Soldiers on Point for the Nation.Persuasive in Peace, Invincible in War

THE ARMY-a strategic instrument of national policy that has served our country well in peace and war for more than two centuries. Soldiers enable America to fulfill its world leadership responsibilities of safeguarding our national interests, preventing global calamity and making the world a safer place. They do this by finding peaceful solutions to the frictions between nation states, addressing the problems of human suffering, and when required, fighting and winning our Nation's wars-our nonnegotiable contract with the American people. The Army-is People The magnificence of our moments as an Army will continue to be delivered by our people. They are the engine behind our capabilities, and the soldier remains the centerpiece of our formation. We will continue to attract, train, motivate and retain the most competent and dedicated people in the Nation to fuel our ability to be persuasive in peace and invincible in war. We will assure the Nation's security by equipping, training and caring for our people and their families, and enabling their full potential as individuals. The Army will be a professionally rewarding and personally enriching environment within which people take pride in being part of the Nation's most highly esteemed institution. Our physical, moral and mental competence will give us the strength, the confidence and the will to fight and win anywhere, anytime. We will be trained and ready to do anything the American People ask us to do, and we will do it better, faster and more affordably. In the process, we will provide the inspired leadership that celebrates our soldiers and nurtures their families, trains for decisive victories and demonstrates responsible stewardship for the national treasure entrusted to us-our men and women in uniform and the resources to make them successful. The Army-Strategic Dominance Across the Entire Spectrum of Operations The world remains a dangerous place full of authoritarian regimes and criminal interests whose combined influence extends the envelope of human suffering by creating haves and have-nots. They foster an environment for extremism and the drive to acquire asymmetric capabilities and weapons of mass destruction. They also fuel an irrepressible human demand for freedom and a greater sharing of the better life. The threats to peace and stability are numerous, complex, oftentimes linked and sometimes aggravated by natural disaster. The spectrum of likely operations describes a need for land forces in joint, combined and multinational formations for a variety of missions extending from humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to peacekeeping and peacemaking to major theater wars, including conflicts involving the potential use of weapons of mass destruction. The Army will be responsive and dominant at every point on that spectrum. We will provide to the Nation an array of deployable, agile, versatile, lethal, survivable and sustainable formations, which are affordable and capable of reversing the conditions of human suffering rapidly and resolving conflicts decisively. The Army's deployment is the surest sign of America's commitment to accomplishing any mission that occurs on land. Responsive. Responsiveness has the quality of time, distance and sustained momentum. Our threat of the use of force, if it deters miscalculation by adversaries, provides a quality of responsiveness all its own. We will provide strategic responsiveness through forward-deployed forces, forward positioned capabilities, engagement, and, when called, through force projection from the Continental United States or any other location where needed capabilities reside. Wherever soldiers serve, we are part of the Nation's solution to its tremendous world leadership responsibilities. Deployable. We will develop the capability to put combat force anywhere in the world in 96 hours after lift-off-in brigade combat teams for both stability and support operations and for warfighting. …