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The nature of modern warfare demands that we fight as a joint team. This was important yesterday, it is essential today, and it will be imperative tomorrow Joint Vision 2010 provides an operationally based template for the evolution of the Armed Forces for a challenging and uncertain future. It must become a benchmark for Service and unified command visions.
As we move toward the 21st century, the road ahead is filled with diverse challenges for our Nation and, in particular, its Armed Forces. The period leading up to the year 2010, especially, will be an era of significant and dynamic change, marked by potential new roles, rapid technological advances, and constrained resources. In July 1996, as a first step in preparing our Armed Forces to meet the challenges of this uncertain period ahead, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff issued Joint Vision (IV) 2010, a concept that centered on future joint warfighting. His vision, developed in concert with the Joint Chiefs and the unified commanders, lays the foundation of how joint forces will operate in 2010. Embodied in this new "blueprint" for the future are new operational concepts, enabled by technological innovation and information superiority, by which our joint forces will be able to successfully accomplish any mission. These new concepts will see application across the full range of military operations from war at the highest intensity levels to humanitarian assistance.
JV 2010 represents a pathway to the future and serves as a vehicle for providing common direction for the Services in enhancing the core capabilities that they will contribute to the joint fight. As JV 2010 may result in profound change within each of the Services over the next decade, a report on ongoing and future activities connected with JV 2010 may be useful in understanding the process of change initiated by the Chairman's vision. This report will address four areas: the key features of JV 2010; the long-term implementation process to be pursued to bring about new 2010 capabilities; the development of the Concept for Future Joint Operations (CFJO); and JV 2010's influence on the Corps.
Key Features of JV 2010
JV 2010 presents a view of joint warfighting in the early part of the 21st century. It posits that...