MAJ Scott Hall – Synchronizing Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) Effects: Putting the Commander Back in Control
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opinions or policies of the Department of the Army, Army Cyber Command, the
Information Professionals Association, or Strategic Resilience Group.
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During this iteration, MAJ Scott Hall, a United States Army Information Officer (FA30)
and Chief of the Influence Branch, U.S. Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER) presented
his work titled “Converged Non-Lethal Effects and Non-Kinetic Activity Operations”
published via the Small Wars Journal.
https://smallwarsjournal.com/2025/09/25/synchronizing-multi-domain-operations-non-lethal-effects/
Thank you to the nine members of the gallery that joined Strategic Resilience Group
(SRG) in the conduct of its bi-weekly virtual writing lab and discussion forum.
A career Armor officer and IO planner, he has held key leadership positions at the
platoon, company, squadron, and division levels, as well as strategic and operational
assignments with U.S. Army Europe, NATO, and ARCYBER. His work focuses on
advancing strategic information advantage by integrating non-lethal and non-kinetic
activities and enabling multi-domain operations. He has been published in the Cavalry
and Armor Journal, has appeared on The Cognitive Crucible podcast, and has
presented at the Information Professionals Association’s INFOPAC conference.
MAJ Hall developed this article and proposed a solution because he identified a gap by
watching commanders lose operational tempo due to a lack of integration across
multiple domains and associated capabilities. In the process of peeling back the onion
in previous assignments he started to notice a bit of “blindness” with regards to the
information domain. Despite our best efforts to educate the forces about the integration
of Non-Lethal Effects (NLE) and Non-Kinetic Activities (NKA) we are still unable to “bake
them into” our plans and operations efforts.
His proposed solution is a series of effects application sequences (development, firing,
time of flight) and terminates within an “Effects Convergence Windows” that provides
overlapping NKA and NLE operational frameworks across time and space. This
proposal identifies and illustrates the “unseen tail of alignment that must be in place
before and effect is fired” and easily aligned with Joint Planning, Military Decision
Making, and other domain specific planning processes. To be successful it is dependent
on multifunctional planning teams leading and participating in detailed war games and
rehearsal of concept (ROC) drills.
MAJ Hall’s entire presentation with Q&A session can be found at this link.