Joint Training, JFCOM CDR, GEN Mattis (0930-1015)
GEN Mattis’s briefing had several key points, some of which discussed were Adaptability, Trust, Spirit of Collaboration, and the Human Innovation. On Adaptability, GEN Mattis discussed how we must be fit to fight and cannot allow the enemy to dictate how we fight. He spoke on how we need to make sure we remain dominate yet relevant at the same time. He also mentioned that we are losing our precision dominance and must move toward distributive operations. Trust was an area that GEN Mattis discussed in great length. For the joint community, trust is the point of the realm in joint and coalition operations, and that success and failure are based on the level of trust that is developed between our joint and coalition partners. From a maneuver perspective, GEN Mattis offered that trust allows us to move quickly against the enemy. Another topic for GEN Mattis was the spirit of collaboration. He mentioned that no nation is strong enough to stand on its own and defend the values it hopes to continue. Along those same lines he spoke of the race for the narrative – getting the first word out in the battle of the information age- must be embraced by all leaders and commanders. Questions included use of EW within the Joint and Coalition spectrum, sharing of TTPs with our allies, and how to work interagency issues.

Good discussion on future Coalition warfare and where we are going in the Joint realm.