Future Kill Chains: Harnessing Emerging Technology to Improve Marine Corps Warfighting

Abstract

The past eighteen years of counterterrorism and counter-insurgency operations have created a kill chain that is effective in low-intensity conflicts where the US Military enjoys a strategic overmatch against our adversaries. However, in a high-intensity, great power conflict against a peer competitor, this current paradigm would likely be too fragile and slow. Success in deterring or fighting a peer competitor in the INDOPACOM region will hinge upon forward-positioned commanders acting in a denied and degraded environment while rapidly employing fires in support of an overall naval campaign. To achieve this vision, technological improvements will be needed to facilitate the decentralized and rapid employment of the kill-chain cycle. Improvements must be made to each portion of the targeting cycle as well as our communications architecture to ensure the Marine Corps is prepared to make an impactful contribution to the overarching naval strategy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 24, 2021
Accession Number
AD1178021

Entities

People

  • Jesse T Knight

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Cyber
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Antisubmarine Aircraft
  • Arms Control
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Command And Control
  • Control Systems
  • Cross Domain
  • Damage Assessment
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Employment
  • Guidance
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Navies (Foreign)
  • New York
  • Psychology
  • Security
  • South China Sea
  • United States
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare
  • Weapon Systems

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  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.