Joint task force

Here's an image, National Guard near a voting drop box.

A spokesperson for the Joint Task Force overseeing garden members issued a statement saying JTFDC is actively addressing this specific instance and remains fully committed to conducting its missions professionally, lawfully, and with respect for the public's constitutional rights.

You can see them right in front of an official drop box for the Board of Elections in the District of Columbia.

Michael, could this just be an instance of they were standing around, they just happened to be standing around this box?

Um, and so we have...

So we're partnered with JTF four oh one, which is the Pentagon Department of Wars.

Um, so it's a joint interagency task force four oh one.

It's led by, uh, General Matt Ross, Brigadier General Matt Ross.

One of the recent ex- example of that where I find some great synergy was, uh, during the G7 Summit, so Op CADENCE.

So my relationship with the Joint Task Force Brigadier General Rutland and the Land Task Force Commander, like Colonel French, was exceptional.

It was built over six months leading up to the summit.

I needed to travel multiple time from Bagotville to Edmonton in order to create that relationship, and I attended, like, multiple planning meeting.

I saw what was my concern.

Uh, I was able to explain it to them.

The Joint Task Force support component was also present with regards to that, and they were explaining how they will manage their battle space.

And so, uh, that was quite good because that created that positive environment where we were feeling comfortable after that communicating with each other, identify like some concern that we have, and how we were able after that to synchronize all that to deliver the effect for the government of Canada.

National Guard near a voting drop box.

A spokesperson for the Joint Task Force overseeing garden members issued a statement saying JTFDC is actively addressing this specific instance and remains fully committed to conducting its missions professionally, lawfully.

And with respect for the public's constitutional rights, you can see them right in front of an official drop box for the Board of Elections in the District of Columbia.

Michael, could this just be an instance of they were standing around, they just happened to be standing around this box?

We want it across all agencies.

So the Joint Task Force is responsible to coordinate among all the agencies in developing counter-drone.

Joint Interagency Task Force 401.

Okay, General Ross leads that.

We have now signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of North Dakota for this to be essentially the clearinghouse.

So all these companies that want to provide solutions in counter-drone, UND can evaluate them.

We can test them with Grand Sky and at Camp Grafton, and we can assess and provide that feedback to the task force, to this joint task force, so DOW can say, okay, that looks good.

We want that.

The system asked for specifics, altitude, speed, heading, size, and whether there was any evidence of a missile or other hostile intent.

The data feed went directly into the Joint Task Force for the National Security Community's database, where analysts could run radar and optical correlations.

That said, the majority of those logs ended up as unknown entries.

None had an ID that matched the vast library of classified aircraft or known UAVs.

They didn't think so much in terms of levels of war the way we do now, where we talk about strategy and operational art and tactics, and they focused more on what it would mean to be a field army commander or a theater commander.

And in doing that, in focusing on positions, as opposed to saying, "I'm a strategic leader," "I'm a field army commander on, or on a field army staff," or, "I'm on a," what we'd now call a joint task force or a theater command.

And since they did that, they were able to put themselves into the shoes of Grant.

And in doing that, they were able to really bring that unique perspective that only military officers and military professionals really have, because they're putting themselves in that position.

These are not to say laws.

We're good Clausewitzians here, so we don't think of warfare as being dictated by laws, but by principles, principles that generally when applied are effective in helping commanders and staff sort through these types of problems at their appropriate level.

If you're leading with principles and you're writing to understand and to describe principles, the ones that are the most important that you found to be, senior leaders have found to be the most important in their roles as, like I said, field army commanders, joint task force commanders and staffs, theater levels commanders and staff, then you're pretty safe.

When it comes to the specifics, like how those are applied, I think that probably the best way is to stick with, I'm a historian, so I'll have my bias here, but I think it's useful, the historical examples, if it's for an open audience.

And for the last couple of years, that's meant that I've been looking after some of the, uh, LC4, the land communications piece, uh, some of the Land ISR EW piece, uh, and also the desk officer for Land 156.

So, you know, I had the really, really fortunate experience of actually drafting the divisional user requirement for counter-UAS in, in terms of what we think we need, uh, to fulfill a JTF 629 Homeland Security mission.

You're wearing a lot of hats by the sounds of things.

Yeah.

The whole cell was, uh, Reserve, and we all had pretty full jobs daytime and in Reserve.

Yeah.

And, uh, I had a bit of interest, and I said, "Hey, kick that one to me." And that was just as Land 156 was really kicking off as a, as a topic, and we wanted to have, uh, I guess, a seat at the table for the 2nd Division and the JTF 629 construct right from the outset.

So...