Military Review English Edition January-February 2014 | Page 83

H A R M O N Y I N B AT T L E
teams, close air support, artillery, and mortars. Fullmotion video live feeds provided intelligence and
battlefield damage assessments. During the unit’s
hot wash on the objective area, the company- and
platoon-level leadership were asked what contributed to their success. This question was answered
without hesitation by an infantry platoon leader,
who stated, “we were confident in our abilities,
we’ve been planning, preparing, and rehearsing
for months, and we’ve executed this same type of
scenario in simulation several times over.”

Achieving Harmony on the
Training Field
Achieving harmony on the training field takes considerable time, organizational patience, and careful
preparation. Bringing each weapon system to bear
in an FSCX scenario to appropriately support the
troops on the ground with massed effect 26