Winning the Deep Fight: Why We Should Return to Echeloned Reconnaissance and Security - Modern...

"Looking toward future campaigns of similar scale and intensity, the US Army should learn from its successes in 1991 and prioritize the fielding of reconnaissance and security forces with cross-domain capabilities. This means clearly recognizing the current dilemmas that corps and divisions, now bereft of the dedicated capabilities once provided by ACRs and DIVCAVs, negotiate when echeloning non-habitual reconnaissance forces to shape conditions in deep areas for attacking brigade combat teams. Such missions are too difficult to be considered tasks that any unit can perform well with a little practice; rather, they require dedicated formations with unique skills and capabilities. The requirement for contested information collection in non-permissive environments will only become more acute as peer adversaries and regional aggressors refine and improve anti-access and area denial defenses."