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Joint Chiefs Chief: Military Must Fight 'Seabed to Cislunar Space
(MENAFN) The US military must move urgently to reshape its forces for combat in contested zones stretching from the ocean floor to the gravitational space between Earth and the Moon, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said Wednesday.
"Our task, my friends, is to adapt right now, so the Joint Force is prepared to fight, endure and win in global contested environments, from the seabed to cislunar space," Caine told attendees at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference in Maryland.
Emphasizing that "today's modern battlefield operates from the seabed to cislunar space," Caine said upcoming conflicts will shatter long-standing assumptions about uncontested supply lines, protected sanctuary zones and secure resupply routes. He cautioned that frontline units must operate under the assumption they will be "hunted by autonomous systems, jammed across the spectrum and tracked in real time."
"In the future fight, advantage will go to the side who can see first, who can understand first, decide first and act first," he said, calling on the joint force to field massed firepower through an agile, optimized "high-low mix of combat capabilities."
Caine's remarks came days after Air Force Secretary Troy Meink disclosed Monday that the Space Force operates on-orbit "space control weapons" designed to shield joint forces from hostile adversary actions — the first formal public confirmation of armed US platforms in orbit, coming amid escalating orbital rivalry with China and Russia and continued development of the "Golden Dome" missile defense system.
China condemned the US deployment, stating that Beijing opposes turning outer space into a "war zone" and calling on Washington to halt its orbital military buildup.
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty bars the placement of nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction in orbit, but it stops short of explicitly prohibiting conventional weapons in space.
Caine singled out digital autonomy as the single biggest force reshaping modern warfare, outpacing every other military technology.
"No factor is accelerating change as fast as artificial intelligence and advancing cyber capabilities," he said, adding that "AI is here now, and it's already changing the way militaries see, sense, decide and act."
As an example of how algorithmic integration is reshaping military operations, he pointed to an incident in June off the coast of Oman, where an AI-guided autonomous vessel rescued two US soldiers after their Apache attack helicopter crashed.
"Taken together, these examples from the Strait of Hormuz to the front lines in Ukraine show how quickly technology is changing the character of war," he said.
"Our task, my friends, is to adapt right now, so the Joint Force is prepared to fight, endure and win in global contested environments, from the seabed to cislunar space," Caine told attendees at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference in Maryland.
Emphasizing that "today's modern battlefield operates from the seabed to cislunar space," Caine said upcoming conflicts will shatter long-standing assumptions about uncontested supply lines, protected sanctuary zones and secure resupply routes. He cautioned that frontline units must operate under the assumption they will be "hunted by autonomous systems, jammed across the spectrum and tracked in real time."
"In the future fight, advantage will go to the side who can see first, who can understand first, decide first and act first," he said, calling on the joint force to field massed firepower through an agile, optimized "high-low mix of combat capabilities."
Caine's remarks came days after Air Force Secretary Troy Meink disclosed Monday that the Space Force operates on-orbit "space control weapons" designed to shield joint forces from hostile adversary actions — the first formal public confirmation of armed US platforms in orbit, coming amid escalating orbital rivalry with China and Russia and continued development of the "Golden Dome" missile defense system.
China condemned the US deployment, stating that Beijing opposes turning outer space into a "war zone" and calling on Washington to halt its orbital military buildup.
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty bars the placement of nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction in orbit, but it stops short of explicitly prohibiting conventional weapons in space.
Caine singled out digital autonomy as the single biggest force reshaping modern warfare, outpacing every other military technology.
"No factor is accelerating change as fast as artificial intelligence and advancing cyber capabilities," he said, adding that "AI is here now, and it's already changing the way militaries see, sense, decide and act."
As an example of how algorithmic integration is reshaping military operations, he pointed to an incident in June off the coast of Oman, where an AI-guided autonomous vessel rescued two US soldiers after their Apache attack helicopter crashed.
"Taken together, these examples from the Strait of Hormuz to the front lines in Ukraine show how quickly technology is changing the character of war," he said.
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