At the Army’s Senior Leader Seminar, frustrated generals were talking openly about moving more battlefield communications from DoD networks to commercial ones. Besides availability and reliability, security has been the main bugaboo. …
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CSBA’s Harrison: Budget proposals on the table ignore BCA caps — and history.
CSBA’s Todd Harrison crunched the numbers and found that, if history is any guide, the budget levels prescribed under …
Read more ›Happy AUSA Week! As you head off to the year’s biggest domestic land-warfare convention, don’t miss Paul McCleary’s article about the Army’s attempt to find its way post-Iraq, post-Afghanistan. McCleary talked with …
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120mm mortar
Robert Scales notes that if the six soldiers and Marines who have received the Medal of Honor for heroism in Afghanistan had deployed with some relatively simple and inexpensive gear, …
Read more ›At a conference on “assessing war” — that is, determining whether you’re winning or losing — Mark Stout found himself longing not for the hard drive with 47 terabytes of data on …
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Book excerpt: “F.I.R.E.”
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