Three four-star US Army generals this week weighed in with their opinions about finding the right balance between conventional and high-tech munitions – but the answers aren’t easy.
By Ashley RoqueA trio of new longer range missiles could also be in soldiers’ hands over the next dozen months.
By Ashley Roque“My brigade combat team was responsible for a third of Iraq, hell, everything from drinking chai to chasing Iranians. That’s not the future,” said Army Futures Command Gen. James Rainey.
By Ashley RoqueTo operate in the Pacific, “we have to grow beyond the 20th-century Cold War model that we needed with big bases,” Gen. Charles Flynn told Breaking Defense. “Our future concept is agile, it’s distributed, it’s networked, it’s mobile. And it’s integrated with our allies and partners in the region, because we gain by being able to enable them.”
By Andrew Eversden“The point is, that it is Asia that is the prize. We call it the Pacific, but Asia is the prize,” argues Maj. Gen. Brad Gericke, the Army’s director for strategy, plans and policy. “And that’s where power, that’s where economic, military social informational power is going to primarily emanate from over the next century.”
By Colin ClarkThe Army is developing a new Regionally Aligned Readiness & Modernization Model (REARRM) to prepare its forces for great power competition, with different units tailoring their training and equipment to specific foes and theaters.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The Army is experimentally consolidating all kinds of data to the cloud, from unit mobilization updates to target locations – without waiting for the long-delayed JEDI program.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.More collective defense cooperation will be on display at the massive AUSA 2019 conference, attended by 92 different nations, including the chief generals of 13 armies.
By Paul McLearyARLINGTON: “We needed to learn to speak infantry,” said Col. William Hartman, commander of the Army’s first offensive cyber operations brigade. That’s not easy. When one of Hartman’s teams joined a brigade of the 25th Infantry Division for an exercise this spring, the colonel recounted, the 25th’s commanding general told Hartman that his cyber operators…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.