{"id":27629,"date":"2023-09-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=27629"},"modified":"2023-09-16T06:40:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T06:40:47","slug":"ready-to-compete-fight-win-amc-pacaf-afsoc-commanders-address-afa-attendees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=27629","title":{"rendered":"Ready to compete, fight, win: AMC, PACAF, AFSOC commanders address AFA attendees"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AFNS) — \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gen. Mike Minihan<\/strong><\/a>, commander of Air Mobility Command<\/strong><\/a>, participated in a panel titled, \u201cReady to Compete, Fight, and Win in the Indo-Pacific\u201d with Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach<\/strong><\/a>, Pacific Air Forces<\/strong><\/a> commander, and Lt. Gen. Tony Bauernfeind<\/strong><\/a>, commander of Air Force Special Operations Command<\/strong><\/a>, Sept. 13 at the Air and Space Forces Association Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor.<\/p>\n

The AFA panel was moderated by Gen. (Ret.) Terrence \u201cShags\u201d O\u2019Shaughnessy<\/strong><\/a>, former commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command<\/a><\/strong> and the United States Northern Command<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Since Minihan delivered the Mobility Manifesto<\/a><\/strong> last year, the command aggressively attacked the two problem statements he identified: The joint force is not ready to fight and win inside the First Island Chain, and the joint force isn’t as ready, integrated or agile as they think they are.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring Mobility Guardian<\/a><\/strong>, we received numerous insights into our strengths and improvement areas,\u201d Minihan said. \u201cWe intentionally drove MG23 to a place where all the loose ends were not cleaned up. We strained ourselves, not trained ourselves.\u201d
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Minihan said that it became evident early in the exercise that there were three bins of concerns. He detailed the need to solidify command relationships to enable mission execution, invest in command-and-control connectivity and procedures to manage mission execution, and codify the fundamentals across the command to ensure it can \u201cexplode into theater\u201d to meet combatant commanders\u2019 requirements.<\/p>\n

While Minihan is proud of the significant strides the command has made within a year\u2014between the retrograde in Afghanistan, the evacuation of Kabul, support to Ukraine, the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, and planning and executing exercise Mobility Guardian 2023\u2014he emphasized there are more improvements ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll never admit to being ready enough, integrated enough, and agile enough\u2026We have an incredible amount of work to do here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Looking to the future, Minihan said there is a need for better connectivity within the mobility fleet, because connectivity drives joint force lethality. Investing in C2 connectivity will ensure mission execution and create expedited movement into theater.<\/p>\n

When asked what the command would need in order to implement these changes, Minihan noted that resources go to the trusted and prepared, and AMC aims to be both.<\/p>\n

He outlined his goal to increase connectivity among the Mobility fleet from 3% to 25% by fiscal year 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis would be a significant advancement and make an enormous impact on the battlefield instantly,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

Despite the gaps identified during MG23, Minihan asserted that forces are more integrated after Mobility Guardian.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can confidently say we are ready to fight and win inside the First Island Chain, and the Joint force is more ready, more integrated and more agile than it was a year ago,\u201d Minihan said. \u201cIf this goes down in the Pacific theatre, AMC will be the most relied-upon force in the history of warfare.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Each commander stated they will continue to leverage their unique capabilities so their Airmen and joint partners are prepared to execute Agile Combat Employment in the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AFNS) — \u00a0 Gen. Mike Minihan, commander of Air Mobility Command, participated in a panel titled, \u201cReady to Compete, Fight, and Win in the Indo-Pacific\u201d with Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, Pacific Air Forces commander, and Lt. Gen. Tony Bauernfeind, commander of Air Force Special Operations Command, Sept. 13 at the Air and Space […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27632,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27629\/revisions\/27632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}