The 20 Army Warfighting Challenges (ND)

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The global strategic environment continues to present the US with increasingly complex threats and opportunities. Although all of the 20 Army Warfighting Challenges (AWfC) provide enduring first order problems, only the challenge to integrate joint, inter-organizational, and multinational (JIM) partner capabilities to ensure unity of effort and mission accomplishment (AWfC #14) nests directly with the top priorities of our current national and defense strategies. The 2015 National Security Strategy (NSS), the 2015 National Defense Strategy (NDS), and the Army Operating Concept (AOC) collectively agree that the United States cannot solve strategic problems alone. All of these documents discuss, in their opening paragraphs, the importance

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