AUGUST 2017 Please reference below strategic themes and messages for the month of August 2017; individual topics may be selected as a hyperlink. ARMY TOP LINE MESSAGES 1. Top Line Messages (click here) FOUNDATIONAL THEMES 2. Enduring Value of Army Forces (click here) 3. Globally Engaged Army (click here) 4. Multi-Domain Battle (click here) 5. Modernization: Equipping for 21st Century Warfare (click here) 6. Resourcing the Army (click here) 7. Meet Your Army (click here) CURRENT THEMES OF NOTE AND FOCUS 8. Installation Readiness (click here) 9. Homeland Defense (click here) MONTHLY OBSERVANCES 10. August – Women’s Equality Day (click here) 11. September – National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month (click here) 12. September – Gold Star Mother’s and Family’s Day (click here) 13. September – National Hispanic Heritage Month (click here) These and all other OCPA products may be found on the Army Public Affairs Portal (PA Portal): https://army.deps.mil/army/cmds/ocpa/paportal/. Be sure to select your Email CAC certificate when prompted. UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY ARMY TOP LINE MESSAGES Army forces must possess the capabilities and be prepared to fight across multiple domains and through contested areas, to deter potential adversaries, and should deterrence fail, rapidly defeat them. The Army has approximately 181.9K Soldiers currently supporting combatant commanders in 140 countries. In times of war, the Army provides land forces that fight and win as part of the Joint Force. In times of national crises, Army forces provide response and recovery assistance to federal, state, and local governments at home and abroad. The U.S. Army is dedicated to leveraging the strength of its diverse force and understands that diversity makes our Army stronger and more capable. Return to Top READINESS | FUTURE ARMY | CARE OF SOLDIERS ENDURING VALUE OF ARMY FORCES "Ground forces bring something to the table that the others cannot: the immediacy and continuous nature of their presence...ground forces are far more difficult for an adversary to discount.“ -Dr. Kathleen H. Hicks, Center for Strategic and International Studies TOP LINE MESSAGES STRATEGIC THEME: READINESS OPR: TRADOC DATE: 1 AUGUST 2017 • The Army’s foremost responsibility is to deliver ready, trained, and equipped forces to meet the operational demands put before it. • In times of war, the Army provides land forces that fight and win as part of the Joint Force. In times of national crises, Army forces provide response and recovery assistance to federal, state, and local governments at home and abroad. • Army forces are essential to protect our nation and secure our vital interests against determined, elusive, and capable enemies. SUMMARY Army forces are essential to protect our nation and secure our vital interests against determined, elusive, and capable enemies. TALKING POINTS Army forces are essential to Army Forces are essential to the Our Army must be ready National security because: Joint Force because: because: • Army forces prevent conflict, • Army forces provide the Joint • We live in a changing, more dangerous world shape security environments, Force with multiple options, and conflicts in the future, like those in the past, and win wars by defeating operate across multiple domains, will be resolved on land. enemies and adversaries. and present enemies with multiple • The location, scale, and duration of future dilemmas. • Army forces provide critical conflicts are impossible to predict. support to U.S. civil authorities • Army forces integrate and • The U.S. Army organizes, trains, and equips and defend the homeland. synchronize the efforts of multiple forces for prompt and sustained combat. partners. • Army forces engage regionally • U.S. defense strategy requires Army forces to ensure interoperability, build • Army forces provide Joint Force capable of operating in sufficient scale and for relationships, enhance commanders the ability to compel ample duration for responding to and resolving situational awareness, assure outcomes without the cooperation crises. partners, and deter adversaries. of the enemy. • Army forces demonstrate U.S. • Army forces provide foundational resolve and commitment capabilities to the Joint Force such as communications, • Army forces create sustainable intelligence, missile defense, and “You may fly over a land forever; you political outcomes. logistics. may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life -but If you desire to defend "For at least the past three millennia, only land power has provided it, protect it, and keep it for civilization, decisive strategic results in any conflict. The explanation is simple. you must do this on the ground, the way Decisive results are gained only if one side is able to direct the the Roman Legions did -by putting your actions or change the attitudes of its opponent." soldiers in the mud.” – Dr. Jim Lacey, Professor of Strategic Studies, Marine Corps – T.R. Fehrenbach, from his book, War College “This Kind of War” DIGITAL & SOCIAL MEDIA RESOURCES AUDIENCES: • Webpage: http://tradocnews.org; www.arcic.army.mil National Capital Region, Internal • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/usarmytradoc Army, Community/Business/Key • Facebook: www.facebook.com/USArmyTRADOC; www.facebook.com/AdaptingtheArmy Influencers, American Adults • Twitter: @TRADOC, @AdaptingTheArmy • Hashtag: #USARMY • STAND-TO! https://www.army.mil/standto/archive_2016-08-30 POC: Mr. Ron Watrous, TRADOC Public Affairs Plans, Phone: (757) 501-5869, Email: [email protected] Return to Top UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY GLOBALLY ENGAGED ARMY (1 OF 3) “Our country is still at war in Afghanistan, and our troops are fighting against ISIS and other terrorist groups in the Middle East and elsewhere... Our armed forces in this world must remain the best-led, the best-equipped and the most lethal in the world.” – Secretary of Defense James Mattis TOP LINE MESSAGES STRATEGIC THEME: READINESS OPR: DAMO-ODO DATE: 1 AUGUST 2017 • The complexity of global security threats continues to increase. The Army sources 46% of demand for Joint Forces globally in FY17, and demand is projected to increase in FY18. • The Army has approximately 181.9K Soldiers currently supporting combatant commanders in 140 countries. • With the FY18 budget request the Army will be able to meet current global obligations, while we invest in capabilities for future challenges. SUMMARY The Army is globally engaged supporting combatant command missions. The Army has over 181.9K Soldiers committed in 140 countries. The Army’s forward presence and stationing builds partner capacity, assures our Allies, and deters aggressors. TALKING POINTS ARMY OPERATIONS: • Army forces in AFRICOM, with • Army forces in EUCOM stand ready to • Army forces in SOUTHCOM conduct interagency and international partners, preserve strategic partnerships, develop security cooperation and respond to build defense capabilities, respond to partner capacity, counter transnational contingencies as part of a whole-of- crisis, and deter/defeat transnational threats, and support the collective government approach in conjunction threats in order to advance U.S. national security of the NATO alliance by rotating with partner forces to strengthen interests and promote regional security, a BDE from CONUS to the AO to work regional security and counter stability, and prosperity. Army forces with partners. transnational threats in defense of the support local forces in Somalia to • Army forces in NORTHCOM conduct homeland. counter Al-Shabaab. homeland defense, civil support • U.S. Army Cyber (ARCYBER) has the • Army forces in CENTCOM are operations, and theater security authority to gather resources to supporting the defeating ISIS and al- cooperation activities. organize, develop, and employ cyber Qaeda in Syria and Iraq, denying enemy • Army forces in PACOM participate in capabilities in support of the Army and safe havens in Afghanistan, disrupting exercises and operations that expand the Joint Force. al-Qaeda in Yemen, deterring Iran, and the capacity and capability of our ARMY EXERCISES: improving relationships, access, and longtime Allies in the region. partner capacity across the region. • USAREUR – 30AUG-22SEP, Combined Resolve IX is a U.S. European Command, U.S. Army Europe-led annual exercise taking place in Poland in the fall of 2017. • USARPAC – 21-31 AUG, Garuda Shield is a U.S. Army, Pacific (USARPAC) sponsored exercise conducted as part of Pacific Pathways and held in Indonesia to enhance country-to-country military relationships and will include a series of bilateral military partnership and training events on peace support operations. AUDIENCES: POC: National Capital Region, Internal Army, LTC Ryker Horn Community/Business/Key Influencers Contingency Operations Division, DAMO-ODO, HQDA, G-3/5/7, (703) 695-2315 or [email protected] DIGITAL & SOCIAL MEDIA RESOURCES • STAND-TO!: https://www.army.mil/standto/2016-06-20 • #USARMY Return to Top Hashtag: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY GLOBALLY ENGAGED ARMY (2 OF 3) SECDEF Ordered Operational Support of Combatant Commands PACOM NORTHCOM GRF EUCOM CENTCOM (-) 3 3 29 IBCT (-) 2 1 3 (-) Soldiers: 39 IBCT 1 2,390 13,470 9,370 2 (-) 2 1 Soldiers: 15,860 45 IBCT 3 4 2 1 26,180 7,970 1 64,250 5,140 2 Soldiers: 34,150 Soldiers: 69,390 6,340 34,110 SOUTHCOM SECDEF Named Operations Soldiers: 40,450 Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR - Iraq) AFRICOM Operation Freedom’s Sentinel (OFS - Afghanistan) Operation Octave Shield/New Normal (ONN - Central Africa) BOG/Dwell Operation Spartan Shield (OSS - Kuwait) (-) 39 IBCT Operation Joint Guardian (OJG - Kosovo) DIV: ~1:1 (-) Operation Enduring Freedom-Horn of Africa (OEF HOA - Djibouti) 1,730 1,970 1 39 IBCT BCT: <1:2 Operation Noble Eagle (ONE - D.C.) CAB: <1:2 Operation Juniper Shield (OJS – AFRICOM Counter Boko Haram) Soldiers: 3,700 1,540 7,430 Patriot: <1:2 Operation Juniper Micron (OJM – Africa – Various locations) Soldiers: 8,970 THAAD: ~1:2 Operation Echo Casement (OEC – Central African Republic) FORSCOM (SERVICE RETAINED) The Army has approximately 181.9K Soldiers currently supporting combatant commanders in 140 countries.