Preparing for the Hybrid Threat
by John Little on 5/11/2009American Forces Press service takes a look at the National Training Center:
Army Col. Ted Martin, chief of NTC’s operations group, said looking ahead to the next fight – one for which the Army’s Combined Center and Training and Doctrine Command are now developing doctrine – will require a new level of flexibility at NTC.
Martin’s team is instrumental in developing the NTC training scenarios, and its observer-controllers monitor the training and provide after-action reviews.
“No one has experienced the hybrid threat or knows exactly what it looks like, so we have to begin by training ourselves,” he said.
Martin described what he believes the hybrid threat will look like. “It is not the Russian Army coming across the East German-West German border. That is gone,” he said.
It could look more like the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War or the 2008 Russia-Georgia conflict. “You are going to be confronted by an irregular force, criminals, terrorists and some conventional capability,” Martin predicted.
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