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Army picks two companies to build prototypes for a new cannon-toting vehicle to back up infantry My comment: The Army is pursuing a 1942 tactical solution to contemporary warfare. Providing light infantry with light tanks was a desperate measure in 1942 to make up for a lack of firepower and protection. It did not work …
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Drowning in the Military Swamp This Marine officer got out, but he left a dysfunctional, sclerotic bureaucracy behind. EXTRACTS: …company commanders had to fit 297 days of mandatory training into 256 available training days. …is it reasonable now to maintain nearly 160 golf courses across the world when less than half of Marine aircraft can …
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Europe’s new regional defense ANALYSIS/OPINION: It’s official. Europe will soon have its own army and, presumably, its own regional defense. At least that is the stated goal of French President Emmanuel Macron. Mr. Macron is restating a position that German Chancellor Angela Merkel adopted some time ago that, “We Europeans must really take our destiny …
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All Arms Warfare in the 21st Century Subcommittee: SUBCOMMITTEE ON AIRLAND Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 Time: 03:30 PM Location: Room SR-232A, Russell Senate Office Building Colonel Douglas A. Macgregor, USA (Ret.) Executive Vice President of the Burke-Macgregor Group Download Testimony
The U.S. Army May Have Prepared for the Wrong War On February 7, Vice Chief of Staff for the Army Gen. Daniel Allyn stated that only three of fifty-eight combat brigades in the U.S. Army were sufficiently trained for wartime deployment, blaming the condition on sequestration. It is not the lack of money, however, that …
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