Asymmetric Warfare Group to shut down
The Army is shutting down it’s 15 year old Asymmetric Warfare Group, Armytimes reported.
The AWG mission supports every warfighting function, but with key contributions to developing situational understanding; analyzing cross-domain maneuver for large scale ground combat operations; supporting security force assistance; providing adaptive capabilities to the institutional army; enhancing realistic home station training.
MISSION:
The Asymmetric Warfare Group (AWG), headquartered in Fort Meade, Maryland, provides global operational advisory support to U.S. Army forces to rapidly transfer current threat based observations and solutions (TTPs) to tactical and operational Army commanders in order to defeat emerging asymmetric threats and enhance multi-domain effectiveness.
Our purpose-remains constant: To observe, assess, and integrate our observation back to the Army of friendly best practices and near-peer threat capabilities for increased analysis and coordination with our Army, allies and partners. Our operational advisors are globally aligned and deploy to complex operating environments to understand the current and emerging challenges to anticipate the character of future conflict. Our members are hand selected seasoned veterans that are developed through a vigorous training and selection process to ensure our individuals make relevant observations and analyses to transfer back to the tactical, and operational point of need in order to enhance the development and adaptation of our generating force.
KEY TASKS:
- Advise: Provide operational advisory support to Army formations across the range of military operations at the operational point of need.
- Scout: Inform the Army and identify capability gaps through global observation of the operational environment and emerging threats.
- Integrate: Develop, disseminate, demonstrate, and inform solutions in order to spark change
AWG is the only operational unit within TRADOC with the capability and force structure able to engage warfighter across the globe and rapidly disseminate gained observations and information back to the operational point of need in order to enhance Soldier survivability.
U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command was created on July 1st, 1973, under General William E. DePuy, who commanded a battalion in the 90th Infantry Division in World War II and led the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam.
Under General DePuy, TRADOC fundamentally transformed the Army into the best trained, equipped, led, and organized modern land power in the world. Today, TRADOC sustains its proud legacy of shaping the Army through four primary functions:
- We recruit and train Soldiers, and support unit training
- We develop adaptive leaders – both Soldier and Civilian
- We guide the Army through doctrine
- We shape the Army by building and integrating formations, capabilities, and materiel
Now at Fort Eustis, TRADOC executes its mission through five subordinate commands and centers:
- US Army Center of Military History
- US Army Combined Arms Center (Fort Leavenworth)
- US Army Center Initial Military Training (Fort Eustis)
- US Army Recruiting Command (Fort Knox)
- US Army Cadet Command (Fort Knox)
TRADOC also oversees 32 Army schools organized under 10 Centers of Excellence, each focused on a separate area of expertise within the Army (such as Maneuver and Signal). These centers train over 750,000 Soldiers and service members each year.