In 2018, the Army announced it was converting a Stryker Brigade Combat Team to an ABCT. That means more than adding new equipment, but also training and adjusting tactics. Those ABCTs on rotations to Korea, Europe and the Middle East, are also in the midst of major modernization. In 2020, McConville said he worried about ops tempo in general, but he specifically pointed to air defense artillery and ABCTs as his top concerns. While high operational tempo within special operations is often at the top of the headlines, air defense and armored units have also been frequently tapped across the globe in recent years. Army, particularly the armored force, you’ve made the decision,” Coffman said. “Combined arms maneuver is how we will be decisive, how we will clear and hold land.”

“If you want to take land, if you want to hold land, if you want to clear land, you need the ground element,” Coffman said.

At the center of that maneuver, Coffman noted, is the armored force, providing mobile, protected, accurate, lethal fires in high volume.

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