Research Report
KEY FINDINGS
■ e U.S. Army is developing a new generation of surface-to-surface res with very long ranges (500–2,000 km),
including cannons, missiles, and cruise missiles.
■ e Army will face the challenges of integrating these long-range res, both with its own shorter-range res and with
the very long-range res of other services, particularly as it lacks its own long-range intelligence, surveillance, and
reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities.
■ To address these challenges, the Army is proposing a new organization called a eater Fires Command (TFC).
■ e Army is also exploring how TFCs could apply articial intelligence (AI) techniques to improve and accelerate the
employment and support of very long-range systems.
■ e number and type of weapons the Army elds will inuence a TFC’s role in relation to the other services.
■ TFCs would face dierent deployment and employment challenges in the European Command (EUCOM) and Indo-
Pacic Command (INDOPACOM) theaters.
■ TFCs should be integrated with the capabilities of the other services to the greatest extent possible.
■ A TFC should coordinate surface-to-surface res and other eects for combined joint force land component com-
manders (JFLCCs) and the joint force commander (JFC) and could provide very long-range Army res to help meet
joint force objectives.
JOHN GORDON IV, JOHN MATSUMURA
Army Theater Fires Command
Integration and Control of Very Long-Range
Army Fires
ARROYO CENTER
