The 2022 Bakhmut fight demonstrated brigades culminate in large-scale combat operations (LSCO) without adequate higher-echelon battle management. The US Army's "Army of 2030" plan is shifting focus to divisions, recognizing their role in synchronizing reconnaissance, fires, maneuver, and sustainment across multiple brigades over extended depth and duration. Ukraine's experience, with brigades operating within a corps-directed framework and later establishing corps-level commands, validates this intermediate echelon's necessity.
Division-centric warfighting centralizes integration for faster brigade action, as brigades alone cannot sustain combat, lacking capacity for operational consequences or complex planning beyond immediate contact. The division's function is the Army’s primary battle-management formation, integrating capabilities, weighting the close fight, protecting the battle system, and managing transitions to prevent brigade culmination and enable sustained combined arms operations.
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