America’s First Corps, I Corps, is the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s assigned Army operational command. It has a unique requirement to define how an Army corps must train for, compete with and, if necessary, fight and win a conflict with America’s pacing challenge—China.
Army doctrine defines the corps’ role as setting conditions for divisions to maneuver by employing joint capabilities, maintaining the tempo of operations through sustainment and other rear operations, and defeating enemy midrange fires. Warfighter Exercise 23-1, conducted from Sept. 24 to Oct. 3, was the Army’s first...