DoD’s leaders recently identified autonomy and artificial intelligence technologies as the core elements of what they believe our new overmatch will be….But before the Third Offset flies too far, we need to ask the critical question: whether we are soaring in the right direction.
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What America’s Big New Defense Plan Gets Wrong
Posted June 2nd, 2016 at 12:09 pm (UTC-5)
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America’s Military is Getting Deadly Serious about China, Russia, and North Korea
Posted February 10th, 2016 at 2:39 pm (UTC-5)
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The Third Offset Strategy is about retaining America’s lead in military power in the face of potential challenges by Russia, China, North Korea and others. The strategy takes aim at enemy vulnerabilities and weak spots with plans to exploit them in wartime.
The Army We Have. The Army We Need.
Posted December 22nd, 2015 at 3:12 pm (UTC-5)
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Most of those running for president say more must be done to defeat ISIS. And more usually equals more military might. In the United States, military service is a choice, not a requirement. While all men must register with the Selective Service System at age 18, there has not been a military draft in 42 years. But that has not stopped some from suggesting its return, for reasons ranging from raising the competency level of the military to improving the country’s social fabric. Many argue that compulsory service would make politicians think twice about going to war. Does the U.S. has the military it needs? And what are the needs of the military it has?
Force 2025 and Beyond: How the Army is Preparing for Its Future
Posted July 31st, 2015 at 2:21 pm (UTC-5)
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Global instability, coupled with the reduction in military capabilities of many of our allies, has emboldened potential adversaries and magnified the risk to U.S. interests around the world. The Army is meeting this challenge — to change itself and improve land power capabilities — through a strategy called Force 2025 and Beyond.
For the U.S. Army, It’s Not About the Story
[T]he problem is a fundamental disagreement about what current and future warfare entails. It is a disagreement over how to design military forces to achieve desired strategic and political outcomes within resource constraints and trade-offs. It is a disagreement over the theory of warfare…