“Cross-Domain Synergy -- the complementary vice merely additive employment of capabilities in different domains such that each enhances the effectiveness and compensates for the vulnerabilities of the others -- to establish superiority in some combination of domains that will provide the freedom of action required by the mission.”

— The key thesis of the new Joint Operational Access Concept (JOAC) — here’s betting it will be pronounced JOE-ak and not Joke — from Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (and, amazingly, holder of a master’s degree in English from Duke). h/t Abu Muqawama

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