[..]Our forward-deployed units in Europe and Korea in particular must be prepared to delay potential peer or near-peer aggressors, trading space for time in order to facilitate the rapid buildup of follow-on forces. Delaying operations, like all retrograde operations, are acutely challenging. They entail an array difficulties, including the likely degradation of mission command after the loss of key leaders and communications equipment. Sustainment of a force in retrograde is also particularly challenging, as forces will have to plan for cannibalization of vehicles, resupply on the move, and securing the movement of wounded personnel, all while in contact with an enemy seeking complete destruction of the formation.[..]
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[..] Students must become habitually ingrained with the need to dig individual and vehicle fighting positions immediately upon acknowledgment of a long halt. Camouflage—of soldiers, their weapons, and vehicles—using the surrounding terrain must be enforced by all leaders during all phases of the operation. Leaders must ensure all training exercises incorporate sufficient class IV supplies—construction materials—requiring subordinate units to construct tactical and protective obstacles in conjunction with the surrounding terrain to defeat numerically superior enemy forces in a given engagement area. [..]
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