Wargame Predicts Army Loses High Tech Edge

Wargame Predicts Army Loses High Tech Edge
Wargame Predicts Army Loses High Tech Edge

ARMY WAR COLLEGE: A massive wargame held here this week to explore the “Deep Future” of warfare in the 2030s demonstrated a stark truth — one that Clausewitz enumerated in his famous work, On War — there’s no substitute for sheer numbers, no matter how much high technology the Army buys. That’s an unsettling answer at a…

The Fiddler Crab Effect: State, AID, NSC Can’t Keep Up With DoD

The Fiddler Crab Effect: State, AID, NSC Can’t Keep Up With DoD
The Fiddler Crab Effect: State, AID, NSC Can’t Keep Up With DoD

[UPDATED with Gen. Hayden’s comments] Frantic diplomacy seems to have forestalled US military action in Syria – for now. But we stumbled into negotiations at the last minute, only after President Obama had threatened strikes and asked for a vote authorizing the use of force, when Secretary of State John Kerry made an off-the-cuff, off-message…

Why The Army Matters: Human Factors And Killing

Why The Army Matters: Human Factors And Killing
Why The Army Matters: Human Factors And Killing

FORT BELVOIR: The intellectual ice is beginning to break. You could see it at the Fort Belvoir Officers’ Club on Tuesday afternoon, where the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) hosted a three-day, tri-service conference on “Strategic Landpower.” The US Army is wrestling with how to stay relevant once large-scale counterinsurgency in Afghanistan comes to…