Overview
Air power does not exist in isolation. Integrating across domains and functions allows the ADF to find and exploit opportunities, while mitigating limitations of operating in each domain. However, integration is neither intuitive nor automatic. It requires a deliberate and sustained effort across the human, procedural and technical dimensions. Furthermore, continuous campaigning requires the effects within each domain to align and focus on an integrated force’s desired effects.
Land force’s characteristics of persistence, asymmetry, presence, versatility and value provide the integrated force with access, influence, positional advantage, decision superiority and control. This represents the land force’s principle contribution to a Strategy of Denial against adversaries with advantages in surveillance and reconnaissance, strike weapons, mass and lethality.
