AFP sees synchronized module, training vital for successful joint force ops

From the Philippine Information Agency (Jul 24): AFP sees synchronized module, training vital for successful joint force ops

Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) sees the cross-service collaboration among its three services as crucial for the success of the Joint Force Operating concept in the context of Maritime Strategy.

AFP Command and General Staff College Commandant Major General Herminigildo Aquino admitted during the first tri-service staff to staff talks of the Naval Education Training and Command; Air Education, Training, and Doctrine Command; and Army Training and Doctrine Command.

“This is a long aspired for arrangement… and I am elated to note that [you have] welcomed unity in terms of cross-service cooperation in all stages of training and education. Defending a country with an archipelagic configuration, with such expansive EEZ (exclusive economic zone), needs a maritime perspective, requiring close interaction of military forces in the sea, land, and aerospace environments,” he said.

“A Joint Force Operating concept in the context of Maritime strategy is in order, involving sea, air, and land operations. It will be the combination of maneuver and precision fires into small, agile combined arms teams that burrow into complex terrain to defect, identify and capture or kill the enemy with precision, discrimination, and an understanding of the second and third order consequences that may arise,” Aquino stressed.

Joint Warfare approach is the effective integration of thought and action at all levels of command to achieve the common goal that produces synergy in the conduct of operations.

“The sum of all combined capabilities, with the right force mix made to bear on a particular challenge, will surely be greater than the individual major service capability when applied singly,” he added.

“As our martial history has taught us, valor alone does not win battles or wars. Technological superiority over our adversaries is necessary, with the intensive training required to prepare our men and women for hybrid asymmetric wars. This is the first and fundamental step into achieving the goal of producing soldiers who will fight and win battles and campaigns for our republic—jointly,” the official ended.

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