Per Hyten, in last fall’s war game, “We basically attempted an information-dominance structure, where information was ubiquitous to our forces. approach to warfighting since World War II, with many of the roots extending back to the Civil War. Then add massive levels of intelligence information, command and control, and targeting data to, as the saying goes, “take it downrange.” military is built around massing people, equipment and munitions. “We always aggregate to fight, and aggregate to survive,” said Hyten. By extension, it’s a political problem too, as we’ll address below. In other words, the problem was the entire belief system, architecture and construction of the Pentagon way of doing things - and certainly of waging war. military forms strategic concepts and conducts operations. No, the issue was the very essence of how the U.S. was far beyond the shortcomings of any particular piece of equipment, or ship or airplane, let alone the willingness of U.S. The overarching problem was, basically, everything. forces became sitting ducks and were destroyed piecemeal and systematically. “They knew exactly what we’re going to do before we did it.”Īccording to a Pentagon spokesperson, one key scenario of this wargame involved U.S. “An aggressive red team that had been studying the United States for the last 20 years just ran rings around us,” he said. (You can watch it on YouTube here, about an hour and 18 minutes.) ![]() It’s a think tank run by the National Defense Industrial Association, an industry group focused on military modernization. Hyten spoke at a conference sponsored by the Emerging Technologies Institute. military conducted a major wargame last fall and “it failed miserably,” said U.S. No, the source is no less than a serving, 4-star general whose job title is Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The source for this ultra-defeatist news is not just a teacher at a sailor’s college, sited on a salty bay. should refrain from fighting the next war because we’ve already lost, long before even one shot has been fired. military has suffered an even greater strategic disaster than Afghanistan: an epic military defeat that already occurred, and you likely don’t know a thing about it. But wait, there’s more!īecause America’s loss in Afghanistan has already been overshadowed. There’s a Whiskey tale to tell just based on this anecdote alone. military?Īfter a period of time, one student offered an answer… “Afghanistan?” (And yes, the student’s answer was in the form of a question.)ĭutifully, my professor-friend led the students in a discussion of what happened in a war that began before they were born and whose outcomes will affect them for the rest of their lives. Namely, what was the most recent strategic disaster suffered by the U.S. The other day he was running a class and posed a short (but profound) question to a group of students. I have a friend who teaches at the university level - at a U.S.
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