Noah at Danger Room: The Army is working on a $200 billion modernization program called Future Combat Systems, or FCS. The plan is to remake the entire force, pretty much from top to bottom -- how units are organized, how they communicate, how they attack...
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A bunch of people ask some really interesting questions in these two threads, questions that I think are deserving on their own post.lemuel pitkin writes:I think if you reframe the.
Via Noah at Danger Room comes this: "The poobahs are worried that 'the new emphasis on... counterinsurgency may be undermining conventional [big war] capabilities.'""The major concern is, while we're doing.
From Armed Forces Journal, Lt. Colonel Paul Yingling. Apparently, this has been making the rounds inside the USMC. It's surprising and impressive to see an LTC aim the guns at his superiors. After failing to visualize the conditions of combat in Iraq, America's generals failed...