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The Army's Vision and Strategy
Our mission, our purpose remains constant.
To deploy, fight and win our nation’s wars by providing ready, prompt and sustained land dominance by Army forces across the full spectrum of conflict as part of the joint force.
The Army mission is vital to the Nation because we are the service capable of defeating enemy ground forces and indefinitely seizing and controlling those things an adversary prizes most – its land, its resources and its population.
THE ARMY OF 2030
As the Army comes out of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and refocuses on the pacing challenge of China and the acute threat posed by Russia, Army leaders are directing the most significant reorganization and technical innovation since the end of the Cold War — ensuring our adversaries cannot outrange or outpace us on traditional battlefields, or the new frontiers of space and cyberspace.
The world is changing, and the Army is changing with it .
Our people are the centerpiece of the Army.
Chief of staff of the army , general james c. mcconville.
View the Army Senior Leader's Action Plan to Prioritize People and Teams
Learn More: People First
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Strategic Documents
The Army Strategy
Readiness, modernization and reform.
The Army Strategy articulates how the Total Army achieves its objectives defined by the Army Vision and fulfills its Title 10 duties. In support of the National Defense Strategy, the Army Strategy describes how the Army will build a more lethal force to retain overmatch in order to deter, and defeat if necessary, all potential adversaries.
READ MORE: STAND-TO! - The Army Strategy
READ MORE: Challenges at many levels - Holistic view of readiness allows Army to meet new demands (Feb. 25, 2020)
Download: The Army Strategy (PDF)
The Army People Strategy
Managing our most important asset.
The Army People Strategy is the roadmap the U.S. Army will use to build a twenty-first century talent-based personnel management system, reform essential quality of life programs and build cohesive teams that are ready, professional, diverse and integrated for the Joint Force. The Total Army will acquire, develop, employ and retain the diversity of Soldier and Civilian talent needed to achieve Total Army readiness.
LEARN MORE: Army People Strategy
READ MORE: STAND-TO! - The Army People Strategy
Download: The Army People Strategy (PDF)
Download: The Army People Strategy - Diversity, Inclusion Annex (PDF)
Download: SHARP - Prevention - Annex to APS (PDF)
The Army Modernization Strategy
Investing in the future.
The Army Modernization Strategy (AMS) describes how the Total Army — Regular Army, National Guard, Army Reserve, and Army Civilians — will transform into a multi-domain force by 2035, meet its enduring responsibility as part of the Joint Force to provide for the defense of the United States, and retain its position as the globally dominant land power. AMS is the Army's plan to deliver a Multi-Domain Operations capable force and explains how the Army will operationalize the concept.
READ MORE: STAND-TO! - 2019 Army Modernization Strategy
Download: Army Modernization Strategy (PDF)
Download: Army Digital Transformation Strategy
The Army Medical Modernization Strategy
Transforming and modernizing the army health system.
The Army Medical Modernization Strategy (AMMS) articulates how the Army Health System will modernize to provide highly adaptive and effective health care on and off future battlefields. AMMS will improve future medical preparedness, processes and resources by informing new formations, doctrine, organizations and training; materiel development, equipment modernization and procurement, and medical integration with signature modernization efforts; and leader development, education, recruiting, retention and talent management. AMMS fully aligns with and supports the Army Modernization Strategy , and will guide the requirements, priorities and direction of medical modernization efforts critical to enabling future force readiness.
Download: Army Medical Modernization Strategy (PDF)
The Army Arctic Strategy
Regaining arctic dominance.
The Army Arctic Strategy supports the 2019 DoD Arctic Strategy and lays out how the Army will generate, train, organize and equip the force to partner with Arctic allies and secure the national interests. The Total Army strategy adapts how the Army executes extended, multi-domain operations in extreme conditions to support the joint warfighter, which demonstrates the Army’s resolve to securing national interests in the region.
READ MORE: STAND-TO! - The Army Arctic Strategy
Download: Army Arctic Strategy (PDF)
The Army Climate Strategy
Enhancing army readiness, resiliency and capabilities.
The Army Climate Strategy is the framework for a long-term endeavor to operationalize climate adaptation and mitigation across the Army. The strategy drives actions to enhance readiness, resiliency and capabilities of the force. By implementing the lines of effort outlined in the climate strategy, the Army will achieve the goals of a resilient and sustainable land force able to operate in all domains with effective adaptation and mitigation measures against climate change, consistent with Army modernization efforts.
READ MORE: STAND-TO! - The Army Climate Strategy
Download: Army Climate Strategy (PDF)
Download: Army Climate Strategy Implementation Plan (PDF)
The Army Installations Strategy
Supporting the army in multiple domains.
The U.S. Army Installations Strategy is the first strategy to identify the need for modernized, resilient and sustainable installations. This strategy describes how installations will modernize to support the Multi-Domain Operations Ready Force over the next 15+ years.
READ MORE: STAND-TO! - The Army Installations Strategy
READ MORE: Army installations set to modernize through 2035 (Dec. 16, 2020)
Download: Army Installations Strategy (PDF)
Army Multi-Domain Transformation
Ready to win in competition and conflict.
The Army's Multi-Domain transformation will set the conditions for the Joint Force to fight and win integrated campaigns necessary to defeat state actors. By 2035, the Army will enable the Joint Force to maneuver and prevail from competition through conflict with a calibrated force posture of multi-domain capabilities that provide overmatch through speed and range at the point of need.
Army formations and capabilities will provide the necessary speed, range, convergence, and decision dominance required for overmatch in a faster-paced, distributed, and complex operating environment.
Download: Multi-Domain Transformation Paper (PDF)
Download: The Army in Military Competition (PDF)
Quality of Life Initiatives
Committed to improving the army family.
Recognizing that our Soldiers, Civilians and families should have the best quality of life possible, the Army is reviewing the full range of its care, support, and enrichment programs, with an initial focus upon: housing and barracks, healthcare, childcare, spouse employment and permanent change of station moves.
LEARN MORE: U.S. Army Quality of Life
READ MORE: New efforts aim to improve 'quality of service' for Soldiers, Families (Oct. 16, 2019)
STAND-TO! Editions
- Army Housing Management Career Program
- Soldier and Family Readiness Groups
- Total Army Sponsorship Program
- U.S. Army Overseas Service: Tour Length Policy Revision
- Home-Based Businesses
- Privatized Army Housing: Residential Communities Initiative
- Army Spouse State Licensure and Certification Costs Reimbursement
- Permanent Change of Station Move
The Army Data Plan
Transforming our people, processes, technology and governance.
The Army Data Plan, aligned to the Army Vision, sets forth guiding principles, goals and objectives, imperatives, and data management structures to transform how the Army manages, analyzes, and utilizes data to enable data-driven decisions across its enterprise, and with partners, through a resilient, secure hybrid cloud solution.
READ MORE: STAND-TO! - Army Data Plan
Synchronizing force employment and modernization
The Regionally Aligned Readiness and Modernization Model, or ReARMM, aims to balance the operational tempo of our forces and provide leaders with additional time to invest in their people. ReARMM integrates and synchronizes the Army across all Army components — Regular Army, Resource Component and Army National Guard — providing predictability to the force regarding training, modernization and readiness.
READ MORE: STAND-TO! - Regionally Aligned Readiness and Modernization Model
READ MORE: ReARMM to help stabilize training, modernization, mission requirements (Oct. 20, 2020)
Army Posture Statement
Supporting the national defense strategy.
The Army Posture Statement is the Secretary of the Army and the Chief of Staff of the Army's written testimony to Congress on the state of the U.S. Army. The statement describes where the Army is and what the Army has done over the last year to support the National Defense Strategy .
This unclassified summary outlines the Army’s annual accomplishments, initiatives, and priorities, based on the Army Vision and Army Strategy. It also explains the Army’s budgetary needs for maintaining its strategic priorities in the upcoming fiscal year.
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DoD Transmits 2022 National Defense Strategy
The Department of Defense transmitted the classified 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS) to Congress today.
The classified NDS sets out how the Department of Defense will contribute to advancing and safeguarding vital U.S. national interests – protecting the American people, expanding America’s prosperity, and realizing and defending our democratic values.
The NDS is the capstone strategic guidance document for the Department of Defense. It translates national security priorities into guidance for military planning and activities. The 2022 NDS is consistent with the President’s Interim National Security Strategic Guidance, released in March 2021.
An unclassified version of the NDS will be forthcoming and sequenced with the release of the unclassified National Security Strategy.
Click for a fact sheet about the 2022 NDS .
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