Countering the Hybrid Threat: A Case for Further Development in Future US Marine Corps Artillery Programs

Abstract

If the US Marine Corps wants to continue winning Americas battles abroad, it must be able to mitigate future adversaries' integration of hybrid capabilities with indirect fires by increasing developments in indirect fire ammunition, the Extended Range Cannon Assembly (ERCA), and the Ground Combat Element (GCE) specific Unmanned Aerial System (UAS). The US Marine Corps must continue development in artillery programs to ensure its infantry units have the support required to enable battlefield success in a future hybrid environment. As potential adversaries, to include state and non-state actors, understand that fighting conventional wars against the US Marine Corps will ultimately result in failure, their only option is to imitate Russia's hybrid warfare strategy. As the operational environment continues to change, the US Marine Corps must stay flexible, focus on developing programs that will enable success, and further its innovative nature so as not to be surprised by the adversaries of the future.

Document Details

• Document Type: Technical Report
• Publication Date: Apr 06, 2016
• Accession Number: AD1176122

Entities

People

• Jeremy J. Colwell

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Aircrafts
• Ammunition
• Artillery
• Artillery Ammunition
• Assembly
• Cold War
• Combat Areas
• Contingency Operations (Military)
• Employment
• Global Positioning Systems
• Hybrid Threats
• Hybrid Warfare
• Indirect Fire
• Lessons Learned
• Marine Corps
• Military Organizations
• Military Tactics
• Multiple Launch Rocket System
• Training
• United States
• Universities
• Unmanned
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Warfare
• Weapons Effects

Readers

• Military Science
• Strategic Security Studies
• Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Autonomy - UAVs