for Planning Major Juan Ariza Gómez, Spanish Army 86 and Execution 25. Bridging the Security Gap: Stability Policing Major Chris Marsh, British Army 42 in a Non-Article 5 Environment 11. Operational-Level Capacity Building in Contact Captain Patrick Crossland, British Army 89 Major Tyler Kennedy, Canadian Army 48 26. Winning Trust and Cooperation: Utilising 12. The Information Manoeuvre Concept tailored Psychological, Cultural Theory and to the ARRC Interest-Based Negotiation Tactics to Captain Bogdan Ionescu, Romanian Army 51 Successfully Engage Non-Military Actors 13. The Kremlin’s Timeless Weapon: Ambiguity Major Neil Weddell, British Army 91 Captain Robert Atchison, British Army 53 27. How Medical Support on Operations is 14. The Nature of News and the Military Leader: changing and how the Government and A Primer Civilian Sectors are Evolving Lieutenant Colonel Adam Hallmark, Colonel Jeremy Tuck, British Army 94 United States Army 57 28. Strengthening the Alliance: Engagement with 15. Joint Visitors Bureau: Administration or Influence? Estonian Defence Forces Major Paul Collis-Smith, British Army 62 Lieutenant Colonel Mikk Pukk, Estonian Land Forces 96 16. Survive to Comment: Military Understanding of the Information Environment Major Chris Bell, British Army 65 ALLIED RAPID REACTION CORPS 3 ARRC JOURNAL EVERYTHING THAT’S NECESSARY, NOTHING THAT’S NOT: Reducing the Footprint of the Deployed Corps Headquarters Major John Westwood, British Army Captain Miles Cuff, British Army Exercise ARRCADE FUSION 2017 (AF17) experimented with the ‘Survive to Command’ concept, culminating in the endorsement of a Forward Command Post (Fwd CP). This year’s AF19 will see the ARRC experimenting with its Main CP as it attempts to ‘Survive to Control’. As the ‘engine room’ that drives Dispersal and concealment. The solutions to be shot down, it is hoped that operational staff work, the Main CP dispersal and concealment of the Main this article will be read with this in mind. must be located in theatre, under the CP across multiple cells is currently protection of theatre ballistic missile being investigated by the Command and A note of caution defence (TBMD), and out of reach of Control Working Group (C2WG) and will Many of the suggestions presented the enemy. However, the Main CP that not be examined further in this essay. here are intended to encourage thought deployed on AF17 has a physical and This essay seeks to outline the basic and discussion. In a multinational electromagnetic footprint that is distinct principles that should be used to reduce headquarters it is understood that and immediately identifiable as a corps the footprint of the Main CP and increase national sensitivities, the strength of headquarters. The only way to reconcile survivability. It will go on to propose the Alliance and manning priorities may these two factors is to reassess what the practical solutions, with real-world mean that the ARRC might not be able to Main CP is, how it operates and what its examples of how this can be applied in make the same efficiencies as a national essential outputs are. time for AF19. Ultimately, the aim is to headquarters. Survive to Control raise questions that stimulate deeper Basic Principles thought about the nature and operation The Concept. It is impossible to make of the headquarters. As all proposals The Method. To successfully reduce the Main CP invisible, so survival in are invitations to discussion rather than the size of the Main CP, we need to a modern battlespace is achieved by reduction, dispersal and concealment in plain sight amongst the noise of other headquarters, enemy and civilian activity. Not only does this reduce the probability of being seen, targeted and struck, it also reduces the impact of such a strike on essential operational outputs. Reduction. It is tempting to reduce the size of the Main CP by cutting positions in the deployed establishment or splitting personnel amongst a greater number of smaller work spaces. However, if the Survive to Control concept is to be innovative, as opposed to an iteration of the current status quo, the basic principles of the Main CP must be The ARRC deployed at RAF St Mawgan as a JTF HQ. Note that the living accommodations and cookhouse questioned. cover the same area as the headquarters working area. Additionally, no attempt has been made to disperse, camouflage or conceal its footprint. 4 ALLIED RAPID REACTION CORPS READY FOR TODAY – EVOLVING FOR TOMORROW understand why it exists, establish how it must operate to justify this existence, and, finally, what resources are needed to facilitate its operation. To try and reduce the ‘what’ without understanding the ‘how’ or ‘why’ will lead to a failure of tactical control, which is the essential purpose of the Main CP. Outputs (Why). The Main CP holds tactical control over the Corps, delivering essential functions that can only take place in the battlespace: Planning, sustainment, enabling and assessment. All activity within the Main CP must service these functions. Any activity not essential to these functions or could occur outside theatre should be reduced or eliminated. This should be extended to functions that are performed by higher or lower formations. Processes (How). The processes that drive the battle rhythm of the Main CP The UPDF planned and executed the deployment of a brigade to South Sudan using only maps, must be effective in the first instance. If whiteboards, notebooks and two mobile phones. a process does not deliver an essential function then it must be eliminated. Once these are technologically enabled, but to tents full of people staring at JCHAT unnecessary processes have been as processes have been adapted to or navigating SharePoint rather than removed, what remains must be refined meet the requirements of advancing adding value to the operational outputs until they are the most efficient way of technology, both effectiveness and of the headquarters.